Robert Koch GalleryShai Kremer: Broken Promised Land

The Robert Koch Gallery is presenting an exhibition of images by Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land, a selection of large-scale color photographs of Israeli landscape transformed by military occupation.

Shai Kremer's transfixing compositions explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. The ominously still images of decommissioned fighter planes used for target practice, eerie mock-ups of Arab villages erected for combat training, and walls and fences built to divide and break up the country, are all artificial structures imposed upon the land; they represent scars that are a constant reminder of active and unresolved strife. The exhibition will be on display until May 31st.

Photograph by Shai Kremer
Former Ground Force Training Zone,
next to Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Urban Warfare Training Center,
Panorama, Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Edge, 'Chicago' Ground Force Training Zone
Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Planes, Air Force training targets,
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Skyhawk, Air Force training targets
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

Shai Kremer was born in Israel and lives in Tel Aviv and New York. His photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Chapman Museum, New York, Harvard University, Boston, the Contemporary Art Museum, Tel Aviv, and the Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem. His work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

A publication of this body of work, Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised Land, will be released in September 2008 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.


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Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land
April 3 - May 31, 2008


Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 421-0122


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:30-5:30 pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website: Robert Koch Gallery.


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Mark Wolfe Contemporary ArtAlessandro Busci "8"

Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, in association with First Gallery, Rome, is presenting “8,” the first North American exhibition of paintings by Milan-based painter Alessandro Busci.

Using salvaged iron plates as a surface, Busci composes haunting post-industrial landscapes using traditional Japanese calligraphy and painting techniques. He begins by pouring acid in different concentrations across the iron surface of each plate, corroding the surface in a variegated fashion. He then uses calligraphy brushes to apply water-based enamel in single strokes, creating evocative images of train depots, service stations, power plant, and airports. The enamels react further with the ferrous surfaces and acids of the plates in unpredictable ways, producing colors and effects of both positive and negative space that are beyond the artist’s complete control.

Alessandro Busci
Stazione di Servizio
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art




Alessandro Busci
Power Station Avorio
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art




Alessandro Busci
Aeroporto
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art




Alessandro Busci
Aereo Bianco
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Busci studied Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano with a graduate dissertation on History of Art, tutored by Flavio Caroli. He has exhibited widely throughout Italy and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Novato Art Gallery in Fano, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Madrid, and Sala Amarica, Vitoria Gasteiz in Bilbao. In 2008, he will be participating in Italiana, a collective project being organized in collaboration with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.

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Alessandro Busci
"8"
April 3rd - May 31st, 2008


Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
49 Geary Street, Suite 202
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.369.9404


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:30 – 5:30pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art.


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