ALEC SOTH (B. 1969)

Falls 26, 2005

Details

ALEC SOTH (B. 1969)
Falls 26, 2005
chromogenic print, printed 2006
signed in ink, typed title, date and number '6/7' on a gallery label affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 40 x 50in. (101.6 x 127cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 48 x 58in. (121.9 x 147.3cm.)

Provenance

With Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis;
Christie's New York, May 14, 2009, lot 390

Literature

Soth, NIAGARA, Steidl, 2008, p. 17; Engberg, From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, Walker Art Center, 2010, p. 89 and frontispiece

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Lot Essay

Alec Soth burst onto the contemporary art scene in 2004 with the critically acclaimed book and project, Sleeping by the Mississippi, and as the poster-artist for that year's Whitney Biennial. NIAGARA was the hard-hitting follow-up, a body of work that is neither straight documentary nor completely fiction. As Philip Brookman writes, 'Soth’s NIAGARA feels like soaring over the falls in a barrel. Once airborne, our senses are given over to other forces. The journey starts out like a love story about youth, hope and adventure … But it quickly tumbles out of control as nature takes over, breaking into fragments of crushed spirit, raw emotion, and remorse.'

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