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Tony Berlant
Lair

In stock

Year 2016

Medium Photography mounted on aluminium

Dimensions 63 x 58 x 0,5 cm

Edition 10

This series of photographs represents the artist's large collages, inspired by the landscapes of Château La Coste. The disoriented perspectives and fractured images can disorient the viewer between real and unreal. Berlant uses original colours to increase these sensations tenfold. Seeing a sunny path, leading sinuously around the trees, or the feet of the vines, the viewer tries to understand what they see, drawn in by the image and connected by their individual understanding.

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The Artist

Tony Berlant is a contemporary American artist known for his mixed-media sculptural collages. Laboriously composed from photo-printed plywood, tin scraps, and metal sheets, the artist reassembles the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle. Reordered, the works transform into ecstatic abstractions, flowers, and surreal landscapes. Far from the galleries and art dealers of New York, Berlant was one of many artists and architects living in California in the 1960s who enjoyed a freedom to explore innovative approaches to their work. Interacting at the built environment around them, they looked to materials such as plastic and steel, and trends in the auto and surf industries for inspiration. The friendships which developed through the mingling of artists and architects on the West Coast at the time led to the sharing of ideas and collaborations for years to come. Frank Gehry’s career as an architect was particularly influenced by this time in Los Angeles, and his interactions with artists in Venice, California. During this time of artistic exchange in California, Berlant took part in a groundbreaking group show of pop art created by west-coast artists at the Oakland Museum of Art in 1963 titled “Pop Art USA”, a pioneering exhibition The exhibition included Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg. Born in New York in 1941, Tony Berlant lives and works in Santa Monica, California

Technical informations

Artists Tony Berlant

Name of the work Lair

Year 2016

Medium Photography mounted on aluminium

Edition 10

Dimensions 63 x 58 x 0,5 cm

Signed Yes

Numbered Yes

Certificate of authenticity No

Artwork

This series of photographs are derived from Berlants large scale collages of the landscape of Château La Coste. The distorted perspective and the fractured images can disorientate the viewer, blending the real and the unreal. Berlant’s use of hallucinatory colours heightens this sensation. Whether looking at a sunlit path winding its way through the trees, or the roots of the vines themselves, the viewer attempts to comprehend what they are seeing and is drawn in to the image, connecting with it through their individual understanding.