The Groeflin Maag Galerie is pleased to present Portrait Studio, a fantastic
new body of work by Daniel Gordon (*1980, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York).
This is the third exhibition of the young, remarkable photographer at the gallery.
The 15 impressive photographs have originated in an elaborate working process,
where Gordon, always in search of intriguing material, intensely rummages
through the World Wide Web. He prints out thrilling pictures, trims them with
a scalpel and constructs his own worlds; 3-dimensional sceneries, in which
pieced together full-size human creatures and body parts are posing. During
the working process the created figures attain human presence and loll
gracefully like muses in front of the artist’s lens.
The photographs incorporate different takes on classic artist/muse relationships
in literature and history, from Frankenstein to the inspiration Alfred Stieglitz
found through Georgia O'Keefe. I have attempted to bring to life these cobbled
together images of body parts through the magic of photography; with the
acceptance that the human form can be simultaneously beautiful and terrifying,
loved and exploited.
Daniel Gordon