December 7, 2015
2-TIMES · Art
Jeff Wall @
Marian Goodman
—
Concurrent
exhibitions:
Presenting new
photographs
created by Wall
over the last
18 months.
Wall's work:
Combines formal
innovation with a
discerning reflection
on and research
into conditions and
social interactions
in the real world.
Approach:
Wall engages
in a boundless
exploration of
open and closed
spaces and the
relationships
between them,
rendering his
subjects through
a selective strategy
of reportage or
construction,
while being partial
to neither.
Themes:
Integrating truth
and artifice, the
street and the studio,
documentary and
the cinematographic.
Influences:
A picture might
be engendered
from an ‘instant’,
a ‘mise en scene,’
or the ‘before’ or
‘after’ of a real or
imagined event;
a methodology
that has given rise
to the relevance of
what Wall terms the
‘near-documentary.’
On view at:
Marian Goodman
Gallery
—
24 West 57th Street,
New York, NY, 10019,
United States
&
5-8 Lower John Street,
London, W1F 9DY,
United Kingdom.
Closes:
December 19, 2015.