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Shai Kremer
Fallen Empires
September 8 - October 15, 2011
There is a visual history over and under
the surface, spoken by the land and its stones and by all the civilizations that
have arisen there. Israel is a sophisticated and manipulated palimpsest. Extensively
covered by the media, debated by nations, claimed by religions, it is also a case
study about the phenomenon of empires. - Shai Kremer
The Julie Saul
Gallery is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition and book release of
Shai Kremers new project Fallen Empires, that develops and expands the concerns
of his first body of work Infected Landscape, shown here in April 2008.
Kremer
continues to mine the political landscape of Israel as document and metaphor,
recalling a long history of military landscape photography that goes all the way
back to Roger Fenton and invokes what has recently come to be termed the military
sublime. The landscapes and ruins are poetic, beautiful and aesthetically resonant;
yet they genuinely engage with the issues of the transience of civilization and
the legitimacy of imperialism. The dramatic images in the show date back to ancient
civilizations including Masada, the Roman era, the Turkish Empire, the crusaders,
both world wars, up through the recent Palestinian conflicts. As in his earlier
work, the images seduce and then can hit you in the gut with details like surveillance
cameras mounted to ancient sacred walls and jagged debris that resembles abstract
sculpture.
Kremer was born and raised in Israel, received his MFA from
the School of Visual Arts in New York and now lives between New York and Israel.
His work is included in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography
and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Since 2006 Infected Landscape has traveled to
galleries and museums in China, Japan, Italy, Spain, Oslo, Bergen, Lithuania,
Toronto, Houston, Tampa, Portland and Paris. A work from this project has travelled
in the show Exposed: Voyeurism, surveillance and the camera since 1870 to the
Tate Modern, SF MoMA, and the Walker in Minneapolis.
The monograph is co-published
by Radius Books and Dewi Lewis Publishing, with essays by Ariella Azoulay, Meron
Benvenisti, Amiran Oren, Talya Sason, and Anne Wilkes Tucker. The hardcover includes
136 pages and 50 color plates. The book is available through the gallery, the
publisher and Amazon.
SHAI KREMER
FALLEN EMPIRES
SEPTEMBER 8-OCTOBER 15, 2011
Entrance:
Moaz Esther, Panorama, 2010
chromogenic print
94 3/8 x 29 3/4 image,
41 1/8 x 105 1/2 framed
edition 2/5
Shivta, Water Tanks, 2009
chromogenic
print
21 1/2 x 28 3/4 image, 29 x 36 framed
edition 3/9
MAIN
GALLERY:
East wall:
Tel Nitzana, 2007
chromogenic print
31 1/4
x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition 1/7
Zion Gate, 2010
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition
1/7
NORTH WALL:
Turkish Railroad Station, 2009
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition 1/7
Moaz
Esther, 2010
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4
framed
edition 3/7
View from Masada, 2009
chromogenic print
31
1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition 2/7
Lifta, View
of Givat Shaul, 2010
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4
x 51 1/4 framed
edition 1/7
WEST WALL:
Zaura, 2008
chromogenic
print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition of 1/7
Caesarea,
2010
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition 1/7
SOUTH WALL
Gidon, Dining Room, 2008
chromogenic print
31 1/4 x 41 3/4 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition 1/7
City
of David, Silwan, 2010
chromogenic print
30 x 40 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4
framed
edition 1/7
Lifta, Trash, 2010
chromogenic print
30
x 40 image, 41 1/4 x 51 1/4 framed
edition of 1/7
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| Reviews:
The
New Yorker, October 17, 2011
The
Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2011
Jewish
Week, September 2011
Moaz
Esther, Panorama
Shivta, Water Tanks
Tel
Nitzana
Zion
Gate
Turkish
Railroad Station
Moaz
Esther
View
from Masada
Lifta, View of Givat Shaul
Zaura
Caesarea
Gidon,
Dining Room 
City
of David, Silwan
Lifta, Trash
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