Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica presents "Humboldt," a solo exhibition of video works by Gianfranco Foschino.Gianfranco Foschino, a revered figure in a new generation of artists from Chile, sets up a fixed camera, often in a landscape, and also in urban settings to capture the delicate movements that occur in front of the lens. Filmed from a distance, the scene proliferates in intensity as the time passes by with no sign of the narrative one has come to expect from video. Many of the works are framed and hung to the wall, with the cords hidden, that subtly intersect the mediums of cinema and photography. Foschino captures the gentle variances of the landscape, bringing attention to the effects of light in altering the drama of the natural abode. From peaceful, sun-drenched blue skies, to brooding storm clouds and the uneasy in-between, he brings a focused awareness to the celestial changes that are occurring around us at every present moment.Foschino currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile. He received his degree in Cinema Studies at the UNIACC University in Santiago, Chile, in 2008. In 2005, he studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires and later completed an artist residency with the filmmaker and visual artist, Paula Gaitán. Recent solo museum exhibitions include LOCUS, Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago, Chile (2016) and Hidden Stories, Stadtgalerie in Saarbrücken, Germany (2015). He has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including: We Were Here: Absence of the Figure, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2016); Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2014); Monolith Controversies, 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale (2014); Videosphere: A New Generation at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2011); 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Antologia Visual de Jovenes Fotografos Chile 2010-2011, Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile (2010); and Less Time Than Space, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico (2011). His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and the Fundació Sorigue, Lleida, Spain, among others.The exhibition will be on view from September 9 through October 28, 2017 at the Christopher Grimes Gallery, 916 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA.For details, visit: www.cgrimes.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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