Guggenheim
Laurent
Dequick
Über das Werk :
Guggenheim
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum situated on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York. Opened in 21/10/1959, this museum’s collections are exclusively dedicated to non-figurative art. Designed as a shell to house modern art, the interior and exterior architecture of the building is revolutionary. The museum space has a helix structure where the visitor reaches the top first of all, then progressively descends until the ground level by a slightly inclined ramp: the exhibition room notion disappears therefore in favour of the continuity of presentation. This helix structure is found on the outside façade. Dequick pays tribute to this unusual museum conception with his photographic processing dedicated to the Guggenheim. He takes several photos that he superimposes. The iconographic repetition of the helix structure lends movement to the ensemble. The building seems to soar into the air in a vortex.
Über den Künstler :
Laurent
Dequick
This 40 year old photographer is an architect by profession. There are
signs of this in his work as it is first of all a reflection on
contemporary cities and more specifically about the proliferation of
modern urban space. Laurent Dequick’s purpose is to accurately convey an
impression of frenzy which results from a density of population and
activity in urban areas:
“Along the streets, the lights, the
noise, the traffic, the swarms of pedestrians, the blend of smells, are
so fascinating that no single shot can entirely capture it. Do choices
have to be made? I don’t think so; I don’t want to…”
To translate this urban life “congestion” into an image, the
photographer does not shy away from the juxtaposition, superposition or
inlaying of shots. With the same intensity he overlaps photographs
representing architectural complexes, main traffic routes and people. He
condenses the images like the city condenses the sum of its
inhabitants’ lives. Dequick’s style is reminiscent of cubism in its
execution close to abstraction and in his representation of permanent
movement.
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Kartei von Laurent Dequick - 7 Werk(e)