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Linda
Salerno
A Selection of Experimental Photographs from the BLACK MIRROR
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Curated by Allen Frame & Martin Kunz
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Linda Salerno
January 14 – February 26, 2011
Opening
Reception: Friday, January 14, from 6 – 8
pm
This exhibit is in conjunction with the release of Linda Salerno,
published by Charta Art Books, distributed by D.A.P. and available at CCNY.
The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to present the exhibition,
Linda Salerno, Selections from the Black Mirror Series, curated by Allen
Frame and Martin Kunz, opening Friday, January 14th, 6-8pm. The series was first
presented in 2009 in Switzerland at Officinaarte in Magliaso/Lugano. A catalogue
for that exhibition is now being released by Charta Art Books and distributed by
D.A.P. and will be celebrated at the opening
reception.
In her Black Mirror Series of experimental large-scale photographs,
Salerno creates a sensual journey through a visionary landscape. Her own
self-portrait figure guides the viewer through a lush terrain of dream and
memory. A complex blending of painting and photography techniques, these images
have less in common with the photographic self-portrait tradition of Claude
Cahun and Cindy Sherman that emphasizes identity and women’s roles, than
with the cinematic precedent of Maya Deren, which ventures into ritual and the
unconscious. First of all, the self-portrait figures are not frontal; they are
mostly seen from the back or side, as the protagonist leads us through an
enigmatic world of metamorphosis, down pathways through foliage or across a
terrain shared by fish. With her long hair and full skirt, she is an alluring
figure, a spirit to follow in a trance-like
state.
Salerno, a painter for many years, grew up in Pennsylvania, moved to New York,
and lived there until eight years ago when she moved to the Ticino area of
Switzerland. Her studio is in Lugano. Salerno’s previous series of
paintings, Le Moniteur de la Mode, was presented at The Classroom at
PS122 in New York in 2006, (also curated by Allen Frame). In those paintings,
she depicted 19th century female figures positioned in an abstracted landscape
of botanical motifs. In her Black Mirror Series, she continues her
investigation of nature and its cycles of effulgence and decay. Selections from
both series are being exhibited currently in Basel at
balzerArtprojects.
The CCNY exhibition will travel to Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome in the fall of
2011, marking the second collaboration between CCNY and the Centro Di Sarro. In
2010 an exhibition of the experimental 70’s photographs of Italian painter
Luigi Di Sarro was presented at CCNY, also curated by Allen Frame, a
photographer who has been the curator of exhibitions in New York at Art in
General and PS122
Gallery.
Martin Kunz, co-curator of Salerno’s exhibition, was Director of the
Kunstmuseum Lucerne from 1977-1989, where he curated over 150 exhibitions mainly
of contemporary artists. In 1993 he founded and directed the New York Kunsthalle
where he introduced artists such as Doug Aitken, Nancy Rubins, and Dan Peterman,
and presented special projects with Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, and Louise
Bourgeois. From 2004-2006 he was Director of the Ascona Museum of Modern Art in
Switzerland. He is editor of Charta Art Books’ Linda Salerno, which
contains Salerno’s Black Mirror
Series.
Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday 12–6
pm
CCNY
is celebrating over 125 years serving the photographic and art community through
this and upcoming exhibitions, lectures, and special events. For more
information, contact John Stanley at
info@cameraclubny.org or by phone at
212-260-9927.
Please visit us at:
The
Camera Club of New York
336 West 37th Street, Second Floor
(between 8th and
9th
Avenues)
New York, New York 10018
212.260.9927
www.cameraclubny.org
info@cameraclubny.org
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