Galerie XII Los Angeles presents the exhibition Mona Kuhn : The Schindler House, A Love Affair, it includes photography, multimedia and sound installation. The live event was a real success, with 500+ people coming thru to see the large scale projections and the musicians playing live to the multichannel 12 min video projections.
Mona Kuhn’s portraits visualize an uncanny love story. The enigmatic subject of Kuhn’s solarized pictures is a fictional, ethereal figure inspired by a letter from the architect R.M. Schindler to a mysterious lover. Shot in the 1920s modernist house designed and built by the architect on Kings Road in West Hollywood, Kuhn’s impressionistic photos capture the physical presence of this mysterious woman even as it seems to be dematerializing, resulting in fleeting images that question the very nature of lyrical fiction and photography as a record.
The technique of solarization, favored by Kuhn for this body of work, recalls Lee Miller and Man Ray’s experimentation in the 1920s, which radically expanded the horizons of photography beyond straight-forward representation.
Beyond photography, the exhibition takes the form of large cinematic projections which, choreographed with an original musical score by composer Boris Salchow, underscore the fiction’s spatial and temporal qualities. Marmol Radziner made it possible to include the R.M. Schindler furniture in the exhibition.
About the artist: Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, her work often reflects on humanity’s longing for spiritual connections. Her distinct aesthetics have propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers.
Accompanying publication: Kings Road, published by Steidl.
Mona Kuhn : The Schindler House, A Love Affair
Photography, Multimedia and Sound Installation
September 7 – October 12, 2024
Galerie XII Los Angeles
2525 Michigan Avenue
Suite B2, Santa Monica, CA 90404
(424) 252-9004
www.galeriexii.com
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