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Walead Beshty Untitled 2008 color photographic paper 46 x 29 3/4 in. (116.8 x 75.6 cm) Signed "Walead Beshty" on a label affixed to the reverse of the backing board.
Provenance WALLSPACE, New York Catalogue Essay Through a portal of endlessly overlapping geometric shapes, vibrant colors, and organic textures, Walead Beshty’s photograms transport viewers into an otherwise untapped world of heightened imagination and optical illusions. Inspired by the cameraless photographic method pioneered by early Twentieth Century artists László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, Beshty begins his artistic process with the historical technique of exposing photographic paper to light in order to produce a print. Beshty’s modern approach to this ready-made means of production involves repeatedly folding the paper until it becomes a complex surface of angles and planes, corners and creases, and then exposes it to light. Despite their flat, polished surface, Beshty’s photograms are dissimilar to photographs, instead depicting irreproducible material images of the process behind their very creation rather than arbitrarily recorded ones. Beshty is concerned not only with how art is made, but how this is also evident in the work itself. The present lot mesmerizes with its at once magical and scientific depiction of the creation of a rainbow. Untitled, 2006, highlights and brings to life the process of prism-like forms transforming natural white light into an array of constituent, dynamic spectral colors. It simultaneously explores how aesthetically beautiful imagery is both produced and experienced, blurring the line between creator and consumer. In this way, Untitled, 2006, is a perfect balance of Beshty’s artistic innovation and his creative engineering. Read More