New Jersey native Peter Downsbrough is a major figure of the conceptual art world. He now lives in Brussels.
Downsbrough began by studying architecture but soon turned his attention to sculpture. This transition represented his first change of medium. He then began to gather photographs, postcards and notes into books, which he then exhibited. He also made films, like pieces of papers scribbled over with deep black and satin whites that echoed the architecture of his photography, and transferred it to this travelogues. This black, thick like charcoal, and the white the artist called “the elegant calm.”
Downsbrough shows public abandoned spaces. His choices are intuitive. He adapts to the landscape. He frames his photographs with discretion and clarity, revealing fragments that become the story of his travels. Urban snapshots appear through his original compositions, as if eternal.
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Peter Downsbrough
Fabra i Coats, Centre d’art contemporain de Barcelone
C/Sant Adrià, 20
Barcelone
Spain
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Sunday 11am – 3pm
