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Exhibition review
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Edward Burtynsky : Oil 4th floor (Barbara Lloyd Gallery) installation © Dennis Gilbert Courtesy The Photographers’ Gallery
The Photographers’ Gallery at 16- 18 Ramillies Street © Kate Elliott Courtesy The Photographers’ Gallery
The Photographers’ Gallery reopened to the public on Saturday 19 May after being closed for nearly two years while refurbishments on its new building were completed. The Gallery in its new location on Ramillies Street is much larger than its previous incarnation at Great Newport Street and now has substantially larger exhibition spaces. The beloved bookshop, a popular feature of the Gallery, is now located in the basement with the adjacent print sales room. Alongside the books for sale there is a range of ‘toy’ Holga cameras and accessories as well as a cabinet featuring, amongst others, a selection of refurbished Olympus Trips; all doing their bit to keep film sales alive.
Coinciding with ‘Oil’, Flowers Gallery, on Cork street is previewing Burtynsky’s new work ‘Dryland Farming’; which depicts the agricultural region of Monegros in Spain. These images will form part of his next extensive project ‘Water’ to be completed in 2013.
BURTYNSKY:OIL
19 May – 1 July 2012
The Photographers’ Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London W1F 7LW.
T: +44 (0)20 087 9300
Open: Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm, Thursdays 10am – 8pm, Sunday 11:30am – 6pm. Admission free.
email: info@tpg.org.uk
www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk
MONEGROS – DRYLAND FARMING
23 May – 23 June 2012
Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London W1S 3LZ
T: +44 (0)20 7439 7766
Open: Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 2pm
email: info@flowersgalleries.com
www.flowersgallery.com
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This looks like a ‘must see’ exhibition, I walked past ‘The Photographers Gallery’ whilst still under construction earlier this year and hoped it would be open again soon although, like the author I found the Newport St exhibitions that I saw were sometimes too esoteric for my taste.
Anyone with a love of environment through landscape should take time to view Burtynsky’s work – it says much more about our relationship with the planet than a pretty view ever will.
Agreed Brett. Burtynsky’s work not only provides the viewer with confronting realisations of the impact their lives have on the Earth but his images are also so disturbingly beautiful. His pictures are far more powerful than any “beautiful, ideal and picturesque” landscape. I’m not devaluing such photos but the impact of seeing a Burtynski work stays with me for far longer.
I went t ths exhibition over the weekend.
The images are truly stunning and definitely stay with one. A powerful message very well told.
A definite must to visit.
I’m up in London this weekend – this exhibition is definitely on my ‘must-do’ list – it will be interesting to take my Holga-fan daughter and hear her thoughts.
I’m not sure of the internet etiquette of replying to yourself, but I visited the exhibition today.
The prints are incredibly well presented and I’ve not seen a Burtynsky since a small exhibition of work in Australia in 2009. These images are much larger, better printed and exhibited. There is an amazing luminance to the prints no doubt aided by the gallery lighting.
The subject matter is obviously reproduced in the article and you make your own decisions and thoughts on the images. They are very accessable, I found my 8 year old son spending longer looking at the images than myself – which is a first. He was fascinated by the intense detail, and particularly liked and was drawn to the dyptychs. I found these particularly pleasing, it would have been easy to stitch the images together digitally but the forcing of the images apart was particularly striking.
I learned a lot personally, I’ve just finished my 6th exhibition and usually agonise about being able to nose the large prints. Burtynsky’s prints were huge and needed to be viewed from 6 feet back, closer and the image started to break up, but really so what, you can’t see the image completely close up. I’m assuming the prints were lightjet C types, I think I prefer them to giclee prints.
The overwhelming impressive feature was composition – I’ve never been in a helicopter, let alone shot from one, how he managed some of the perfect lines in those aerial shots is beyond me. How do you do all the thinking, composition and focusing with the helicopter door open? Impressive, a must see.
Thank you for the review. It makes me wish I could justify a trip to London to see the exhibition.
I’ve always tried to visit the Photographers Gallery when in London but have usually been disappointed with what I’ve seen there. This work looks stunning.
Good write-up Tim, I need to go along and have a look!
Wonderful exhibition! Having visited last weekend I see that there is a free-of-charge conducted tour of the exhibition by the curator this Saturday at 3:0 pm.