Elger Esser au Norton Museum of Art
Elger Esser, Blois, France, 1998. C-Print and DiaSec Face. 72 13/16 x 97 5/8 in. (184.9 x 248 cm). Courtesy Thomas Segal Gallery
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Elger Esser’s largest US museum exhibition to date opened at the Norton Museum of Art on March 24, 2007. This exhibition, organized by the Norton Museum , is a selection of the German photographer’s large-scale images which reflect subtle sensibilities that could appear out-of-sync with much of today’s bold, big and brash aesthetic one sees at many contemporary art galleries or international art fairs. Esser’s work gently defies the world of color photographs produced over the past decade. His photographs of the sea, marshlands, rivers, or even city and town panoramas, appear as if from another era. In fact, the association with nineteenth-century landscape painting is what often comes to mind when first seeing one of Esser’s large-scale artworks (some are over seven-feet in length). Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19813