Exhibition
The Bridge and Black Walls
18 May 2015 – 23 May 2015
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 51 Southwark Street
- London
- SE1 1RU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- RV1 and 381
- London Bridge
- London Bridge
Respected American photographer Robert Gumpert's latest show – a stunning collection featuring powerful & intriguing images of a neglected bridge in west London
About
Anyone familiar with London’s Westbourne Bridge knows there’s not much of beauty there. Sadly neglected and bearing the scars of time and weather it provides a useful link to and from Little Venice or Maida Vale, but is not a bridge that gives much pause for thought.
This was not the case, however, for California-based Robert Gumpert, who for many years has been acclaimed for his bold photojournalism, which has appeared internationally in newspapers and magazines including The Guardian and Granta.
“The Bridge” is a departure from photojournalism – an exhibition of beautifully abstracted colour photographs of the characteristic patchwork of paint and rust with its strange patterns and recurring shapes, which make up the eroded fabric of the bridge. Over a period of seven years, Robert visited Paddington on each trip to the capital, building up a bank of images to work with. He enlarges and manipulates these photographs in his studio, then pairs them. The images are intriguing and arresting, with a painterly quality that makes them difficult to categorise and a mysterious beauty which evokes an immediate response.
In our metropolis, where a new building seems to hit the skyline every fortnight, these extraordinary images encapsulate the beauty that is already here. The beauty that is present in the shabby and the familiar, if we just take the time to look.
The Bridge is showing alongside Black Walls (a smaller project shot in industrial areas of San Francisco) in the Lower Gallery at the Menier, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU from May 18th - 23rd 2015
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