Dietmar Busse: The Life of Birds
FIERMAN presents The Lives of Birds, Dietmar Busse鈥檚 fourth solo show with the gallery. Busse has established himself as a singular voice in the world of photography, from his fashion and editorial work to his intimately staged self-portraits and relentless pursuit of darkroom chemical experimentation.
His latest photographs and camera-less chemical paintings depict poetic fragments of a family tableaux: a mother, father and child in degrees of bucolic splendor and unspeakable darkness. Busse鈥檚 images are both archetypal and autobiographical, as he imbues photography鈥檚 truth-telling potential with feverish emotional transparency. A story teller at heart, Busse engages his own family narrative to explore universal truths.
Central to the show are new photographic self-portraits. The artist鈥檚 painted form covered in flowers hovers between peacock and shrinking violet, display and camouflage. The photographs re-stage Busse鈥檚 performative self-portraits from 1999-2003, My Life as a Flower. Vintage Polaroids from My Life as a Flower are concurrently on view at CLAMP opening Friday May 9 and running through July 3.
A suite of new bird portraits and paintings of flowers complete the sylvan scene. Busse鈥檚 birds are rendered in close-up with deft brushwork, colorful plumage on full display, eyes beseeching the viewer鈥檚 gaze with anthropomorphic urgency. The bird portraits carry the same emotional transparency he captures in his formal, sitting-based photographic portraits.
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FIERMAN presents The Lives of Birds, Dietmar Busse鈥檚 fourth solo show with the gallery. Busse has established himself as a singular voice in the world of photography, from his fashion and editorial work to his intimately staged self-portraits and relentless pursuit of darkroom chemical experimentation.
His latest photographs and camera-less chemical paintings depict poetic fragments of a family tableaux: a mother, father and child in degrees of bucolic splendor and unspeakable darkness. Busse鈥檚 images are both archetypal and autobiographical, as he imbues photography鈥檚 truth-telling potential with feverish emotional transparency. A story teller at heart, Busse engages his own family narrative to explore universal truths.
Central to the show are new photographic self-portraits. The artist鈥檚 painted form covered in flowers hovers between peacock and shrinking violet, display and camouflage. The photographs re-stage Busse鈥檚 performative self-portraits from 1999-2003, My Life as a Flower. Vintage Polaroids from My Life as a Flower are concurrently on view at CLAMP opening Friday May 9 and running through July 3.
A suite of new bird portraits and paintings of flowers complete the sylvan scene. Busse鈥檚 birds are rendered in close-up with deft brushwork, colorful plumage on full display, eyes beseeching the viewer鈥檚 gaze with anthropomorphic urgency. The bird portraits carry the same emotional transparency he captures in his formal, sitting-based photographic portraits.
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