Conceptual Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in iconic landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Self Portrait #17 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Francke Foundations II, Library, Halle, Germany, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German photographer Reinhard Görner depicts the Francke Foundations library in Halle, Germany. The artist is praised for crisp, rich deta...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner, The Long Room IV, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Irelan...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational message sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana signs in landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
48 x 67 inches (122 x 171cm)
signed edition of 7
29 x 40 inches (74 x 102cm)
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence.
Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels.
Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Ed Rusha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Palm Springs 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photogram
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Igor Vishnyakov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968 in Moscow. Igor spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. After returning to Moscow in the mid...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Library Hall, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 54 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 64.7 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 75.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Panel D - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Panel B - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neuros...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM9 Wall-Gazing, Plants and Walls IV
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Reinhard Görner, Beinecke, New Haven, Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Beinecke, New Haven
Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library
New Haven
Contemporary large scale photograph
50 x 56 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Self Portrait #5 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Grand Piano, Biblioteca Joanina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches
ed. of 7
$9000
70 x 71.6 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner – Leda with Swan, 1532, Correggio – Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Leda with Swan unveils an intimate and evocative perspective on Correggio’s 16th-century masterpiece, capturing the painter’s exquisite handling of light, texture, ...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Self Portrait #14. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 59, not mounted, 15.2cm x 10.8cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Rag Paper...
Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Published:
City Journal
Huffington Post
The Color Theory Expert
Snap
The Nation
Global Yodel
THE magazine
Live Mag!
The Villager
Ravelin
D/Railed Magazine
Open Letr
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Green - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Green, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcard...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #11 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
India the Wonderful Land original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage linen backed, travel poster to INDIA The Wonderful Land. The center image of this poster is the Taj Mahal at Agra, India with the Qutb Minar minaret red tower...
Category
1950s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Flora 29 by Marisa Culatto - Contemporary Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 29 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints.
Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée
Back in 10 - large format photograph of conceptual message sign in landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in landscape of the American West
BACK I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
YES - XXL format photograph of conceptual motivational message sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana signs in landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
58 x 81 inches (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Orthochromatic Positive - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciate the details of this vintage utili...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 40 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 50 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
90 x 60 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM11 Wall-Gazing, Plants and Walls V
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Self Portrait #15. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Letter O ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER O by Christian Stoll
large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective
incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photo
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM 12 Wall-Gazing, The Cloisters
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Billboard - large scale monochromatic photograph of iconic Americana road sign
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
a monochromatic photographic homage to artist Ed Ruscha from a series of iconic Americana roadside billboard signs and conceptual signage
BILLBOARD by Frank Schott
48 x 76 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Yellow - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Yellow, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Laocoon II, Grimani Palace, Venice, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laocoon II
Grimani Palace, Venice
2014
A masterful composition by renowned German photographer Reinhard Görner, Laocoon II captures the grandeur of Venetian architecture in exquisit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Orthochromatic Negative - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciat...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2015 -
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 21.5 x 27cm.
Archival Print, based on an 8x10" Polaroid Negative Scanning.
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
Not mounted.
Short Bio:
Xulong Zhang has been engaged in fashion portrait photography for 30 years and loves the Polaroid medium and began to working with Polaroid photography in 2000. He traveled to 34 countries for his Polaroid projects..
Vita:
1999 Has won the title “Ten Elites” in the 3rd China Portrait Photography.
2000 Named the World Chinese Artist, known as “The Prince of Album”
2001 September, CCTV special report on “Zhang Xulong’s Body Art Photography” gained strong feedback from the community.
2002 January, published “Strategies for Commercial Portrait Photograph” by Zhejiang Photography Publishing.
2002 February, launched the concept of “Tang Yun” and greatly accepted by the market. His idea has spread across whole China’s photography industry.
