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Florian Maier-Aichen

Snow Machine

September 3–October 3, 2009
Britannia Street, London

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine Installation view

Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine

Installation view

Works Exhibited

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2008 Silver-gelatin print, 40 × 47 ¼ inches framed (101.6 × 122.6 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2008

Silver-gelatin print, 40 × 47 ¼ inches framed (101.6 × 122.6 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Salton Seas (I), 2008 Chromogenic print, 99 ⅜ × 88 ¼ inches framed (252.4 × 224.2 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Salton Seas (I), 2008

Chromogenic print, 99 ⅜ × 88 ¼ inches framed (252.4 × 224.2 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled (Snow Machine), 2009 Chromogenic print, 28 ¼ × 28 ¾ inches (72 × 73 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled (Snow Machine), 2009

Chromogenic print, 28 ¼ × 28 ¾ inches (72 × 73 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009 Chromogenic print, 47 ¾ × 60 ½ inches framed (121.3 × 153.7 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009

Chromogenic print, 47 ¾ × 60 ½ inches framed (121.3 × 153.7 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009 Chromogenic print, 71 ⅛ × 90 ¾ inches framed (183.2 × 230.5 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009

Chromogenic print, 71 ⅛ × 90 ¾ inches framed (183.2 × 230.5 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009 Chromogenic print, 49 ¼ × 59 ½ inches framed (125.1 × 151.1 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled, 2009

Chromogenic print, 49 ¼ × 59 ½ inches framed (125.1 × 151.1 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Der Watzmann, 2009 Chromogenic print, 84 ¼ × 60 ⅜ inches framed (214 × 153.4 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Der Watzmann, 2009

Chromogenic print, 84 ¼ × 60 ⅜ inches framed (214 × 153.4 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled (St. Francis Dam), 2009 Chromogenic print, 71 ⅜ × 92 ⅝ inches framed (181.3 × 235.3 cm), edition of 6

Florian Maier-Aichen, Untitled (St. Francis Dam), 2009

Chromogenic print, 71 ⅜ × 92 ⅝ inches framed (181.3 × 235.3 cm), edition of 6

About

I have always been interested in the making of things. Most products and materials conceal their process of manufacture. It's the same with photography, which turned from a discipline that was subject to the mastery of the few (alchemists) into a readily available industrial mass product, too transparent and too technical.
—Florian Maier-Aichen

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent photographs by Florian Maier-Aichen. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in London.

A photographer schooled on both sides of the Atlantic, Maier-Aichen's work reflects on the dual influences of the history of photography and the history of painting, whether drawing on such dichotomies as German Romantic painting and the pioneers of German "objective" photography, or applying his post-factum experience of American frontier art — from the Hudson River School and Abstract Expressionism to Land Art and West Coast conceptualism — to his own topographical depictions of landscape subjects. He focuses on the camera's consummate power to establish typologies of thought, perception, and feeling, producing images that, in mining the past, come to embody a matrix of issues salient to recent photographic practice.

Approaching the photographic field like a painter approaches a canvas, Maier-Aichen does for the contemporary image-world what pictorial photographers attempted in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the strategies and motifs of Romantic and Luminist painting. Unnaturally high-keyed or delicately tinted images of soaring mountain ranges, moody seas, and the industrial architecture of bridges, waterways, and dams carving through the natural landscape are all emanations of a rich and diverse imagination where a keen and critical grasp of art history coexists with more pronounced literary and cinematic conceits.

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