Lynne Cohen : observatories, laboratories / edited by Florian Ebner and Matthias Pfaller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gadonneix, Marina, 1977-

Cohen, Lynne, 1944-2014.

Centre Georges Pompidou.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohen, Lynne, 1944-2014--Exhibitions.

Cohen, Lynne.

Gadonneix, Marina, 1977---Exhibitions.

Gadonneix, Marina.

Cohen, Lynne, 1944-2014.

Gadonneix, Marina, 1977-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

103 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm.

Other Title:

Oservatories, laboratories.

Lynne Cohen, Marina Gadonneix : laboratoires, observatoires.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Atelier EXB : Centre Pompidou, 2023.

Summary:

This large-format monograph offers an opportunity to rediscover the work of Lynne Cohen, an international figure in contemporary photography, on the occasion of her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The book presents previously unpublished photographs from the period when Lynne Cohen switched from printmaking and sculpture to large-format camera photography in the 1970s, under the influence of Minimalism, Pop Art and Conceptual Art. The visual body of work, arranged thematically rather than serially, reflects both the artist's conceptual rigor and her irony as an ongoing investigator of the configuration of social space. Cohen creates images devoid of any human presence. She begins by focusing on ordinary private and semi-public interiors - living rooms, banquet halls, waiting rooms, spas - and then on increasingly aseptic places such as laboratories, shooting ranges, observation rooms or training rooms. In these sometimes kitschy settings, a certain mystery and a disturbing atmosphere hovers. The rigorous framing, a certain distance and a light, which underlines materials and surfaces, confer to the places she captures an appearance at the same time «surreal» and artificial. Through the neutrality of the lighting and the absence of characters, the domestic interiors and workplaces evoke a social control that is exercised in a diffuse manner. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui and Andrew Lugg, the artist's widower and intellectual accomplice, as well as by the exhibition curators Florian Ebner and Matthias Pfaller, shed light on this visual corpus and its critical perception. The testimonies of the artists Ricarda Roggan and Marina Gadonneix reveal the extent to which her work finds important extensions in contemporary photography today. -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Foreword / Laurent Le Bon, Xavier Rey

"Message from the interior" The work of Lynne Cohen through its various readings / Florian Ebner

From modernism to postmodernism: The photographic environment of Lynne Cohen's work from the 1960s to the 1990s / Matthias Pfaller

Robinson photographer: Lynne Cohen's anti-documents / Jean-Pierre Criqui

The fourth wall or a guide to good pictures / Ricarda Roggan

Two images by her / Marina Gadonneix

Lynne Cohen: A view from sideways on / Andrew Lugg

An artist using photography / Andrew Lugg

A professional biography / Matthias Pfaller

Local Notes:

Catalogue of the exhibition 'Lynne Cohen, Marina Gadonneix: laboratoires, observatoires' held at the Galerie du Musée Centre Pompidou, Paris, from 12 April to 23 August 2023.

ISBN:

9782365113748

2365113745

OCLC:

1389188208