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Lot Essay
Philip Lorca DiCorcia's work is characterised by specific mises-en-scenes, stolen moments, and cinematic tableaus. The American photographer's work came to prominence when in 1993 the Museum of Modern Art in New York devoted a monographic exhibition to his 1990-1992 series Hustlers. John Szarkowski, curator of photography at MoMA at the time, remarked that DiCorcia's photographs are “suspended moments within narratives—a conclusion which could explain the story we are looking at. However, DiCorcia provides only fragments, whose gaps we must fill ourselves, interpreting his pictures with our own dramas and dreams.”
The present work belongs to the Cuba Libre series, where the everything has been orchestrated and set up to create a complex composition. The lighting is reminiscent of cinema, pinpointing the photographer's interest in artificial light and strong colours. The scene is masterfully reminiscent of Nighthawks, the major work of American painter Edward Hopper from 1942. Several of DiCorcia's works were included in the retrospective dedicated to the painter at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 2012. This print, exhibited in the Fashination show at the Modern Museet, Stockholm, in 2014-2015, was produced in an edition of fifteen, and is sold-out.
The present work belongs to the Cuba Libre series, where the everything has been orchestrated and set up to create a complex composition. The lighting is reminiscent of cinema, pinpointing the photographer's interest in artificial light and strong colours. The scene is masterfully reminiscent of Nighthawks, the major work of American painter Edward Hopper from 1942. Several of DiCorcia's works were included in the retrospective dedicated to the painter at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 2012. This print, exhibited in the Fashination show at the Modern Museet, Stockholm, in 2014-2015, was produced in an edition of fifteen, and is sold-out.