post-title John Divola | Vandalism | Robert Morat Galerie | 07.09.-19.10.2019

John Divola | Vandalism | Robert Morat Galerie | 07.09.-19.10.2019

John Divola | Vandalism | Robert Morat Galerie | 07.09.-19.10.2019

John Divola | Vandalism | Robert Morat Galerie | 07.09.-19.10.2019

until 19.10. | #2546ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from 7. September 2019 the exhibition Vandalism by the photographer John Divola.

In the early 1970s, Californian photographer John Divola was one of the first to question the limits of his medium, exploring concepts of sculpture, installation, performance and intervention in his iconic, formative series „Vandalism“ (1973-1975). Robert Morat Gallery is thrilled to be able to show this important body of work in Berlin.

Between 1973 and 1975, the American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – travelled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalised vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins, and torn arrangements of card, before cataloguing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach with staged interventions echoing performance, sculpture and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices, at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question, Vandalism helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language.

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John Divola – Vandalism Series 1973 – 1975, 64 x 61,5 cm, Gelatin Silver Print, in various editions 

John Divola (American, b. 1949), one of the most distiguished visual artists of his generation, earned a BA from California State University, Northridge (1971) and an MA from University of California, Los Angeles (1973). His images challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality, as well as the limitations of art to describe life. Vandalism (1974-1975) is one of Divola’s earliest series, predating Zuma (1979), As Far as I Could Get (1997) and Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (2004). His work exhibited internationally and found in important public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Getty Museum in LA, the V&A in London or the Whitney Museum in New York.

Vandalism, the book accompanying the exhibition, was published by MACK Books, London in 2018.

Vernissage: Friday, 6 September 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Exhibition period: Saturday, 7 September 2019 to Saturday, 19 October 2019

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