Delphine Burtin & Fernand Fonssagrives
Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce the first show of photographs in the United States by Swiss-French artist Delphine Burtin. Simon Baker of the Tate Modern has called Burtin's work "seductive and highly intelligent.”
Duchamp's readymades meet Burroughs' cut-ups in Encouble. Merging photography with collage and construction, Burtin’s art blurs the line between image and sculpture, between intention and, in the artist’s phrase, “accident.”
Also on display in the Project Space: Light Perspectives, a selection of images from renowned mid-century “beauty photographer” Fernand Fonssagrives. Though dating from the late ’30s to early ’50s and made with conventional photographic processes, these images are as fresh and rewarding as any digitally enhanced photograph being made today.
