Catherine Yass
Lighthouse (east), 2011
signed and numbered from the edition of 60 in pencil, on archival Hahmemuhle photo rag paper, …
Catherine Yass overlays photograph negatives and positives to achieve the evocative color-saturated images in her prints and short films. Displaying the photographs in lightboxes adds to the luminous, otherworldly quality of her landscapes. Despite the intensity of color, Yass’s images exude a coldness that helps shape the artist’s commentaries on the vanity and folly behind certain man-made structures. To make the eerie film Lock (2006), for example, Yass shot footage from the vantage point of a Chinese tanker slowly making its way through a monumental gate on the Yangtze River.
signed and numbered from the edition of 60 in pencil, on archival Hahmemuhle photo rag paper, published by the De La Warr Pavilion, with full margins, sheet 605 x 508mm (23 7 /8 x 19 1/2in) (framed)
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Catherine Yass overlays photograph negatives and positives to achieve the evocative color-saturated images in her prints and short films. Displaying the photographs in lightboxes adds to the luminous, otherworldly quality of her landscapes. Despite the intensity of color, Yass’s images exude a coldness that helps shape the artist’s commentaries on the vanity and folly behind certain man-made structures. To make the eerie film Lock (2006), for example, Yass shot footage from the vantage point of a Chinese tanker slowly making its way through a monumental gate on the Yangtze River.
