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EUQINOM projects
April 6 - May 7, 2016Info
1599 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Google Map »Reception
April 8, 2016 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
MONA KUHN, AD 6016, 2014, from the Acido Dorado series chromogenic print, Courtesy of the artist and EUQINOMprojects
Located in the Dogptach, the new hot spot in San Francisco, we curate exhibitions that showcase the beauty of the photographic process and strongly engage with photo-history. 2016 is a pivotal year for visual arts, and specifically photography, in the Bay Area. SFMOMA is reopening and will be the largest exhibition space dedicated to photography in the country. The Minnesota Street Projects, which offers affordable and economically sustainable spaces for artists and related nonprofits is opening. Finally, the Berkeley Art Museum reopened last month in its new home. The Bay Area is reclaiming its territory as an art destination and we are thrilled to be launching our first exhibition. Mona Kuhn: New Works features a selection of photographs from Kuhn’s two most recent bodies of work, Private and Acido Dorado. Kuhn begins each series with a specific color palette and emotion in mind; consequently each body of work is like a lyrical ballad, opening up a dialogue about the human body’s interaction with its physical environment. Her primary focus is the body, and though her early work leans more towards traditional figuration, these pieces see her actively broaden her scope, turning her attention to landscape, abstraction, and the body’s relationship to architecture. Acido Dorado is set inside architect Robert Stone’s secluded modernist structure in Joshua Tree National Park, California. In this series, Kuhn and her subject, close friend and long-time collaborator Jacintha, explore pools, mirrored ceilings and glass walls to produce sandy-colored hallucinations filled with dreamy light leaks and seductive reflections. Landscapes, architectural details, reflections and a single figure repeatedly obscured and dislocated create photographs that verge on abstraction. Kuhn playfully combines a number of visual strategies; patterning, translucency, and reflectivity and conflates them with the casual closeness of a photographer and her subject. Private proposes a world in which concrete reality and the imaginary are one. Plants and animals on the edge of survival, sun-drenched landscapes and wind-sculpted earth are intercut with a series of nudes that push Kuhn’s renowned sensitivity to human form into unexpected directions. Shot over two years in the Mojave desert Kuhn created a sequence of pictures that is seductive, enigmatic and a little unsettling.
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Mona Kuhn in conversation with Darius Himes
4/30/2016 Public Program