Untitled, Rondônia
Richard Mosse
carlier | gebauer, Berlin | Madrid
- Title
- Untitled, Rondônia
- Gallery
- carlier | gebauer, Berlin | Madrid
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 8 min 4 s
- Format & Technical
4K video on mirrored ceiling installation, infinite stereo sound
- Richard Mosse, Untitled, Rondônia, 2024. Photo: Roman März / carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid
Richard Mosse’s video sculpture “Untitled, Rondônia”, while depicting environmental crimes and the erosion of human rights, does not strive for photorealism. Photographs from Mosse’s series “Tristes Tropique”, shot in Rondônia, were taken by fitting a camera to a drone. Flying it over sites of environmental crimes, it captured bandwidths of reflected light, many of which are invisible to the human eye. Mosse created dramatic topographies that are disorienting for anyone who doesn’t know how to read them but that reveal the scale of the brutal degradation of the Amazonian rainforest. And the many ways through which such catastrophe can be achieved: plantations of palm trees, intensive soy bean farming, cattle farms, illegal mining and other forms of environmental criminality. For his video sculpture “Untitled, Rondônia”, Mosse lifts this loss of orientation to a new level, literally immersing the viewer in a landscape of images being reflected in two connected mirrors.
Stills
Richard Mosse examines charged photographic technologies to create challenging documentary art about some of the world’s most pressing historic events as they unfold. He inflects his firsthand testimonial materials with political and ethical questions surrounding perception, representation, aesthetics, and mapping. In recent years, Mosse has focused on the multifaceted ecological, political and societal issues connected to the deforestation of the Amazonian region in Brazil. His immersive six-channel 16mm infrared film installation The Enclave was exhibited at the National Pavilion of Ireland during the 55th Venice Art Biennale. He has had solo exhibitions in venues such as The Barbican Center, London; Louisiana Museum of Modern Ar; FOAM, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Lille3000, Lille; Kunsthaus Graz; and MCA Chicago. Recent exhibitions include the RAY Triennial at MMK in Frankfurt and the Hamburg Triennial of Photography at Hamburger Kunsthalle.
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- Address
- Markgrafenstr 67, 10969 , Berlin | Madrid, Alemania
- Phone
- 911 544359
- mail@carliergebauer.com
- Website
- www.carliergebauer.com
Founded in 1991 and directed by Marie-Blanche Carlier and Ulrich Gebauer the gallery promotes international contemporary art and currently represents over 30 international artists. The program veers towards aesthetic and conceptual research in the fields of sculpture, installation, film, photography, painting, and drawing.
The gallery has proven to be a key platform for the artists’ development by producing crucial exhibitions for their career. A great number of the artists of the gallery have participated in major biennials and international exhibitions as well as having significant solo exhibitions in major international museums.