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Transparent City #11 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
2007

Name: Transparent City #11 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Brand: Michael Wolf
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

$32,165.38

£23,579.93

€27,000

CA$44,306.21

A$44,873.57

CHF 25,777.59

MX$544,149.81

NOK 299,017.01

SEK 304,364.93

DKK 205,890.61

About the Item

Michael WOLF (1954 – 2019, Germany) Transparent City #11, 2007 C–print Sheet 121.9 x 152.4 cm (48 x 60 in.) Frame 127 x 158 cm (50 x 62 1/4 in.) Edition of 9, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 8/9 Print only – Michael Wolf Michael Wolf was born in 1954 in Munich, Germany. He worked and lived in Paris and Hong Kong where he died in April 2019. The focus of Michael Wolf’s work is life in mega-cities. His projects document both the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. Born in Munich, Wolf grew up in Canada, Europe, and the United States, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang School with Otto Steinert in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994, where he worked for eight years as a contract photographer for Stern magazine. Since 2003, Wolf has been focusing on his own projects, publishing over thirty books of his work. His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and M+ in Hong Kong. – Transparent City Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux. This was Wolf's first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life–digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged–snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses. ‘The ground is nowhere in sight in Wolf’s dramatically geometric, nearly abstract photographs of Chicago’s Loop towers. Shot from strategically selected rooftops and perfectly printed in an aptly large, vertical book, Wolf’s subtly modulated color photographs are monumental studies in grays, whites, blacks, golds, and occasional splashes of green and blue. Given their elegant grids, nuanced variations, and stillness, these images echo the minimalist paintings of Agnes Martin, yet this is the real world, and real people inhabit these immense cellular buildings, these boxy hives, these human filing cabinets, and Wolf’s stealthy, intrusive lens finds them, most often alone contemplating a television or computer. The lighting is exquisitely moody, each lit interior is a screen or stage, each human figure as poignant as those in the paintings of Edward Hopper, an artist Wolf, acclaimed for his earlier books on China, cites as an influence. With intimations of surveillance and vulnerability, these intensely beautiful cityscapes seem austere and inhuman until one lands on a magnified picture of a man giving the distant photographer the finger.’ – Donna Seaman – Michael Wolf, Art, City, Street Photography, Colour Photography, Cityscape, Skyscraper, Building, Chicago, USA, Architecture, Geometry, Structure, Abstract, Rooftops, Night

Creator:
Michael Wolf (1954)
Creation Year:
2007
Dimensions:
Height: 48 in (121.9 cm)Width: 64.02 in (162.6 cm)
Medium:
C Print
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2000-2009
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Zurich, CH
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU128017055082

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