Art Out: Anthony Friedkin, Buck Ellison and Markus Brunetti
@ Anthony Friedkin. Skateboarder Natas Kaupas, Los Angeles, California, 1988. Gelatin sliver print. Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Von Lintel Gallery | March 18 — April 15, 2023
A Los Angeles native, Friedkin began photographing at the age of eight and was working in darkrooms by the time he was eleven. Early on, he used photography to explore his infatuation with the ocean and now, over 60 years later, he still travels the Southern California coast with a camera in hand. Friedkin extends his adoration of the ocean to include surf culture, in and out of the water. He believes in the power of extraordinary photographs that cannot be easily defined, but rather celebrate perception and its many layers of reality. Friedkin’s work also delves into these intersections and presents the broader reality of surf culture.
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@ Buck Ellison, Fog, In His Light We Shall See The Light, Raintree 23 Ltd Ptnr, Excess Distribution Carryover, If Any, 2003, 2021. Archival pigment print. © Buck Ellison; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Luhring Augstine | March 17 — April 29
Ellison’s practice produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. The six photographs and the film that comprise Little Brother were made between 2017 and 2022; in them, Ellison imagines Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, as he might have appeared on his Wyoming ranch in 2003, the year the firm received its first U.S. contracts to engage in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the presentation at Luhring Augustine, Ellison also produced the new, hand-silkscreened wallpaper. The design is an expansion of his exploration into the world of his subject; inspired by Prince’s often-cited assertion that his plan for Afghanistan was modeled after the British East India Company, the motifs in Ellison’s wallpaper examine that company’s introduction of opium into China in the 1830s.
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@ Markus Brunetti. Rocca di Calascio, Santa Maria della Pieta, 2022-2023. Archival Pigment Print. Courtesy to the artist and Yossi Milo, New york.
Yossi Milo | March 16 — May 6
Markus Brunetti’s (b. 1965; Germany) most recent work continues his singular mission to document Europe’s historic cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and synagogues in immaculate detail. Brunetti’s practice is often likened to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s serial documentation of German industrialization, yet the artist himself aligns his methods more closely with the tradition of Old Master painting. Like the masters of the Renaissance, the artist offers interpretations of his monumental subjects, not simply by photographing them, but by crafting a view of each structure according to his conceptual understanding of its architecture. The unique embellishments and stylistic features of Brunetti’s subjects take on new meaning when works from the series are placed in conversation. FACADES III presents images of sacred buildings from similar time periods and architectural movements, yet which differ vastly in their design, material, and construction.
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