CAMERA WORK Gallery is now representing the photographic artist Dean West. As his main representative in Europe, the gallery will work closely with the artist and present a major solo exhibition of the artist from June 8 to August 17, 2024.
Dean West was born in Australia in 1983 and studied at the renowned Queensland College of Art. Influenced by the diversity of the visual arts, he has been particularly guided by the oeuvre of Stan Douglas and Jeff Wall as well as David Hockney and Edward Hopper. At the same time, the artist has developed and defined his own visual language: precisely choreographed scenes that have a high recognition value thanks to the deliberate use of symmetry and ideal lighting effects, and are effective due to a strictly composed image structure. West sees photography as an artistic epoch and as a medium of contemporary communication with which he is able to realize his artistic vision with technical and aesthetic perfection.
Dean West works serially and deals with seemingly everyday events, character studies and atmospheric landscapes in his photography, which oden go beyond natural reality and result in complex narratives. In his works, the artist reflects profoundly on social issues, cultures and social relationships. West describes these by means of scenes that initially appear surreally beautiful, and whose multi-layered content is successively revealed to the viewer.
The multi-award-winning artist’s work has been exhibited in major museums and art institutions around the world, including the Columbus Museum of Art (2012), the Discovery Times Square Museum in New York City (2014), the Faneuil Hall Museum in Boston (2015), and the Expo Porte De Versailles in Paris (2015). West is considered one of the most promising artists of his generation. His works are part of important collections of contemporary art and are represented in The Møller Collection and the collection of Sir Elton, among others.
Dean West
from June 8 to August 17, 2024
CAMERA WORK
Kantstrasse 149
10623 Berlin · Germany
telephone: +49 (0)30 310077-73
www.camerawork.de
