Gus Van Sant: Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, Czech Republic

Galerie Rudolfinum
Prague, Czech Republic
"Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited"
January 23 - April 6, 2014

The snapshot – a spontaneous capturing of a banal moment, minimally directed and with little regard for artistic or journalistic convention, full of red-eyes, severed heads, leaky shutters and drugstore hyper-saturation – forms a fundamental part of the photographic production throughout the 20th Century and today proliferates globally on social media. The exhibition tells the history of the snapshot aesthetic as a story of the provocative intimacy of a diary, the poetry of everyday life and the fast and catchy undercurrent of the street, periodically revitalizing rigid artistic and commercial practice with the primitive force of an unpremeditated gesture. Absurdity of the trivial, sex, parties, adolescent injuries, naivety, night swimming, intense feelings of now, houseplants, life in the media and through the media: the snapshot is the rock 'n’ roll of photography.

The exhibition features more than 200 works, including 6 digital pigment prints by Gus Van Sant.

The exhibition is curated by Michal Nanoru, who is also the author of a fully illustrated catalogue published by Galerie Rudolfinum.

http://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/en/exhibition/only-good-ones-snapshot-ae...