Eli Stertz
26 November – 11 January 2006
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in Italian
Citric is pleased to present a solo exhibition of New York artist Eli Stertz.
A series of new photographs and three videos will be shown.
Behind each work is the essence of a person and a story. The artist researches
profoundly his model and its surroundings, thus creating a scenography inspired
by the moment and by the model’s behaviour. Eli Stertz works primarily
on the title of a scene to establish a very intimate relationship with the
work, the subject, and the act of creating. His work comprises continuous
research of the human body which is documented while performing manual and
physical acts.
Photography is the most instinctive medium that Eli Stertz has found to document
his curiousity towards the human figure and its surroundings. Following in
his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, he experiences the
world through photography. His experience delves further, as he composes
and studies each scene on the basis of a profoundly thought out scenography
while at the same time maintaining an innate spontaneity. Each photo and
scene may result from considerable and meticulous effort due to Eli’s
interest in continuously observing the figure within its setting, discovering
how it behaves and how it relates within this space. The model dictates what
to do and how to work through body language. A series of shots are taken
before finding the right composition and the image which best expresses his
thought.
The new photos on show, which have as subject not just the model but also
light, are a continuation of his installation work exhibited at Analix
Forever gallery of Geneva last June. An installation made with industrial
metal tubes
with light showing through pores becomes the pretext to create a series
of photographs derived from the observation of luminous and energetic sources.
Three new videos inspired by energy and movement will also be presented.
The main protagonist is the voyage: not of a man, but of a rocket, and
of a helicopter, and another of an abstract trip through the nature along
the
road from New York to Colorado.