Tuesday 27 November 2012

Review of Brush It In at Flowers Kingsland Road


27/11/12
Brush It In
Group Show curated by Lorenzo Durantini
Flowers, 82 Kingsland Road
26 October – 22 December 2012 (extended run)

The title is both the key to and the stumbling block of this group exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Durantini, currently on show at Flowers, Kingsland Road. “Brush it in” is a colloquial expression for a wide variety of post-production alterations which can be carried out on digital photographs, but it is perhaps somewhat misleading given that most of the works in this show have not actually been manipulated post-production at all. Rather, they explore and exploit the realms of what would or could be done using Photoshop or other similar techniques, instigating, in the words of Durantini, “the beginnings of a post-Photoshop engagement with photography, [whereby] photographic manipulation as a physical wet process becomes digital and immaterial only to be re-materialised as physical and sculptural interventions.”



To read the rest of this review, please go to: http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2012/11/brush-it-in-2/

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