Paul Elliman : Untitled (September Magazine)

4 Sep-3 Oct 2015

Overview

Carl Freedman Gallery presents "Untitled (September Magazine)" (2015), an immersive large-scale video projection of hundreds of photographs appropriated from the pages of glossy magazines. Heavily cropped and devoid of any text, they show male and female bodies, clothed and naked, mostly headless and always faceless. As page after page of abstracted limbs and bodies appear on the screen, a typography of sorts begins to emerge from the accumulative assembly of letters, symbols and glyphs. In its book form, "Untitled (September Magazine" (published by The Vanity Press, London and Roma Publications, Amsterdam in 2013) was awarded the prestigious Stiftung Buchkunst ‘Best Book Design in the World 2015’. Elliman has exhibited widely including prestigious shows at MoMA and the New Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London) and Kunsthalle Basel. He has contributed essays to many international journals and magazines, and in 1997 he was appointed to the Yale faculty where he is currently a visiting critic in the School of Art. His show at Carl Freedman Gallery will be his first major presentation of work in London.