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Email PageWatermark
October 20, 2007- November 24, 2007
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Carlo Van de Roer
Petra Projects
436 W 18th St Carlo Van de Roer Untitled (2007) |  Carlo Van de Roer Untitled (2007) |
Watermark reveals landmarks typically associated with warmth, exuberance and life, captured in settings that depict a feeling of emptiness. These granular C-type prints evoke a sense of presence defined by absence. The resulting sensation is overwhelming for its counterintuitive nature. To draw attention to these empty pools seems contradictory, yet Van de Roer aims to show a new angle. He creates geometric contours defined by bold color palates, highlighting the ambiguity of these "once" pools.
"These locations were once bustling social environments, and visiting them was a collective, public experience. Now deserted by swimmers, the experience of visiting these pools is solitary, still and private. Some have become bogs, homes or gardens – new lives that often go unobserved. Photographing them can be a voyeuristic and dark experience. I have focused on an intimate view of these locations, using tight crops which also emphasize the absent, making these photos as much about what is not there as what is there."
-C.VdR.
Carlo Van de Roer was born and raised in New Zealand, where he received his BFA in photography from Victoria University. Van de Roer lives and works in New York City, and frequently travels to Central America, Asia, Europe, and various parts of the United States to photograph, focusing on landscape as a recreational and social space; he aims to examine and reconnect with the environments that surrounded him growing up. Van de Roer won the 2006 ADC Young Gun Award and was the overall winner of the 2007 IPN Go Indie Award. Most recently he was awarded the 2007 Pix Digital Imaging Award. His work has been featured in publications in France, England, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
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