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WILLIAM EGGLESTON: Election Eve G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y 7 November 2011 PRESS RELEASE GAGOSIAN GALLERY PARIS PROJECT SPACE 4 RUE DE PONTHIEU T. +33.1.75.00.05.92 75008 PARIS F. +33.1.70.24.87.10 HOURS: Tue–Sat 11:00am–7:00pm WILLIAM EGGLESTON: Election Eve Wednesday, 9 November–Friday, 23 December 2011 Opening reception: Tuesday, November 8th, from 6 to 8 pm I am at war with the obvious. —William Eggleston Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of William Eggleston in Los Angeles with an exhibition of photographs selected from the Election Eve series of 1976. These photographs have never been editioned. Eggleston’s unique ability to conflate the epic and the everyday has made him one of the most impactful figures in late twentieth century photography. A native Southerner, Eggleston first began photographing his local environment in the 1950s, experimenting with black-and-white photography. Seeking to record his observations in a more heightened and accurate way, he began to use color technology in the late 1960s, a medium that at the time was confined largely to commercial uses. Through the use of the dye-transfer color-printing process, he was able to achieve the strikingly vivid, saturated color that became one of the hallmarks of his oeuvre. Eggleston is largely credited with legitimizing color photography as a fine art form, as well as pioneering a style that derives its power from a refined form of spontaneous observation. In landscapes, cityscapes, street scenes, roadside scenes, at every sort of public converging point, both in long view and arrest close-up, he sets forth the elements, events, and personalities of an ordinary world. His subject matter, such as the interiors of motel rooms and abandoned storefronts, are seemingly situational, based on everyday observations. Yet his eccentric compositional structure creates a world of intangible mystery and unexpected beauty which, however strange and uncanny, is unquestionable in its veracity. (Continue to page 2) 4 R U E D E P O N T H I E U - 7 5 0 0 8 P A R I S T . + 3 3 (0) 1 75 0 0 0 5 9 2 F . + 3 3 (0) 1 7 0 2 4 8 7 1 0 P A R I S @ G A G O S I A N . C O M W W W . G A G O S I A N . C O M G A G O S I A N G A L L E R Y Eggleston’s Election Eve photographs were taken prior to the 1976 presidential election in Plains, Georgia, the rural seat of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, and along the road from Memphis, Tennessee. They present as captured moments of tranquility in a specific time and place, the calm before the storm of political change. Largely empty spaces, as in Untitled (pole with shed) (1976), Untitled (yellow café) (1976) and Untitled (Dino gas pump) (1976), resonate with memory and optimistic potential. Embracing both the suggestive and the banal, Untitled (‘Jimmy Carter’ bumper) (1976) centers on a dusty, vacant parking lot and a bumper sticker that announces the national expectation that hung over Sumter County that day. In Untitled (porch/vases/foot) (1976) and Untitled (road with yellow lines) (1976), scenes of dirt roads, wooden porches and rolling farmland convey a true-to-life portrait of a small country town, devoid of the stylization so omnipresent in media coverage. The freedom and congeniality conveyed by the loosely framed portraits are hallmarks of Eggleston’s working style, the result of a steadfastly democratic vision and a poetic eye. William Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. He studied at Vanderbilt University, Delta State College and the University of Mississippi. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide including “William Eggleston and the Color Tradition,” the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (1999); “William Eggleston,” Foundation Cartier, Paris (2001, traveled to Hayward Gallery, London); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); “William Eggleston: Los Alamos,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2002, traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serravles, Portugal; National Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Albertina, Vienna, Austria; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX through 2005); and “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video 1961-2008,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008, traveled to the Haus de Kunst, Munich; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; and the Art Institute of Chicago through 2010). Press Enquiries Claudine Colin Communication Contact: Dorelia Baird-Smith 28 rue de Sévigné 75004 Paris E. [email protected] T. +33.1.42.72.60.01 WWW.CLAUDINECOLIN.COM For all other information please contact the gallery at [email protected] or at +33.1.75.00.05.92. 4 R U E D E P O N T H I E U - 7 5 0 0 8 P A R I S T . + 3 3 (0) 1 75 0 0 0 5 9 2 F . + 3 3 (0) 1 7 0 2 4 8 7 1 0 P A R I S @ G A G O S I A N . C O M W W W . G A G O S I A N . C O M .
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