PHOTOGRAPHS
Flick, Robbert
Holland / U.S. (1939 - )
Untitled
1977
Gelatin silver print
5 1/16 x 7 5/8 in. (12.9 x 19.4 cm) image size; 8 x 10 9/16 in. (20.3 x 26.8 cm) sheet size
Monsen Study Collection of Photography, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen
FA 81.12

In the 1970s, Robbert Flick produced a series of images of a parking garage near his studio, creating a poetic study of light and geometry in a harsh, industrial environment. Flick was interested in the way precise composition could reduce a real-world space to photographic abstraction. Like many other artists at this time, Flick experimented with altering the surface of the photograph to emphasize the materiality of the photograph in opposition to the illusionistic sense of the photograph as a transparent window onto a scene. In this photograph, Flick cut a triangle out of the photograph and accentuated some of the lines with felt pen to enhance the sense of abstraction.

-- Label copy for Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His Contemporaries, October 15, 2011, to January 22, 2012.