Detail of photograph by Jeff Wall. Looks a lot like an archeological excavation. But, then again, after a month in Rome every landscape starts to look like a ruin waiting to be dug up. (Photos by San Suzie.)
Rome’s Galleria Lorcan O’Neill in trendy Trastevere was buzzing with the local glitterati for the opening of a new show of Jeff Wall photographs last Thursday night. The big (okay, wall-sized, can’t help myself!) black and white silver gelatin prints were mainly landscapes of one sort or another. All in all a nice show in a cool setting — it’s not often that you get to see contemporary art in a building that’s about the same vintage as Michelangelo. For those of you who think that art begins with Picasso, that’s about 1500 (which, in these parts, is considered modern).
The show is up through Nov. 29th.
Click on images to supersize. More after the jump.
Overheard at the Jeff Wall show: “Well, I can see that he’s living up to his name.”
Overheard in this quadrant: “Everyone is moving to Bushwick these days.” “Yeah, I hear there’s a great new Polish restaurant in the neighborhood.”
The locals, looking suitably fashionable and aloof.
Speaking of which, this was a terrific shoe. But my subject just wouldn’t stop moving.
Itty bitty light boxes depicting some local Roman fountains.
Author Brad Kessler ponders the monochromatic enormity of it all.
Across the street from the gallery: Not a piece by Jeff Wall. But it sure coulda been.
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