27 Oct 2007 to 22 Dec 2007
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Reception : October 27, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles, CA
California
North America
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The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present Re-Construction, a new series by German photographer Lukas Roth. This is Roth�s first solo exhibition in the U.S. This exhibition opens Saturday, October 27 and runs through December 22, 2007. A reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is located at 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, just west of Fairfax. For information call (323) 937-0765 or visit our website at paulkopeikingallery.com
In my work, I try to make pictures out of phenomenon of perception that cannot be directly photographed. Our perception starts with the act of physical seeing. This information of the eye is transferred to the brain, where it is processed, filtered and interpreted, before being �saved� as memory. By the means of digital image processing, I try to reconstruct this personal impression or vision of a place into an apparently normal or straight picture, so that it will be perceptible by the spectator as directly as possible. --Lukas Roth
The view of a landscape, or any space, provides the viewer with an extensive image of a particular spatial condition and the occurrences that take place within it. Once the viewer decides to make use of a camera to capture a moment too precious to be left undocumented, one will find upon viewing the resulting photograph that the formatting and perspective differ significantly from what is seen. This difference between what we see and what can be captured with a camera, is the subject of Lukas Roth�s series, �Re-Construction.�
In order for Roth to create his photograph, he takes hundreds of digital pictures of one location or subject. He then creates an image that incorporates various elements from the hundreds of digital images and seamlessly recomposing them in a constructed image that more closely resembles what was seen by the naked eye. Roth creates idealized spatial concepts that rely on radically manipulating perspectives, axes, sizes and proportions. It is in the process of viewing that the viewer may unzip Roth�s bag of tricks, tracking down all of the artist�s visible computer-graphical manipulations become a game of obsessive viewing.
