The memory of place on the water. Gowanus by Michael Moran
05/12/2021.
[MAD] Spain 03.012.2021 >11.01.2022
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The gallery "_2B space to be" present 'Gowanus', an exhibition by artist Michael Moran, which can be visited until January 11, 2021.
The New York photographer takes as a reference the old Gowanus industrial area, which is located around the Gowanus Canal from which it takes its name, in Brooklyn, New York.
The New York photographer takes as a reference the old Gowanus industrial area, which is located around the Gowanus Canal from which it takes its name, in Brooklyn, New York.
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus by Michael Moran
Gowanus is a neighborhood in full transformation where classic-style semi-detached houses and old renovated industrial warehouses are mixed. Today, its transformation is attracting hipsters and creative people who are creating studios and modern art galleries. An update process that involves a strong gentrification process.
“This work originated in the pandemic lockdown in New York City, when I began exploring the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Red Hook and Gowanus. I first documented structures that interested me – an enormous old granary, the cranes used to unload shipping containers, the highest train station in New York City. Eventually I turned my focus to the Gowanus Canal, an extremely polluted waterway with an industrial past and a gentrified future.
I began taking photographs with a small camera drone hovering low over the water, and discovered the simple technique of "flipping" the resulting images. I looked for inspiration to monotypes by Degas, paintings by Monet, Constable, and others, and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The photographs are landscapes which exist at the edges of environmental destruction; peril reflecting life.”
I began taking photographs with a small camera drone hovering low over the water, and discovered the simple technique of "flipping" the resulting images. I looked for inspiration to monotypes by Degas, paintings by Monet, Constable, and others, and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. The photographs are landscapes which exist at the edges of environmental destruction; peril reflecting life.”
Michael Moran
"_2B space to be" continues the program of the exhibition course, with which they want to continue giving visibility to different artists who approach in a contemporary way and criticize the temporal dimension of space and our relationship with it.
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Artist / Photographer
Venue
_2B space Gallery. Calle de Benigno Soto 14. 28002 Madrid, Spain.
Dates
from December 3, 2021 to January 11, 2022.
Michael Moran
Michael Moran studied biology, painting and sculpture at the University of California. Santa Barbara. His first job after graduation was designing and fabricating, with a small team of artists, a diorama at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The job entailed studying the near shore ecology of the Southern California coast, and inspired an interest in research and exposition.
Subsequently he received his Master in Architecture degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in the studio of Frank Gehry, primarily as a model maker. While working for Gehry he became increasingly interested in photography, and left in 1985 to begin an architectural photography practice in New York City.
His photographs have been published in every major architecture magazine worldwide, and he has been commissioned to take photographs for several books, including monographs on Philip Johnson's Glass House, 20th Century Architecture in New York, and the work of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and Rafael Moneo. He has lived in Brooklyn for 16 years.
Subsequently he received his Master in Architecture degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked in the studio of Frank Gehry, primarily as a model maker. While working for Gehry he became increasingly interested in photography, and left in 1985 to begin an architectural photography practice in New York City.
His photographs have been published in every major architecture magazine worldwide, and he has been commissioned to take photographs for several books, including monographs on Philip Johnson's Glass House, 20th Century Architecture in New York, and the work of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and Rafael Moneo. He has lived in Brooklyn for 16 years.
