Entwistle
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Gerhard
Stromberg
Or So It Seemed
18 April - 24 May 2002
Private View 17 April 6 - 8pm
Entwistle, 6 Cork St, London W1S 3EE
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-17.30
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Gerhard Stromberg
Or So It Seemed
Private View 17 April 6 - 8pm
Exhibition 18 April - 24 May 2002
Starting in the summer of 2000, Gerhard Stromberg began to photograph
the landscape and housing of north-east England. The body of work that
emerged eighteen months later is exploration of the relationship between
landscape and memory and, more personally for the artist, Stromberg's
own relationship to his birthplace and his adopted homeland.
Born in Germany in 1952, Gerhard Stromberg has been resident in the UK
since 1986. Stromberg's landscape photographs have been published and
exhibited to acclaim internationally and throughout the UK. For his
second exhibition at Entwistle Stromberg is exhibiting a set of
large-scale photographs and light-boxes that are the result of a
yearlong residency with Sunderland University. Stromberg invests the
barren fields and tenement housing with an unexpected beauty and
dignity. The title of each photograph is the name of a street or place
from the artist's childhood in Germany. This device displaces the
specific and creates a symbolic landscape, a western non-place of
intensively worked land and mass housing. The strength of Stromberg's
work is in the rigorous honesty of the process combined with a true love
for a landscape traditionally seen as utilitarian and non-aesthetic.
Or So It Seemed is also a book by Gerhard Stromberg and a touring
exhibition, of which Entwistle is the first venue.
For information/press images contact Darren Flook
E darren@entwistle.net T +44 (0)20 7734 6440
Next exhibition: Tatsuo Miyajima 31 May - 27 July 2002
For more information go to: http://www.e-flux.com/site2002/index.phtml?client=welcome/ent/
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