Opening: Saturday, 26 January 2013, 4 p.m.
Introduction: Prof. Klaus Honnef
The artists Victor Burgin and Peter Downsbrough will be present.
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat 12-6 p.m. and by appointment
Galerie Thomas Zander is pleased to present the series US 77 by British artist Victor Burgin. In US 77, one of his earliest and most influential photographic series, Burgin characteristically combines text with black and white photographs of American culture, whose style is reminiscent of glossy magazines. However, the works do not employ found images from magazines, but are meticulously composed photographs, in which the position of the text within the image frame and the black and white of the writing is clearly defined. The text and photograph share common features, which the viewer is invited to decode and reflect on.