Olivier, Quartier Vienot, Marseille, July 21, 2000 C-Print, Edition of 10 49-5/8 x 42-1/8" / 126 x 107 cm Rineke Dijkstra Marian Goodman Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. This will be her second solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist will present a new series of works in the South Gallery, developed in continuum over the past three years, in which transitional moments in young lives and the incremental passageway to adulthood are seen via young soldiers in military training. The show will include portraits of a French Foreign Legion officer, known as "Olivier", at precise moments in intensive training in France and Africa: from his first day in the Foreign Legion in July 2000 in Aubagne (near Marseilles), to the moment when he is sent out into various parts of the world - Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Djibouti in 2003. About this group of works, a selection of which were first seen in a debut exhibition in 2001 at The Art Institute of Chicago, the artist writes: "In my work I look for specific characteristics of individual people within group settings…. military service implies that one has to submit to a collective identity. There is always a tension, however, between the values of the individual and the values of the community. I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and the vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes and gestures." Rineke Dijkstra's work has encompassed numerous series which capture the subject at a decisive moment of transition, often apprehending the rite of passage of adolescence, and rendering it in full frontal portraits which define the shift to incipient adulthood or the interval, whether physical or psychological, between changing identities. Rineke Dijkstra was born in Sittard, The Netherlands, in 1959. She attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, from 1981-1986. She has received numerous awards, including The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, 1998; the Werner Mantz Award, 1994; the Art Encouragement Award Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 1993; and the Nomination for Young European Photographers, 1990. September 10 - October 11, 2003 Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am - 6 pm Marian Goodman Gallery 24 West 57th Street USA-New York 10019, NY Phone +1 212 977 71 60 Fax +1 212 581 51 87 E-Mail: goodman@mariangoodman.com www.mariangoodman.com |
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