Jeff Cowen at Villa Dagmar
JEFF COWEN
Untitled [W-Series 524] 2017
Silver gelatin print 40 × 30 cm unique silver gelatin print, edition of 1, mounted in a walnut frame with passe-partout - size with frame 60 x 50 cm. 9.000 EUR + VAT
Courtesy WILLAS contemporary
A new collaboration with Villa Dagmar in Stockholm. This newly opened boutique hotel in heart of Östermalm invites galleries and artists to collaborate in the social spaces of the hotel. We chose works by the Berlin-based New Yorker Jeff Cowen as our first showcase.
A selection of 3 painterly works focused on the artist’s lifelong investigation exploring the conceptual and technical potential of photography, an art form that is still in its early evolutionary stages. Cowen’s work examines the poetics of the non-visible world by means of mating the power of photography and painting. The image taken by the camera is not the final product but marks only the starting point of the artistic reflection of the motif.
The unique analog prints are attacked with various chemical procedures, mark-making, and brushwork, and often contain post-darkroom finishing techniques of painting and collage. The images are not presented flat and take on a more three-dimensional, sculptural, and textural look. Paradoxically, Cowen´s photographic work is less concerned with the ephemeral than it is with reflecting the unknown and eternal realms.
JEFF COWEN
Untitled [W-Series 458] 2017
Silver gelatin print 40 × 30 cm unique silver gelatin print, edition of 1, mounted in a walnut frame with passe-partout - size with frame 60 x 50 cm. Courtesy WILLAS contemporary
JEFF COWEN
Untitled [W-Series 526] 2017
Silver gelatin print 40 × 30 cm unique silver gelatin print, edition of 1, mounted in a walnut frame with passe-partout - size with frame 60 x 50 cm. Courtesy WILLAS contemporary
Other works by Jeff Cowen
