"The Beauty of Lines" Exhibition

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Fragment of the Photograph: "Book with Wavy Pages", 2001 © Abelardo Morell. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery- New York and Zurich. Photo Courtesy of Foto Colectania.

The Beauty of Lines presents a selection of masterpieces from the history of photography, part of the collection of Sondra Gilman and Celso González-Falla. Based in New York, it includes over 1500 original prints by some of the greatest photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through visual confrontations, the visitor is invited to experience the power of the photographic line through these sublime works. The photographs by Robert Adams, Walker Evans, Rineke Dijkstra, Man Ray, Berenice Abbott and Lee Friedlander, among others, thus resonate, beyond their historical temporality and geographic considerations, by their formal correspondences.

Throughout history, photographers have always oscillated between two extremes: the mimetic illusion of reality and the enhancement of the aesthetic qualities of the image. Whether it be “instantaneous lines,” according to the expression of Henri Cartier-Bresson, rational lines inspired from New Topographics, or the diversity of the curved lines of the human body, the line structures and sometimes reinvents the real–to the point of abstraction.

In the case of photography, spectators, even the most discriminating, often first observe the world that they are presented with. They scrutinize the face or the landscape, they marvel at the details, the fashionable clothes, the expressions on the children’s faces. In other words, they can forget that they are actually looking at a piece of paper, as flat as a page in a book or a drawing. Fascinated by the mimetic illusion, they might not even see the lines–straight, curved, oblique–that actually form the basis of the photographic composition.

Gallery opening on June 20, 2019 at 20:00. 

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