Arno Rafael Minkkinen @ Catherine Edelman Gallery

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Arno Rafael Minkkinen @ Catherine Edelman Gallery

October 14th, 2015 by fstop

Arno Rafael Minkkinen: 7 8 9 0 1
November 6, 2015 – January 2, 2016

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST: Friday, November 6, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a tall, slender, flexible man. We know this because he has been pursuing a constant vision for decades: to make portraits of his naked body as it blends or coexists within nature. Using a nine second delay on his camera, Minkkinen contorts his body into position, awaiting the familiar click of the shutter. “As you leave the viewfinder, trust the camera to finish the job. I do not use an assistant to look through the camera; otherwise she or he also becomes the photographer.” A true purist, Minkkinen eschews double exposures or image manipulations through Photoshop. Instead, he tests the limits of his own physicality, assuming positions that seem improbable. It is this test of the human body that pushes him to “…know what you will not do. For me this means embracing reality as a collaborator in the invention of the image, not overlaying multiple images to create such impressions.”

Catherine Edelman Gallery | 300 W. Superior Street | Chicago | IL | 60654

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