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X-WR-CALNAME:Mitch Epstein: Vietnam in Rome\, Italy at Brancolini Grim
	aldi Arte Contemporanea - Eventful
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SUMMARY:Mitch Epstein: Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:  A pioneer of color photography\, Mr. Epstein has been ma
	king pictures\, films\, and photographic books for 35 years. His Vietn
	am pictures from the 1990s offer the artist's characteristic balance o
	f formal rigor and nuanced wit\; and they are a vivid example of what 
	critic Joanna Lehan calls Epstein's “jaw-dropping use of color.” These
	 photographs are also an important marker in Epstein's evolution as an
	 artist\, a bridge between his early street work and his large format 
	work to come. The pictures in this exhibition are a poetic odyssey thr
	ough post war Vietnam. These photographs suggest that under beauty lie
	s violence\; and under the remnants of war is a society grappling with
	 new freedoms and continued censorship. Between 1992 and 1995\, as Vie
	tnam started to open its borders to outsiders after two decades of iso
	lation\, Mitch Epstein made six trips there. He collaborated on a book
	 with a dissident Vietnamese novelist\, thereby gaining an understandi
	ng of and access to the country that few outsiders had. In 1995\, howe
	ver\, Epstein learned he would have to submit his pictures to the Viet
	namese government for censorship. In the name of artistic freedom\, Ep
	stein broke the collaboration and his book\, Vietnam: A Book of Change
	s\, was published with a text by the artist. These photographs are sti
	ll virtually unseen in the country from which they emerged\, except by
	 the intelligentsia that smuggled in the book. This exhibition illumin
	ates a pivotal point in Epstein's career. In Vietnam\, the artist's me
	thod became more deliberate and painterly. He mastered and reinvigorat
	ed the still life. His slower\, increasingly formalist approach natura
	lly led to the 8x10 view camera he now uses. Vietnam also signaled a n
	ew period where politics would indirectly\, yet significantly affect E
	pstein's work. His next projects all evoke--as the Vietnam photographs
	 do--a keen sense of society's machinations. In Vietnam\, The City\, F
	amily Business\, and the ongoing American Power\, Epstein subtly conve
	ys that the power of a patriarch\, a city\,or a nation leaves its mark
	 on private lives and the public landscape. \n
LOCATION:Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea @ Via dei Tre Orologi 
	6a, Rome, Roma 00197 Italy
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