'Fugitive' by James Casebere at Haus der Kunst

10 February 2016

From 12 Feburary - 12 June 2016, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany presents 'Fugitive', a solo exhibition by James Casebere.

Casebere's photographic works explore a range of architectural subjects, from domestic settings, flooded corridors of grand mansions and the bare spaces of prison interiors, to Moorish and Islamic architecture, ancient water tunnels in Bologna and the Jewish Ghetto in Venice. These images, however, emerge from a singular approach of production: they are photographs of detailed, self-made architectural models in which completely imagined and fabricated scenes are subsequently transposed into a pictorial record. Casebere thus generates images that hover somewhere between the fugitive and the sublime, between the representational and the staged.

With more than 70 works, 'Fugitive' presents images drawn from all periods of Casebere's career, alongside four new site-specific works in the form of friezes in the gallery's grand staircase. The survey includes recent large multi-panel and single-panel colour photographic works; early black-and-white gelatin silver prints, dye destruction prints, waterless lithographs, and Polaroid prints. The exhibition also showcases for the first time Casebere's working notebooks, a series of collages and an extensive collection of never before seen Polaroid studies of individual works as they change through various stages of production to the finished single image.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue edited by Okwui Enewzor, with essays by Enwezor, Caleb Smith, and Brian Wallis.

For more information, please visit: http://www.hausderkunst.de/en/agenda/detail/james-casebere-fugitive/

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