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  • Provenance


    Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

  • Exhibited


    New York, 303 Gallery, Florian Maier-Aichen, January 14 – February 25, 2006 (another example exhibited); Los Angeles, Blum & Poe, Florian Maier-Aichen, January 21 – February 25, 2006 (another example exhibited); London, Royal Academy of Arts, USA Today, October 6 – November 4, 2006 (another example exhibited); St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, USA Today, October 24, 2007 – January 13, 2008 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature


    P. Eleey, “Florian Maier-Aichen,” Frieze, Milan, May 2006; Royal Academy of Arts, ed., USA Today, London, 2006, p. 234 (illustrated); The State Hermitage Museum, ed., USA Today, St Petersburg, 2007, p. 90 (illustrated); J. Tumler, “Outside the Frame: Florian Maier-Aichen,” Aperture, New York, Summer 2007, p. 50

  • Catalogue Essay


    I have always been interested in the making of things. Most products and materials conceal their process of manufacture. It’s the same with photography, which turned from a discipline that was subject to the mastery of the few (alchemists) into a readily available industrial mass product, too transparent and too technical.
    Florian Maier-Aichen in Gagosian Gallery Press Release
    Based in both Germany and California, Florian Maier-Aichen reinvents the tradition of landscape photography. Demonstrated in Above June Lake, Maier–Aichen chooses to shoot the aerial view of the historical village and resort town in the Eastern Mountains of Mono County, CA, which surrounds itself by national forests, ski slopes and lakes. The famous looped valley was formed by glacial actions which ran in two directions; one creating the rush creek canyon and the other into the volcanic area of the Mono Craters. In this work Maier–Aichen takes landscape as a subject matter further by using a unique type of infrared film which saturates what would be normally seen as greens in the landscape to a color of blood red appearing similar to the organic insides of a human body. Maier-Aichen’s use of manipulation in this landscape brings out the rawness of the natural landscape emphasizing the spots of lakes, glaciers, rocks and snowy ski slopes. The viewer gains a new understanding of the organic forms with thoughts of what this particular landscape may have been 5 million years ago before the glacial actions took to forming it to what it is today. Through conceptualism and creative process of pictorial manipulation, Maier- Aichen combines the past and present into his own rendition of this unique topographical landscape.

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Above June Lake

2005

C-print in artist’s frame.

86 x 72 1/4 in. (218.4 x 183.5 cm).
This work is from an edition of six plus two artist’s proofs.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $152,500

The Collection of Halsey Minor

13 May 2010
New York