Rising star Uta Barth is one of the most exciting and innovative artist/photographers in the world today-her enigmatic and beguiling images have again and again transfixed art audiences from London to Los Angeles. Barth's work draws its strength from its blurring of the familiar and strange, bringing the viewer to a liminal space between the two. It is in this space that Barth begins her investigation into the very nature of perception, where the epistemological importance of such formal qualities as lighting and composition becomes astoundingly evident. Uta Barth: In Between Spaces is the first comprehensive book on Barth's oeuvre, presenting a carefully selected survey of her works, and as such is a must-have for viewers, collectors and students attracted to contemporary art and photography. The poetic resonance, radical intelligence and sheer beauty of Barth's pictures are given perfect illustration in this book, designed with the artist herself. Uta Barth's work is represented in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, London, San Francisco, and Stockholm.
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Uta Barth was born in Berlin, Germany, and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues inlcuding the Whitney Museum; the Guggenheim Museum, New York;the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio; Parco Gallery, Tokyo; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK and the Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden. An upcoming project of hers will be exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and a traveling exhibition of her work is being organized by the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, scheduled to open in the Fall of 2000.
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An absolutely astonishing book, "In Bewteen Places" is the record of the exhibition of Barth's work on display in Seattle's Henry Art Gallery, as well as a very thorough record of her development over the last ten years. Her elegant, unsettling, serene, engaging images are shown here in full plates as well as details, many of which are interspersed throughout the book's excellent critical commentary. The criticism is well-reasoned and intelligent, but the images themselves are ravishing. I own two of her photographs, and the reproductions here are superb. At a time when art books in general, and photography books in particular, are expensive exercises in self-indulgence that are often ludicrous puff-piece advertisements for the galleries that sell the work, this book is a shining exception. It's truly worth the cost, and I highly recommend it.
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Uta Barth: In Between Places is a visually poetic catalogue produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in 2000. It is a stand alone work of art and a revealing reference about the artist. Containing a wealth of philosophical and methodological material, the questions Barth and the authors raise about her work persist beyond a one-time glance or read through.
If you are unfamiliar with Barth's work, the opening paragraph written by Curator Sheryl Conkelton provides an illuminating summary of Barth's progression and an examination of the formal conventions of image making in general. The three essays, authored by curators Sheryl Conkelton, Russell Ferguson and Timothy Martin compliment Barth's photographs by exploring perception as an active concept. Barth's artistic investigation is a visual equivalent to French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's The Phenomenology of Perception (1945) which expands upon the idea of awareness as an embodied intentionality whereby meaning is assigned to experience. Viewing Barth's out of focus images requires an active engagement with vision. Ground #30 (1994) from her Ground series is a painterly monochromatic image with hints of light and shadow that merely suggest a room's corner with a window. The blurred familiar prompts a self-reflective inquiry into the experiential mundane. This participation in the act of viewing begins to create a relationship between self as subject and self as object. The empty, nearly abstract views quietly compel closer examination. There is a seductive solitude in the barely recognizable. Barth fuses this quality of silence with consciousness in order to return us to our own vision.
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I bought this book for a research paper I had to write and all I can say is wow! I would look through it again and again in amazement at the soft focus photographs of a photo lacking a subject with blurred backgrounds. In my research paper I argued that you can not have a truely subjectless photograph because as long as there is visual information that engages the viewers eye there will be a subject because to define a photographic subject: it is whatever is in the photograph that engages the eye the most.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves photography, the prints inside the book are of high quality and the interview within the book is just as exciting as the photographs themselves.
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