Matthew Albanese: Strange Worlds
The exhibition that opened earlier this week at Winkleman Gallery in NY, a group show of young American photographers, could very well have passed you by as much of the work looks very young indeed. One photographer hasn’t yet outgrown his David Hockney polaroid phase while another is inexplicably stuck making Rorscharch tests. The one standout is Matthew Albanese (previously mentioned by Matthew Rodriguez), whose staged, model-based photographs arrest and confuse the viewer for that one extra moment it takes to really get hooked by an image. (To clarify, model-based meaning a physical model of an environment not a human model.)
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Matthew Albanese builds miniatures of extremely realistic looking natural landscapes using surprising materials. At first glance, they appear to be real photographs of natural phenomenons, but for example, the fierce tornado above was created using “steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss.” I also like his Martian surface built from “12 pounds paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg, [...]
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