"I am a painter, who also photographs a bit.", said the Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha whose pictures are recognised as the embodiment of West Coast Pop.
The ArteF Gallery exhibits photographs created between 1961 and 2001 in the form of 17 artist's books. "I am a painter, who also photographs a bit.", said the Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha. In contrast to his well-known, strongly graphic works, with inserted and often suspended text, Ed Ruscha uses his camera to open up a universe of seemingly banal and stereotypical facades of car lots, roofs, gas stations and swimming pools, in the tradition of Dadaism, constructivism and surrealism. Like Eugéne Atget or Robert Frank before him, Ruscha roamed the side-streets of the everyday searching for the awareness of real life as portrayed in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
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