ART REFERENCE (BOOKS), PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 113x185CM, 2001
FREE STATE III,PEELED PHOTOGRAPH, 127X161CM
Richard Galpin intricately scores and peels away emulsion from the surface of his photographs producing a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind - each piece is unique and made entirely by the erasure of photographic information.
In 2008 Hales Gallery published "Surface to Surface", a book that documents the development of Galpin's work - from the early works based on snapshots of London shop signs, to the latest large scale works with New York and Sao Paulo cityscapes. The essay by writer and curator David Thorp contextualises Galpin's practice within a 20th Century art-historical discourse, exploring the various references in the work to early modernist movements.
Posted by Derek Lerner on March 08, 2009 at 11:59 AM
