- I first heard of Mikhael Subotzky's work last summer in an issue of Aperature. His series Beaufort West is stunning. It is unbelievable that he was able to take such depravity and create such a beatiful body of work about it. Subotzky's series "portrays a small desert town in South Africa's Western Cape blighted by unemployment, rampant crime, domestic violence, poverty, and segregation."
The other artist that MOMA decided to put in this years fall exhibit is Josephine Meckseper. I had never seen Meckseper's work before I read about it in the New York Times this morning but it seems like it is also a quite interesting series, "In her photographs and signature vitrine displays, Meckseper explores the media's strategy of mixing political news and advertising content. Her installation includes a selection of life-size photographs of models dressed in vintage lingerie from the 1950s, from her 2006 Blow-Up series. Also included is Quelle International, a new group of pictures culled from a mail-order catalogue popular in Germany in the 1970s that have been printed on reflective Mylar." and judging by pictures on the internet from Saatchi Gallery, an even more interesting installation. I am quite excited to make a trip to MOMA to see this work in person after the exhibit opens on Wednesday. Find out more about the exhibition here.
See more of Mikhael Subotzky's work here, and more of Josephine Meckseper's work here.
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