La Dama, 2005 © 2006 Robert Mann Gallery res Conatus The Argentine artist res, working with collaborator Constanza Piaggio, has produced a remarkable new series entitled "Conatus". Each piece is a painstaking recreation of an iconic piece of western art by painters such as Velazquez, da Vinci, and Picasso. In the process of translating the original work from canvas to photograph, res makes unexpected alterations that reinterpret and recontextualize the subject and its themes through contemporary perspectives on spirituality, philosophy, politics, and the centuries-old process of image-making. The resulting large-scale photographs are powerful and brooding, yet strangely beautiful, like fragments of a dream that one struggles to remember. The artist was born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1957. He studied photography in the School of Arte Lino E. Spilimbergo (Córdoba) and in Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico D.F.). He currently lives in Buenos Aires. Exhibition: October 19 - November 25, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11am - 6pm Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue (between 24th & 25th Streets, Floor 10) USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 989 7600 Fax +1 212 989 2947 www.robertmann.com |
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