21 Feb 2008 to 22 Mar 2008
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Reception Thursday, February 21, 6-8 p.m.
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Dirk Braeckman A.D.F.-S.B.1-03, 2003 gelatin silver print, 71 x 47 in
Dirk Braeckman February 21 through March 22, 2008 Reception Thursday, February 21, 6-8 p.m.
Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of the artist Dirk Braeckman. The show includes photographs from his z.Z(t).I and z.Z(t).II series in addition to recent work.
Braeckman�s photographs, the majority of them in black and white, focus on abstract spaces, domestic interiors and other loci of the built environment. The subtle range of tone and the extraordinary matte surface of his gelatin silver prints give these images an enigmatic presence. Flatness and depth become difficult to discern, paradoxical. A dining room seems three dimensional but it is powerfully unified in tone. A figure appears to have been captured in real life but may in reality be a photograph of a photograph. The effect of a flash upon a wall throws our perception into pleasurable disarray.
Braeckman�s lens focuses on the details in a corner, on a body, on a specific interior or a sterile public space. Yet the effect is anything but confining. Printed large scale in lush tonality, the photographs have both an expansive and tactile quality.
Braeckman concentrates on the personal and the tentative. He says, �To me, it�s about sensing and playing on certain photographic conditions�the frame, the ephemerality of an exposure, the way one reads black & white or color, the blurriness, the light.�
Dirk Braeckman was born in 1958 in Eeklo, Belgium. He was commissioned to make portraits of the Belgian King Albert and Queen Paola which are permanently installed along with other of his works in the Royal Palace in Brussels. Braeckman�s photographs have been shown in a retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) in Ghent. His recent solo shows were at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery in Athens, Greece and at the DuPont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. He lives and works in Ghent.
