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Vera Lutter

July 24–September 12, 2009
Beverly Hills

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

Vera Lutter Installation view

Vera Lutter

Installation view

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Works Exhibited

Vera Lutter, San Marco, Venice XIX: December 1, 2005, 2005 Unique gelatin silver print, 2 panels: 92 ¼ × 112 ½ inches framed overall (234.3 × 285.8 cm)

Vera Lutter, San Marco, Venice XIX: December 1, 2005, 2005

Unique gelatin silver print, 2 panels: 92 ¼ × 112 ½ inches framed overall (234.3 × 285.8 cm)

Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XXIII: December 17, 2007, 2007 Unique gelatin silver print, 85 7/16 × 112 inches (217 × 284.5 cm)

Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XXIII: December 17, 2007, 2007

Unique gelatin silver print, 85 7/16 × 112 inches (217 × 284.5 cm)

Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XV: December 12, 2007, 2007 Unique gelatin silver print, 68 5/16 × 56 inches (173.5 × 142.2 cm)

Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XV: December 12, 2007, 2007

Unique gelatin silver print, 68 5/16 × 56 inches (173.5 × 142.2 cm)

Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice XVIII, January 26, 2008, 2008 Unique gelatin-silver print, 2 panels: 103 × 113 ¼ inches framed overall (261.6 × 287.7 cm)

Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice XVIII, January 26, 2008, 2008

Unique gelatin-silver print, 2 panels: 103 × 113 ¼ inches framed overall (261.6 × 287.7 cm)

Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice IX: January 19, 2008, 2008 Unique gelatin silver print, 35 ¼ × 88 ½ inches framed (89.5 × 224.8 cm)

Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice IX: January 19, 2008, 2008

Unique gelatin silver print, 35 ¼ × 88 ½ inches framed (89.5 × 224.8 cm)

Vera Lutter, Ca Del Duca Sforza, Venice II: January 13-14, 2008, 2008 Unique gelatin silver print, 3 panels: 104 × 56 ¾ inches framed overall (264.2 × 144.1 cm)

Vera Lutter, Ca Del Duca Sforza, Venice II: January 13-14, 2008, 2008

Unique gelatin silver print, 3 panels: 104 × 56 ¾ inches framed overall (264.2 × 144.1 cm)

About

Instability, uncertainty, suspense, and monumentality are entities that I consider and think about; they inform my work.
—Vera Lutter

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of large-scale unique photographs by Vera Lutter. This is her first exhibition in Los Angeles.

In Lutter's conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the most rudimentary form of photography, the apparatus records in a very direct and immediate way what exists in the world outside. By choosing to retain the negative image, she transforms the visual facts of her chosen environments into uncanny scenes that reflect on the two principal realities of time and space.

In recent years, Lutter has made the hauntingly romantic city of Venice an object of prolonged study. Building on her previous recordings of industrial landscapes and cities surrounded by water, such as Old Slip, New York (1995), and Cleveland (1997), the works created in Venice elaborate her intention "to create an image in which the city appears to be suspended above its own reflection, rendering a place that appears to exist outside of gravity."

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