“In light, black, colour, white, and dark”, Solo Exhibition by Jeff Wall

Exhibitions
February 4, 2012 - April 1, 2012
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The PinchukArtCentre presents the first solo exhibition by the Canadian artist Jeff Wall in Eastern Europe. The show entitled In light, black, colour, white, and dark includes 16 photographs and 7 light boxes. The exhibition is a special artist selection composing in each room delicate relations between nature, still lives and the young people on the borderline between young and mature. 

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Wall’s work seems to have a continuing fascination with the tableau – the picture that hangs independently on a wall and shows us something unique and significant. Wall is prominent among the artists who over the past thirty years have brought the qualities of the tableau into photography, creating compositions that depict modern life in a manner once seemingly the province of painting alone.

Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “Jeff Wall is a picture maker telling us in fascinating details the richness of our world.”

With his project the PinchukArtCentre brings together a number of Wall’s most recent works alongside a selection of his earlier pictures. The exhibition includes iconic works such as War game (2007) as well as light boxes and new opaque colour photographs, among them the monumental Band & crowd, one of his largest works.

Jeff Wall. Burrow, 2004; War Game, 2007
silver gelatin print

Jeff Wall. Figures on a sidewalk, 2008; Burrow, 2004
Jeff Wall. Pawn shop, 2009; Young man wet with rain, 2011
Jeff Wall. Young man wet with rain, 2011; Band & crowd, 2011

Jeff Wall. Boxing, 2011; Pawn shop, 2009; Young man wet with rain, 2011

Jeff Wall. Boxing, 2011
inkjet print
Jeff Wall. Pawn shop, 2009
inkjet print

Jeff Wall. Band & crowd, 2011
c-print

Jeff Wall. Young man wet with rain, 2011
silver gelatin print


Jeff Wall. Figures on a sidewalk, 2008
inkjet print

Jeff Wall. Burrow, 2004
silver gelatin print

Jeff Wall. Diagonal Composition no. 3, 2000; Diagonal Composition no. 2, 1998
transparency in lightbox
Jeff Wall. Blind window no. 2, 2000
transparency in lightbox


Jeff Wall. Diagonal Composition, 1993; Blind window no.1, 2000
transparency in lightbox

Jeff Wall. Searcher, 2007
inkjet print

Jeff Wall. Men move an engine block, 2008, silver gelatin print; Intersection, 2008, inkjet print
Jeff Wall. Siphoning fuel, 2008
inkjet print

Jeff Wall, Installation View at the PinchukArtCentre
Poppies in a garden, 2005
Jeff Wall. Poppies in a garden, 2005
transparency in lightbox

Jeff Wall. A sapling held by a post, 2000
c-print on paper


Jeff Wall. Fieldwork. Excavation of the floor of a dwelling in a former Sto:lo nation village, Greenwood Island, Hope, B.C., August, 2003
transparency in lightbox
Jeff Wall. Coastal Motifs, 1989
transparency in lightbox

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Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2012. Photographed by Sergey Illin
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