The MAD Agency is presenting a solo show of Thomas Mailaender at an abandoned Paris printshop.
The cyanotype, invented by British scientist Sir John Herschel in 1842, is a simple and inexpensive printing process characterized by its blue-cyan hue. Popularized by the botanist Anna Atkins, who used it for her herbarium, the cyanotype become a widespread process in the 19th century.
With his usual humor, Mailaender makes use of this process to challenge and satirize contemporary art. The photographs come from his “Fun Archive,” a personal bank of absurd and anonymous images gleaned on the net by Mailaender over the years. By combining photographs from the digital age with an old process like the cyanotype, which holds a special place in the history of photography, the large-format image of Cyanotypes demonstrate Mailaender’s ability to elevate the absurd to the status of art.
http://www.thomasmailaender.com
REPRESENTATION
PHOTOGRAPHERS – www.photographers.fr
MAD Agency – www.madagency.fr
EXPOSITION
Cyanotypes
Thomas Mailaender
Du 14 au 26 Juin 2014
14 Rue Popincourt
75011 Paris
Paris
Ouvert tous les jours de 11h à 19h (sauf le Lundi)
CONTRIBUTOR
Severine Morel
[email protected]
