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Email Pageres: Conatus
October 19, 2006- November 25, 2006
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Robert Mann Gallery
210 11th Averes: Conatus will be exhibited October 19 through November 25, 2006. A reception will be held on Thursday, October 19 from 6-8pm. A press preview will be held on the same day from 10am-12pm.
The Argentine artist res, working with collaborator Constanza Piaggio, has produced a remarkable new series entitled Conatus. Each piece is a painstaking recreation of an iconic piece of western art by painters such as Velazquez, da Vinci, and Picasso. In the process of translating the original work from canvas to photograph, res makes unexpected alterations that reinterpret and recontextualize the subject and its themes through contemporary perspectives on spirituality, philosophy, politics, and the centuries-old process of image-making. The resulting large-scale photographs are powerful and brooding, yet strangely beautiful, like fragments of a dream that one struggles to remember.
The artist was born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1957. He studied photography in the School of Arte Lino E. Spilimbergo (Córdoba) and in Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico D.F.). He currently lives in Buenos Aires.
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