The End
2002 - Photography (Photography)
103 x 137 cm
Dennis Adams
Observing the sky after 11 September 2001, Dennis Adams photographed elements which had been lifted by drafts and were floating above the city of New York. The artist was only able to identify the objects after developing and enlarging the prints: you can read “He’s no terrorist”. The front page of the newspaper thrusts back to ‘the event’ of the 21st century and is revealed only through the detailed observation of the image; the painful twist of the newspaper could be a rustling wing. The simplicity of the process gives the work a poetic and prophetic dimension: a slight debris of a society, suspended between the sky and the earth in a blue infinite, sad news taken elsewhere, pieces of paper disintegrating. Violence, fracas and horror are audible in the silence of the image. These debris are transfigured into the silence of the victims flying towards a blue eternity. The artist pays a modest and painful homage. There is no taking sides, no judgment, just a flight in the sky. Dennis Adams sounds out collective memory, the public sphere, the urban context in their relations to art.
Since 1998, through site specific works, often in public spaces, or video works, Dennis Adams focuses on ambiguous characters, condemned by our recent history, revealing traumas or collective amnesia phenomena. The specific episodes from 20th or 21st century history he refers to find a relevance in today’s sensitive actuality. Dennis Adams plays with the ideological power of images, by referring to cinema and media images, yet leaving their meaning open to interpretation: he does not state clearly his political stance, but underlines the complexity of history and lets the spectator form his own opinion. Dennis Adams was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1948. He lives and works in New York
Colors:
Related works sharing similar palette
© » KADIST
Minia Biabiany
2019Qui vivra verra, Qui mourra saura is an installation by Minia Biabiany composed of the plan of a house made out of strips of salt, and a “garden” made of ceramic pieces, hanging from the ceiling and on the floor, and non woven fabric...
© » THE ARTBLOG
Artblog | Syd Carpenter! Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Clay Studio, Gees Bend, and Opportunity! Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Syd Carpenter! Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Clay Studio, Gees Bend, and Opportunity! By Roberta January 24, 2024 Many congratulations to Syd Carpenter, artist of enormous talent, dedication and generosity, and now, a Fellow in the College of Fellows, American Craft Council! Also, we are interested in the reshuffling and upstaffing at the PMA and wonder what will change...
© » THE ARTBLOG
Artblog | Five Decades of Abstraction in a revelatory exhibit at Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Five Decades of Abstraction in a revelatory exhibit at Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg By Dereck Stafford Mangus November 30, 2023 Artblog contributor Dereck Mangus, who is based in Baltimore, visits the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg and finds excellence in a wide-ranging exhibit of modern and contemporary abstract art...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content What is this show? Rei Poh (Rei): During the Circuit Breaker when we had a sudden lockdown, we decided to start online game nights where we could just play games, and actually give ourselves a reason to check in with one another, make sure everybody is okay...
© » THE ARTBLOG
Artblog | Talking with Diane Burko and Judy Brodsky about FOCUS (1974) and (re)FOCUS (2024), two major women’s art festivals Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Talking with Diane Burko and Judy Brodsky about FOCUS (1974) and (re)FOCUS (2024), two major women’s art festivals By Susan Isaacs January 24, 2024 Susan Isaacs's interview with the two founders of the FOCUS festival, staged in Philadelphia in 1974 provides insights into the origins and significance of (re)FOCUS 2024, a celebration marking 50 years of women in the visual arts...
© » THE ARTBLOG
Artblog | Congrats Karyn Olivier and James Claiborne! Flex Fund grants, Plus Opportunity! Artblog Celebrating 20 Years! Support Us Today! Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Features Reviews News Community About Advertise Donate Contact Congrats Karyn Olivier and James Claiborne! Flex Fund grants, Plus Opportunity! By Roberta January 31, 2024 Congratulations Karyn Olivier, selected for the Whitney Biennial and Prospect New Orleans 6, two prestigious international roundups that hundreds of thousands of people see...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
Migrant Ecologies Project: A Grain of Wheat Inside a Salt Water Crocodile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Grain of Wheat July 8, 2019 For the benefit of the possible intelligences that may find these treasures after humans have long gone, we have translated one of the photographs of our wheat gleaning ceremony in Singapore into binary code...
© » KADIST
Laurent Montaron
2006This film refers directly and fictionally to one of the first media dramas: the burning of the Zeppelin aircraft LZ 129 Hindenburg as it landed in New York in 1937...
© » ARTSJOURNAL
Louvre To Hike Admission Price Ahead of 2024 Summer Olympics – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Tessa Solomon Plus Icon Tessa Solomon Reporter, ARTnews View All December 11, 2023 2:57pm Tourists walk past the Louvre Pyramid, designed by Chinese architect Ieoh Ming Pei at the Louvre museum in central Paris on September 21, 2023...
© » KADIST
Juan Araujo
2006Many of Araujo’s works depict reproductions and Libro Ponti II is a recreation of a book on Italian architect Gio Ponti...
© » KADIST
Olive Martin & Patrick Bernier: New Kahnawaké “From my house I take the Proxad, Nantes and Brittany, to Paris where I get on the Teleglobe which takes me to Montreal via New York, and then finally take the Mohawk which drops me off at the 7 Sultans Casino” (extract from the commentary based on an internet connection route plotted by Traceroute*) The Mohawk, the emblematic Frontier River named during the period of American colonization...
© » ARTS EQUATOR
Weekly Picks: Indonesia (18 - 24 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do March 18, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bandung and Jakarta from 18-24 March 2019 In Bandung, catch the last couple days of the Bandung Contemporary Art Award (BaCAA) exhibition: Assemblage ...