Details:
Renate Aller
PLATE 8
Photo sculpture, metallic C-print behind acrylic slab
2.3 x 24 x 16 in
2016
Nepal, Himalayas, Langtang Region, Dec 2016.
The silent and continuous erosion trickling from the top of the mountains, via the glaciers, tropical forests, sand dunes, ice fields into the ocean. I am engaging the viewer with these giants in all their detail, the veins and textures of the rocks in their constantly transient state. I am isolating the landscape from its expected surroundings, using and presenting the familiar and the known in an intimate way, relating to parallel realities from different locations, opening up conversations between the different emotional, political and actual landscapes in which we live.
About the artist:
Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” are her most recent books, both published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany. “Mountain Interval” and the artist’s previous projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” (published by Radius Books of Santa Fe) and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years” (co published by Kehrer Verlag and Radius Books) support the artist’s investigation into the relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.
Her works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Yale University Art Gallery, CT, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland and New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, NY Where a solo exhibition with “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” will be held in March – August 7th 2022.
Website:
https://renatealler.com/
*Sculpture comes with a photo book