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April 28, 2007- June 30, 2007
Reception: April 28, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Sonnabend
536 W 22nd St“Bernd and Hilla Becher’s almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most important project in objective and conceptual photography today. The subject matter of this show, grain elevators, are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world’s granaries. Scooping, pouring and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier’s idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this exhibition were taken in Germany, Belgium, France and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.
Bernd and Hilla Becher have collaborated since 1959. Founders of the internationally acclaimed Becher class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, they have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 1990 Venice Biennale, the 2002 Erasmus Award, and the 2004 Hasselblad Award.”
- text exerpt from “Grain Elevators” published by MIT Press
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