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Robert Stivers - Listening to Cement
Photography
March 2 - April 22, 2001at OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Duesseldorf
“In his newest body of work, Stivers deepens his investigation of the spiritual world, as faces, torsos, buildings and objects emerge from darkness, each carefully informing the other. While we recognize the profile of a woman or the arch of an entryway, Stivers' photographs transform flesh into cement and back again. "Listening to Cement" reminds us that all things, animate and inanimate, have life and can lead us into realms of spirituality and intrigue. While several images include elements of the human form the back of a bald man's head, a portrait of the artist himself, two figures in an embrace Stivers also includes photographs of the sea, an abstract cloud pattern and the spiral of a seashell. As a whole, all objects emerge from darkness, resting in places which are as inviting as they are foreboding. Void of gravity, bodies and objects float, anchored by the edges of the photographic paper. These are lustrous images chemically toned in the darkroom. The result is a series of photographs which shimmer with gold, yellow and orange tones which change from print to print due to how he works in the darkroom. Listening to Cement asks us to listen to the silence of a person's stare or waves on the beach -- a silence which is both palpable and imagined.”
We will present as well the recently by Arena published monograph “Listening to Cement” |
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