Photograph © Luis Mallo
Photograph © Luis Mallo
Photograph © Luis MalloA note to me from Photography Curator and Collector, William Hunt:
Luis Mallo’s exhibition “Interruptions” opens next Thursday at Praxis Gallery in Chelsea. Go see it and tell your friends to also.
I love Luis. When I became a dealer, he was one of the first photographers I championed. I debuted a classic looking body of work “Passengers”. These are black and white studies of subway riders' hands: wonderful typologies, printed gorgeously.
He went on to develop other substantial portfolios, including “Reliquarium”: moody, spectral images of enigmatic spaces, also in black and white. Then switching to color, he created “Laminas”: studies of stained glass windows from behind.
“In Camera”, and “Open Secrets” are also considerations of seemingly closed off spaces - the first ones are cityscapes that play with depth, looking at openings in wall and fences seeing what’s beyond. Then moving into storerooms in museums, similar considerations of what’s not seen.
It has been a steady career, and like most artists he made room for a full life with marriage, a son, a full time position as an art director. “Interruptions” is not intended as a description of the career but rather the way he photographs, stopping to see as he goes. “Interruptions” includes new work and some older work, all part of the same trajectory.
I hope to see you there,
He went on to develop other substantial portfolios, including “Reliquarium”: moody, spectral images of enigmatic spaces, also in black and white. Then switching to color, he created “Laminas”: studies of stained glass windows from behind.
“In Camera”, and “Open Secrets” are also considerations of seemingly closed off spaces - the first ones are cityscapes that play with depth, looking at openings in wall and fences seeing what’s beyond. Then moving into storerooms in museums, similar considerations of what’s not seen.
It has been a steady career, and like most artists he made room for a full life with marriage, a son, a full time position as an art director. “Interruptions” is not intended as a description of the career but rather the way he photographs, stopping to see as he goes. “Interruptions” includes new work and some older work, all part of the same trajectory.
I hope to see you there,
Dancing Bear
Praxis NY, 541 West 25th Street, NYC
January 8 – February 21, 2015
In this exhibition Luis Mallo presents
a group of visually arresting images meant to stimulate us to question
notions of familiarity. With this series Mallo wants us to understand
that the manner in which we perceive our surroundings is contingent by
nature. Most of what we see and experience is illusory and therefore,
deceptive. His scenes reveal this illusory nature by offering partially
concealed and most often perplexing representations of the surrounding
landscape and its various props. For Mallo, Interruptions is not
an outcome, but a vital process, a way of looking that may offer a fresh
perspective. As previously done with other series, he invites us to
look deeper and unearth that which lies latently waiting to be
discovered under the veil of familiarity.
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