This is the first great retrospective in Europe on North American photographer Robert Adams (Orange, New Jersey, 1937), widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential chroniclers of the American West.
Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs will offer a unique opportunity to see Adam’s most important works. Each of Adam’s major projects will be represented, from his early pictures of quiet buildings and monuments erected by settlers of his native Colorado, continuing with selections from his acclaimed series The New West and Summer Nights, or his most recent images of beaches and migratory birds in the Pacific Northwest. Also, a wide range of texts taken from his writings, indispensable to understand his creative practice, will be included. The exhibition will feature nearly 300 photographs in black-and-white, dated between 1965 and 2007, proceeding from the Yale University Art Gallery, owner of the artist’s complete archive.
In a career spanning four decades, Adams has developed a photographic work known for its austerity. The show will trace through images the engagement between the artist and American life and his pursuit of redemptive light and beauty amidst mankind’s relationship with the natural world. Robert Adams: The Place We Live weaves together the diverse aspects of the photographer’s work into a cohesive epic of the American experience in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Dates.- 15 January – 20 May 2013.
Place.- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Building Sabatini. 3rd floor. Madrid.
CREDITS.
Organised by.- Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) in colaboration with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Curated by.- Joshua Chuang y Jock Reynolds.
Coordinated by.- Rafael García.
Itinerary.- Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Alemania (summer 2013) // Jeu de Paume, París (autumn 2013) // Media Space, Londres (spring 2014) // Fotomuseum Winterthur, Suiza (summer 2014).
