Uta Barth: a Brief Light Reflection

Fourteen pieces belonging to three series created between 2011 and 2012, signed by L.A.-based German photographer Uta Barth, are being exposed since May 23 at the Elvira Gonzalez Gallery in Madrid.

Thus, Barth is accomplishing her first individual exhibit in Spain as a continuation of her former work with pieces that resulted from light experiments reflected through drapes and nearly imperceptibly modified in daily homerooms. “I’m into shades, subtleness, fleeting moments, information and everything we virtually ignore every day,” she says in an interview with art critic George Stolz. “I want to come up with images out of sheer light, from the spaces in negative, the space volumes, rather than the walls containing it. I want images that capture and send time into slow motion; that also put our process of relating to art into slow motion and change our way of interacting with what we do and see on a daily basis.”

Unlike her former projects, these three series consist of the artist’s interaction and manipulation of light by shaping up different abstractions. The drape images run freely and pan out to be something that reminds us of the act of drawing or the practice of calligraphy.

Uta Barth (Berlin, 1958) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exposed in New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Dusseldorf and San Francisco, among other cities.

Her work is represented in some of the greatest contemporary art collections worldwide, such as London’s Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Jumex Collection in Mexico or the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami.

Elvira Gonzalez Gallery
Calle del General Castaños, 9
28004 Madrid

Source: Press release