2002 July, launched the concept of “Picasso’s scene backdrop” for kids photography and shocking the whole industry.
2002 August, published “Ms.Tang’s Body Art Portrait Album”, the first female body photography in China, by People’s Arts Publishing
2002 September, a personal exhibition entitled “seeing memory” in the ancient city of Shanxi Province, the 2nd session of the Pingyao International Photography Festival.
In December of 2002, he was invited to give lectures in Malaysia and auction off the “Fruitful Achievements” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, donating all money to the Kuala Lumpur Charitable aid for nursing homes and orphanages, won the "goodwill ambassador" title of honor in Kuala Lumpur.
2003 February-March, held the exhibition of “White Valentines” at Beijing International Trade and Exhibition Centre.
December 2003, pioneered the new concept of "Royal Wedding", and completed the album of “Invasion 2004” wedding photography books published by Jilin art press.
In December 2003 was awarded the 2003 annual contribution of the Chinese human body photography.
2003 Published “China Portrait Culture”.
2004 January, published Body Art & Portrait album “Chun Hua Qiu Shi”.
2004 March, held the exhibition of “Body Art & Portrait photography” in Chengdu.
2004 May, featured on a special report of “Match En China” in Paris.
2004 September, Pingyao international photography festival held entitled "the ambiguity of ancient legacy" xu-long Zhang body art exhibition 2005 August.
2005 August, accept the German star weekly "Der Stern" special report of “China nude” photography...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Four - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
These historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards fro...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM 13 Wall-Gazing IV
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM2 Wall-Gazing, Plants and Walls
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neurosis bring...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Longing, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Red Staircase, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 52 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 72.8 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Come Closer, Darling! Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This captivating macro photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner draws the viewer into the intricate, sensuous details of a blooming iris. The soft, velvety petals in shades of vio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
50 x 75 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
60 x 90 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM8 Wall-Gazing, Plants and Walls III
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition
Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Out of Nowhere, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Out of Nowhere, part of Reinhard Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the delicate interplay of deep purples, vibrant greens, and soft-focus backgrounds creates an evocative an...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010)
Mixed media sculpture
"Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage,
Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d.
There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made.
Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010
From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd."
Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland
Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years.
Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis.
In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place.
Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...
Category
1960s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Mixed Media
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This masterful photograph by renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner captures the timeless elegance of the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Known as the 'cathedral of...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Untitled V, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Sala dei Fiumi I (Hall of Rivers), Ducal Palace of Mantua
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Embark on a visual journey into the heart of Italian architectural grandeur with Reinhard Görner's 2022 photograph, Sala dei Fiumi I. This breathtaking image captures the impressive "Hall of the Rivers" within the Ducal Palace of Mantua, a historic complex recognized as the sixth largest palace in Europe.
Built between the 14th and the 17th century by the noble Gonzaga family, the Ducal Palace of Mantua serves as a testament to Italy's rich architectural heritage and royal history. The palace complex, featuring an impressive assortment of more than 500 rooms, corridors, galleries, inner courts, and extensive gardens, spans an area of approximately 34,000 m2.
While the palace is widely recognized for Mantegna's frescos in the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Room), the Sala dei Fiumi offers its unique allure. Created during the Habsburg rule in Mantua, this hall showcases distinctive wall paintings where the rivers of the Mantuan territory are anthropomorphized as giants.
Reinhard Görner's photograph is more than a visual delight; it's a historical journey into Italy's cultural past. Ideal for art enthusiasts, history lovers, and those with a keen eye for architectural beauty, this piece promises to enhance any collection. Allow the grandeur of the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova and the majesty of the Sala dei Fiumi to resonate within your space with this stunning image.
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective.
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Orangerie, Parc de Versailles, France
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches
ed. of 10
$5,000
50 x 75 inches
ed. of 5
$8,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentalit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
50 x 62.5 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 75 inches
ed. of 5
$9,000
70 x 87.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reinhard Görner – Leda with Swan, 1532, Correggio – Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Leda with Swan unveils an intimate and evocative perspective on Correggio’s 16th-century masterpiece, capturing the painter’s exquisite handling of light, texture, ...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
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