” I was not really attempting to depict reality, I was attempting to manufacture it in a way, and that I think where a lot of its cinematic quality is coming. As an american, It’s almost impossible not to know Edward Hopper […]. There is something unrealistic about Edward Hopper’s lighting and it is a kind of Deus Ex Machina of this little scene that he does, it is a personification of the drama that is unseeen and what you don’t see in termes of action is symbolically represented by the nature of the light […] . Nothing happens in almost all of his photographs. It’s the moment in between what is normally considered a climax, the dramatic pic of the narrative that I find interesting in his work. That is enigmatic. ” Extract from l’Oeil de Philip-Lorca diCorcia, RMN One of the most influential and innovative photographers working today, Philip-Lorca diCorcia is known for creating images that are poised between documentary and theatrically-staged photography. His practice takes everyday occurrences beyond the realm of banality, infusing what would otherwise appear to be insignificant gestures with psychology and emotion. DiCorcia employs photography as a fictive medium capable of creating uncanny, complex realities out of seemingly straightforward compositions. As such, his work is based on the dichotomy between fact and fiction and asks the viewer to question the assumed truths that the photographic image offers.
Born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut, diCorcia received his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1979. Since 2007, he has been represented by David Zwirner, where he has had two solo exhibitions in 2009 and 2011. Thousand, an installation featuring 1,000 of the artist’s Polaroids which was previously exhibited at the gallery in 2009, was on view from June 14-17, 2012 as part of Art 43 Basel’s Art Unlimited in Basel, Switzerland. An upcoming solo show is planned for 2013 at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and will travel to the Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Recent museum solo exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2007). In 1993, a major solo exhibition was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
GALLERY
DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY
www.davidzwirner.com
REPRESENTATION
THE COLLECTIVE SHIFT
www.thecollectiveshift.com
EXHIBITION
Best Seen, Not Heard
Until January 28, 2013
Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
France
