Nick Brandt
Galerie Edwynn Houk Zurich is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Nick Brandt (b. 1964, London, United Kingdom) opening on Thursday, May 26. The occasion marks the artist鈥檚 first presentation at the gallery鈥檚 Zurich location and follows the well-received exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery New York of Brandt鈥檚 most recent series Inherit the Dust. For Brandt鈥檚 Zurich presentation, we are pleased to present a special selection of the artist鈥檚 earlier photographs from the series Across The Ravaged Land.
With these large-scale sepia toned images Nick Brandt pays homage to the impressive animals native to Kenya鈥檚 expansive landscape. Working for weeks on location in the African savanna, Brandt studies his subjects through the lens of a medium format film camera, just as carefully and considered as one would construct a portrait in a studio setting. He spends days with each animal and waits for a moment of connection, the decisive moment, when everything moves into place and the subject鈥檚 individual character is captured in a perfectly composed scene. This approach is particularly evident in the large-scale portrait of one of Brant鈥檚 favorite subjects, Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli, on view in the exhibition.
Likened to the iconic and emotive portraits of Richard Avedon, Brandt achieves a similar intimacy with his own more unpredictable subjects. John Berger鈥檚 seminal essay Why Look at Animals examines humanity鈥檚 perception of superiority over the animal kingdom as a result of mankind鈥檚 observation of animals without the acknowledgment that they may also be observing us. Through his own work, Brandt in turn subverts this idea by presenting the animals of Kenya looking back at the viewers, not as inferiors but as fellow sentient creatures.
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Galerie Edwynn Houk Zurich is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Nick Brandt (b. 1964, London, United Kingdom) opening on Thursday, May 26. The occasion marks the artist鈥檚 first presentation at the gallery鈥檚 Zurich location and follows the well-received exhibition at Edwynn Houk Gallery New York of Brandt鈥檚 most recent series Inherit the Dust. For Brandt鈥檚 Zurich presentation, we are pleased to present a special selection of the artist鈥檚 earlier photographs from the series Across The Ravaged Land.
With these large-scale sepia toned images Nick Brandt pays homage to the impressive animals native to Kenya鈥檚 expansive landscape. Working for weeks on location in the African savanna, Brandt studies his subjects through the lens of a medium format film camera, just as carefully and considered as one would construct a portrait in a studio setting. He spends days with each animal and waits for a moment of connection, the decisive moment, when everything moves into place and the subject鈥檚 individual character is captured in a perfectly composed scene. This approach is particularly evident in the large-scale portrait of one of Brant鈥檚 favorite subjects, Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli, on view in the exhibition.
Likened to the iconic and emotive portraits of Richard Avedon, Brandt achieves a similar intimacy with his own more unpredictable subjects. John Berger鈥檚 seminal essay Why Look at Animals examines humanity鈥檚 perception of superiority over the animal kingdom as a result of mankind鈥檚 observation of animals without the acknowledgment that they may also be observing us. Through his own work, Brandt in turn subverts this idea by presenting the animals of Kenya looking back at the viewers, not as inferiors but as fellow sentient creatures.
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