Security Guard And His Girlfriend ,1997
Provenienza : [Propriété non datée]
- Private collection, Cape Town
Exhibited : Gagosian Gallery, New York, 'Outland', 10 January to 16 February 2002, another example from the edition exhibited.
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Note : Another example from the edition is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA.
'A wiry, older man with a pixie haircut bends over a bed, imitating a spider. A scrap collector stands on a disintegrating foam mattress, contemplating a globe –an Atlas of the junkyard with a sleeping Doberman at his feet. A short and stern security guard poses in David Hockney glasses, his nightstick upright as his girlfriend, her eyes and face broadened by even thicker lenses, sits complacently on the edge of their bed. In Roger Ballen's photographs, the sitters are fundamentally linked to their environment, gods born from the walls, floors and furniture. Ballen's photographs convey sitters whose unique disposition in life seems to have sculpted their bodies. However, they also rely upon an exquisitely rigorous formal approach, mixing a draftsman's eye for line and detail with the documentary photographer's obsession for veracity with universal appeal. Included will be portraits, interiors and still-lifes executed between the mid-1980s and today, many of which have never before been exhibited or published.
Ballen has been short-listed for the prestigious Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize, to be awarded in London in February 2002. Outland recently won The Best Photographic Book of the Year award at PhotoEspana 2001. Ballen's photographs are the subjects of four previous volumes including Platteland, Images of a Rural South Africa and Cette Afrique là. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Kunsthaus, Zürich; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris and others.' [1]
[1] Roger Ballen: OUTLAND, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, January 10–February 16, 2002 | Gagosian (2018). Available at: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2002/roger-ballen-outland/ (Accessed: 13 October 2022).
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