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FLASHES OF LIGHT.(Jeff Wall )
The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the resourceful Vancouver photographic artist Jeff Wall is richly uneven. It suggests less a career than a case history, tracking an intellectually ambitious, morally earnest perfectionist through the fevers and chills of latter-day avant-gardism, in which he has starred for nearly three decades. Rarely are viewers permitted to relax and enjoy the intrinsic gorgeousness of Wall's signature medium--big color transparencies of cinematically staged, often digitally jiggered scenes, mounted on fluorescent light boxes. The prevailing style is realist, but it is regularly beset by mixed, toilsome aims: Wall has harbored enough motives ...
- Jeff Wall.
- Magazine article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine Beaupré, Marie-Eve April 1, 2006 700+ words
Jeff Wall Photographs 1978-2004 30 avril-25 september...tentait de persuader le photographe canadien Jeff Wall de s'approprier les cimaises de l'institution...fois de l'art et de son propre travail, Jeff Wall s'intressa plus spcifiquement la photographie...
- Quiet color.(Jeff Wall's exhibit)
- Magazine article from: Afterimage Miller, Kristin January 1, 2008 700+ words
JEFF WALL ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO...particularly drawn to Jeff Wall's large-scale photographs...comprehensive voice to Wall's lengthy career...at the photographs. Wall's images are stark...color creeps up the walls. Interestingly enough...
- The great Wall: toiling in Vancouver, far from the art capitals, Jeff Wall has...
- Magazine article from: W Belcove, Julie L. October 1, 2002 700+ words
Jeff Wall unlocks the gates to his two photography...is almost as old as photography itself, Wall's painstakingly seamless execution of...There are a few established facts about Jeff Wall and his work. He displays most of his photographs...
- Jeff Wall photos akin to European paintings.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 5, 2007 700+ words
...Byline: Alan G. Artner Jul. 5--Jeff Wall is one of those rare artists whom...at every stage of their creation, Wall was equally concerned with theory...pictures. aartner@tribune.com "Jeff Wall" continues at the Art Institute...
- Jeff Wall: Schaulager.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Scharrer, Eva November 1, 2005 700+ words
As Jeff Wall remarked about this retrospective at the press conference, it's most likely...biggest show he'll ever have. And, indeed, with seventy-two works "Jeff Wall: Photographs, 1978-2004" brought together more than half of the artist...
- Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 Tate Modern, London.
- Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art Krstich, Vesna March 22, 2006 700+ words
...year, a comprehensive survey of Jet Wall's photographs travelled from Schaulager...Switzerland to the Tare Modern in London. Jeff Wall's Cibachromes mounted in light boxes...retrospective highlight the past 25 years of Wall's career. Senior curator Sheena...
- THE HOLE TRUTH.(Jeff Wall)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International TUMLIR, JAN WALL, JEFF March 1, 2001 700+ words
...in a relatively compact area. Jeff Wall has lived in the Canadian metropolis...them. This interview took place in Wall's studio, located in Vancouver...in the picture in its entirety. JEFF WALL: The "event" shown in The Flooded...
- Jeff Wall. (photographer)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Criqui, Jean-Pierre March 1, 1996 700+ words
...match the background, the light-box Jeff Wall has unswervingly employed in his work...Given all this, one may well that Wall has never replaced it with a a cumbersome...forced to hear all about it). But Wall seems fond of these vitrines, with...