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Art News:
Please join us:
Thursday, September
16,
6 to 8 PM
south gallery
for
the OPENING
of:
Ruud
van Empel
Generation
Photographs
September 16 - October 23, 2010
Generation 2, 2010, Chromogenic Print, Dibond, Plexiglass, 49 x 130 in
(124 x 330)
Ruud van Empel has become
well known for his explorations of childhood and innocence, placing uncanny
youngsters in a variety of Edenic settings. In the new series entitled
Generation, he has followed these children to school, as it were, in two large
panoramas presenting them in the format of the class photo, lined up in
ascending rows against a simple backdrop. These children are entering a period
of profound disruption nearing the age of puberty, a key life passage that has
also served as a locus of interest for artists from Diane Arbus to Rineke
Dijkstra. While the children all face forward, their gazes vary, at times
seeming uncomfortable with the prospect of meeting that of the camera/viewer. It
is this almost existential discomfort-displaced to the empathetic viewer-that
gives these works their fundamental charge, opening them up to more active
emotional investment/engagement. In the mold of August Sander, one of van
Empel's stated influences, these young adolescents are seen as universal types,
but in a way that allows for deeper insight into the humanity of both their
situation, and of our own.
Ruud van Empel has exhibited in major
museums and galleries around the world with exhibitions at the Groninger Museum,
Netherlands; Torch Gallery, Amsterdam; TZR Galerie, Dusseldorf; The Chelsea Art
Museum, NYC; Museum of Photographic Arts, CA; Art Cologne, Germany; Museum de
Valkhof, Netherlands; The George Eastman House, NY; Galeria Berini, Barcelona;
Quatrieme Biennale Internationale, Belgium; Frisia Museum, Netherlands. CB
Collection, Tokyo, and at the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf,
Germany.
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