Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present HYPER, an exhibition of 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and cont... Read more
Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present HYPER, an exhibition of 15 color photographs by the forty-eight year old French photographer Denis Darzacq. HYPER refers to the new garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen where consumer goods, brightly packaged and presented, make for a vivid and contemporary backdrop for his pictures. Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit.
Laurence Miller Gallery will simultaneously present BODY LANGUAGE, a selection of twenty historic photographs that celebrates the language of forms created by the body in motion. Included are a mid-1970’s Garry Winogrand of leaping cheerleaders, the classic 1926 Andre Kertesz “Satiric Dancer,” two “divers” by Aaron Siskind from his series “The Terrors and Pleasures of Levitation,” a Jerry Uelsmann nude floating over the sea, and Helen Levitt’s wonderful view of two uninhibited children dancing in the street.
