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Jeff WallJeff Wall is considered one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of his generation.
He uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technologies to make pictures that evoke the composition, scale, and ambition of the grandest history paintings.
This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Wall's nearly 30-year career.
Wall uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technology to make pictures that evoke the composition, scale, and ambition of the grandest history paintings.
His often giant color transparencies are mounted on light boxes that combine the seductive glow of a cinema screen or public advertising with the physical presence of minimalist sculpture.
Over the last three decades, Wall's intellectual rigor and critical accomplishment have aided significantly in placing photography at the very center of contemporary art discourse.
His works often have the formal clarity of documentary photography or photojournalism, yet almost all of his photographs rely on, to varying degrees, staged or constructed artifices.
Both the degree and nature of Wall's inventions vary significantly from picture to picture.
In some works, the scene has been created through the conventional manipulation of objects or individuals in real time and real space.
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June 29, 2007 | Viewed 29,910 time(s)
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