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Eleni Koroneou Gallery: Lina Bertucci "Ethereal Wave" - 18 Nov 2011 to 28 Jan 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Lina Bertucci, Danielle, 2011
chromogenetic print 127 x 101 cm, edition of 6 + 2AP |
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Lina Bertucci "Ethereal Wave" 18 November 2011 - 28 January 2012 Eleni Koroneou Gallery is pleased to present the recent work of the American photographer Lina Bertucci in her forth solo exhibition. Lina Bertucci lives and works in New York. The artistic practice of Berucci begun in the end of the 80’s with a series of black and white photographs that show people from the narrow enviroment of the artist, focusing on the romantisim and aesthesisim of that period in New York. Beginning of the 90’s Bertucci created a new series with the title “Other Voices Other Rooms”. She photographed numerous New York artists early in their careers, including Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriel Orozco, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Payton and Wolfgang Tillmans. Using the emerging artist as her subject, she creates a body of work, which captures the artist and reveals his unique psychology. These portraits collectively present a curious context of contemporary artists and New York City as their common affiliation. In her previous work with the title “Women in the Tattoo subculture” (2007), shown in 2009 at the Gallery, Lina Bertucci photographically investigated tattoo art. Through the exploration of the world of tattoos, she discovered how the vampire archetype has entered the collective unconscious of many cultures: a metaphor for the clash between the forces of life and death, of good and evil, it represents the collective fears of sex, death and the desire of eternal youth. In the current show “Ethereal Wave” Lina Bertucci presents her new work, a two channel video installation and a series of photographs, portraying the youth culture in the “Ethereal Dark Wave” New York scene, made up by people obsessed with the myth of vampires. This work reveals how this extraordinary myth encloses and manifests the most profound fears and the most obscure desires of many young Americans, playing on their primeval anxiety of loosing their vital energy. For “Ethereal Wave” videos, the artist asked some young people encountered in New York clubs to simply look into the camera for approximately two minutes with very little instruction other that to fix the gaze at the viewer behind the lens. Quoting Lina Bertucci: "As a photographer investigating fringe society, dark wave culture reflects a collective darkness – an aspect of the psyche, the shadow nature, seldom visibly observed. The work itself is the product of my research, through the eye of a camera, for that which reconnects the self and the whole. Emerging from the dark caverns of this subterranean culture, one comes to see a much deeper awakening within our own human nature. What on the surface may seem like a group of young Goth kids trying to be different, find acceptance, dabble in the forbidden or seek individuality is in essence a quest that, sometimes unbeknownst to oneself, is at the heart of our collective need for an internal touchstone, self acceptance and love. On a personal level, as a photographer, it is through the camera that I am compelled to look at the human condition in such a way that is impossible with the naked eye. The camera lens enables me to unearth my unconscious to capture an image and reflect it back to a viewer, not only in the hopes that they will see "the other" but perhaps, that they will see the other in themselves". |
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