Jeff Wall Lightbox

Jeff wall was born in 1946 in vancouver where he lives and works.

Jeff wall lightbox. Around 5 by 8 feet in size the work is both vivid and imposing. It depicts a flat open landscape in which four foreground figures are frozen as they respond to a sudden gust of wind. It is based on a woodcut travellers caught in a sudden breeze at ejiri c 1832 from a famous portfolio the thirty six views of fuji by the japanese painter and printmaker. Picture for women is a 142 5 204 5 cm cibachrome transparency mounted on a lightbox.

Characteristic of wall s work this format offers sharp figures in rich saturated colors made even more intense by the lights that illuminate the image from behind. Stedelijk museum amsterdam touring to kunsthaus bregnez austria and louisiana museum of modern art humlebaek denmark 2014 15. According to tate modern this success allows wall to reference both popular culture the illuminated signs of cinema and advertising hoardings and the sense of scale he admires. He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at kunsthalle mannheim germany touring to mudam luxembourg 2018.

Pérez art museum miami 2015. Jeff wall s a view from an apartment is a large photographic transparency displayed on an electric light box. A sudden gust of wind after hokusai is a large colour photograph displayed in a light box. Art gallery of western australia touring.

Picture for women 1979. Along with the destroyed room wall considers picture for women to be his first success in challenging photographic tradition. Early in his career he helped define the vancouver school and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow vancouverites rodney graham ken lum. Jeff wall courtesy marian goodman gallery they mesmerised the art world and he became alongside cindy sherman and later andreas gursky one of the pioneers of conceptual photography.

Jeff wall the giant 1992 transparency in lightbox the broad art foundation. The destroyed room from 1978 is one of canadian artist jeff wall s first and most iconic photographs. The work consists of a large photograph printed as a cibachrome transparency within a fluorescent lightbox. Jeffrey wall oc rsa born september 29 1946 is a canadian artist best known for his large scale back lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing he has been a key figure in vancouver s art scene since the early 1970s.

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