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WOUTER DERUYTTER
February 2, 2008
Press Release
February 2, 2008
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WOUTER DERUYTTER
Wicked Creek
April 17 – May 24, 2008
In the Main Gallery, Light & Sie is proud to present “Wicked Creek,” a new series of color photographs by noted Belgian artist, Wouter Deruytter. Executed in the summer of 2007, these images document the Montana fires and the valiant firefighters who fought them. Presented primarily as diptychs, triptychs and even the occasional quadratych and quintriptych, these extremely heartfelt and often moving images recount the continuing story of man’s perpetual conflict with the elements and our need to tame nature itself.
Invoking a long tradition of imagery from artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, Deruytter seeks to draw us closer to the environment and urges us to re-find our respect for the majesty of our land. Philosophically akin to Whitman and Thoreau, these works seem at once out of fashion and yet, timely in its message of simplicity. Deruytter lushly bathes his subjects in warm tones of color, all the time posturing the real impetus for producing this series: This is our home, and this is its cycle of regeneration.
Wouter Deruytter was born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1967, and attended The Royal Academy of Art in Ghent. He is the author of numerous photography books such as Cowboy Code (Arena Editions) and Nazar (Aperture Publications). He has been the subject of several solo museum exhibitions including at the Musei Centrale Montemartini in Rome, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York.
For more information, and/or to receive a press kit, please contact Andrew Sie or Scott Hilton at (214) 745-2255. Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM until 5 PM.
WOUTER DERUYTTER
Wicked Creek
April 17 – May 24, 2008
In the Main Gallery, Light & Sie is proud to present “Wicked Creek,” a new series of color photographs by noted Belgian artist, Wouter Deruytter. Executed in the summer of 2007, these images document the Montana fires and the valiant firefighters who fought them. Presented primarily as diptychs, triptychs and even the occasional quadratych and quintriptych, these extremely heartfelt and often moving images recount the continuing story of man’s perpetual conflict with the elements and our need to tame nature itself.
Invoking a long tradition of imagery from artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, Deruytter seeks to draw us closer to the environment and urges us to re-find our respect for the majesty of our land. Philosophically akin to Whitman and Thoreau, these works seem at once out of fashion and yet, timely in its message of simplicity. Deruytter lushly bathes his subjects in warm tones of color, all the time posturing the real impetus for producing this series: This is our home, and this is its cycle of regeneration.
Wouter Deruytter was born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1967, and attended The Royal Academy of Art in Ghent. He is the author of numerous photography books such as Cowboy Code (Arena Editions) and Nazar (Aperture Publications). He has been the subject of several solo museum exhibitions including at the Musei Centrale Montemartini in Rome, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York.
For more information, and/or to receive a press kit, please contact Andrew Sie or Scott Hilton at (214) 745-2255. Gallery hours are: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM until 5 PM.
