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Still image from two screen video
'The Pallasades 05-01-01', 2001
courtesy of artist.
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Cities 2001-2005
Wednesday, September 20 - Sunday, November 5, 2006
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Swiss-born artist Beat Streuli (b. 1957) has developed a substantial and impressive body of work in photography and video that documents the transient pedestrian activity of urban life. He documents the image of people in urban spaces around the world, in Asia, Europe, the U.S., Africa, and Australia. Streuli's images of people moving through and among each other blur a line between portraying anonymity and individuality. The dramatically slowed video images, which represent an ever-changing sea of pedestrians -- bodies and faces navigating through a given city -- offer a moving social portrait of contemporary society.
Streuli's exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art will be the artist's first museum exhibition devoted to his recent video. He has exhibited widely throughout the world since 1990. A few of his many solo exhibitions have occurred at the Palais de Tokyo, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
A special artist's book, along with a limited edition color photograph, will be published in connection with the exhibition, in collaboration with Atopia Projects.
Pro Helvetia Foundation, Switzerland, and Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art has provided generous support for this exhibition. Additional support comes from the Swiss Consulate in Boston; Murray Guy Gallery, New York; and Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels. |
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Michael Fried
Beyond Street Photography: Beat Streuli
Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:00 pm
Flavin Auditorium, Isenberg School of Management
Distinguished guest speaker, Michael Fried, is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. His recent books include 'Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews' and 'Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin'. He is currently writing a book on photography since Berd and Hilla Becher
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Beat Streuli/Bruxelles Midi/2006
The publication consists of a series of street portraits taken near Bruxelles Midi, Brussels main train station. As is typical with Streuli's approach in both photography and video, the photographs in this publication are taken using a telephoto lens, visually isolating the individuals within their surroundings. This form of photographic extraction results in street portraits of unwitting protagonists; their conceptual exile from the crowd simultaneously asserting their distinctiveness and anonymity within the social multitude. Presented as a large-format book, in which a cadenced encounter of 25 of these portrait images is created through the irregular insertion of blank pages and spreads, the full-bleed printing is uninterrupted by textual explanation or contextualization. The publication has been realized by Atopia Projects, Amherst, in collaboration with Beat Streuli and University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst; with support from Murray Guy, New York, and Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels.
32 pages, b/w, 11 x 17 inches, 2006, $20
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