 Roonee 247 solo exhibition: two series of photographic works created between the 1970s and 1990s: Waukegan Portraits and Cibachromes. Location: Roonee 247 Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan Date: April 4 - 16, 2023 In his third solo exhibition at the Roonee 247 fine arts gallery in Tokyo, after Fotogenic Nan Sen (2011) and Photography & Technology (2018), the American artist Jack Sal presents two series of photographic works created between the 1970s and 1990s: Waukegan Portraits and Cibachromes. Jack Sal began to take an interest in photography in the late 1960s, using the camera bought by his father in Germany immediately after the war; later he studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and at the Art Institute of Chicago with the masters of the School of the New Bauhaus of Chicago Ray K. Metzker and Ken Josephson. Starting in 1972 he created a series of works with the Polaroid SX-70 translating the outside world into matter, and then moved on to exploring the female body and internal spaces, thus demonstrating that the link with the physical world is subtle but profound, even in its most abstract state. Since the early 80s his photographic works have been included in exhibitions at the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Light Gallery in New York, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Photographers Gallery in London, the International Center of Photography / ICP in New York and have been the subject of a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Photography / George Eastman House in Rochester. In 2009 they were part of the group show The Edge of Vision at the Aperture Foundation in New York (curated by Lyle Rexer). In the 1980s he dealt with the language of photography also as curator of exhibitions at the Light Gallery in New York (Sol LeWitt Photographs 1985 and others) and collaborated with Mary Virginia Swanson on the archive work of the photos of the Magnum Agency (1984). From 1978 to 1995 he taught photography and visual arts at ICP New York, New York University, School of Visual Arts, Rutgars University. |
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