Ed Ruscha

Opening Saturday, 25 January 2025, 3 – 6 pm
Zander Galerie is pleased to announce the exhibition Photographs by Ed Ruscha. The American painter, photographer, graphic artist, and filmmaker is arguably one of the most unconventional contemporary artists. American everyday life of the 1950s/60s was an inspiration for his artistic path: the mass-mediated culture, the myth of the highway, and Hollywood. His work has been discussed in different contexts such as Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, and Pop Art. Yet all these labels proved inadequate in capturing its idiosyncratic quality. His series Apartment Houses, presented in this exhibition, shows photographs of residential streets in Los Angeles, which Ed Ruscha casually took with his camera in the mid-1960s as though he was looking for film locations. They are topographic images, which reveal a certain attitude to life and which moreover have exerted a major influence on conceptual photography in the following decades.