Curtis Mann
@ Kavi Gupta
Curtis Mann: A Matter of Structure, Kavi Gupta's third solo exhibition of the L.A. based artist will open this Saturday.
Through out several bodies of work over the last few years, Mann has pushed the physical limits of photography. Drawing attention to the medium’s material and chemical qualities, Curtis Mann’s approach to art making stems from both his previous occupation as an engineer and his earliest exposure to visual art, the work of Gordon Matta-Clark. Deconstruction and a desire to understand the structure and utility of material has inspired Mann, whether it be through bleaching and chemically altering the image surface of photos to scratching and puncturing the photo-paper itself, to engage photography beyond its convention as mere image and draw attention and inspire new conversations concerning the medium’s relationship to material, technicality, and actual physical space.
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