UNTITLED (El #4)

Print

HCC Permanent Art Collection

Name/Title

UNTITLED (El #4)

Entry/Object ID

2012.3.1

Description

Black and white horizontal Xerox print. Abstract photograph of architectural details. Composition is dominated by black shapes and lines on the left third, gradually transitioning to more dominant white elements on the center and right sections. Thin white lines move geometrically threw the black spaces and black things lines through the negative spaces.

Collection

HCC Permanent Art Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Kurt Piazza

Role

Photographer

Date made

2011

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Artist Commentary

Label

Kurt Piazza is a multi-media artist working primarily in video, installation, photography and performance. His recent work explores the notion that physical space has a history, and that architecture can serve as a metaphor for the concepts of time and space. This body of work explores the ideas of phenomenality, spectrality, and phantomality. The architectural photographs are reduced to the purity of black and white, and finally reproduced as large-scale xerox prints. Through this process, these manipulated architectural forms are transformed into a ghostly silhouette. The scale suggests the notion of the sublime, and the grainy reproductions serve as metaphor for the death of the object.