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Lewis Baltz: Park City 19. Mai - 17. Jun 2012
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 101 (Park City, interior, 40), 1979
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 102 (Park City, interior, 41), 1979
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 19 (Prospector Village, Lot 41, looking Southwest), 1979
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 20 (State Highway 224, 0.1 mile north of junction with State Highway 248, looking North), 1979
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 21 (State Highway 248, 0.1 mile east of junction with State Highway 224, looking East toward Homestake Condominiums), 1979
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Lewis Baltz
Park City 23 (Cleared area, Parkwest, looking West toward Bronco Ski Run and Murdock Peak, 1979
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Gallery Luisotti is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition of Lewis Baltz: Park City. Taken from 1978 to 1979 in a then-developing section of Park City, Utah, this series has long been celebrated as one of the central portfolios in Baltz’s groundbreaking career, and the final, rueful embellishment upon his seminal works of the 1970s. The complete Park City portfolio, consisting of 102 elements, will be on display in the exhibition.
Park City is today one of America’s prime resort destination, well-known for its multiple world-class ski parks as well as being the home of the Sundance Film Festival. With a full-time population under
8,000 people, Park City has an estimated 4,000,000 tourists visiting annually, driven to the area through power of conspicuous enterprise. Like Baltz’s earlier series, The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, Park City is at once a deadpan reportage of a housing development under states of construction as it is a diary of the seemingly inexorable march of commerce that drove the rush. In
clarified, Spartan detail, Baltz captured the then-changing land as a premonition, taken at maximum depth of field; even the most barren and unearthly ground can be a place for financial definition in
the boom generation of America.
Nature as a source of aesthetic pleasure is rendered out in these photographs. Taken in its entirety, the images combined become more a narrative proscribing something else altogether. Baltz’s purview
of these distinctly uninteresting structures insinuates nature within the uncomfortable company of a social contract, in the sense of Hobbes’ treatise on the lone benefit of moving from the wilderness of the State of Nature into Society: inclusion into the civilization means the right to sue one another at will. This series is in its own way a remark on the postindustrial age’s way of manufacturing nature into a functional product: a profit-ready landscape. In the quintessentially American proposition of
manifest destiny –of absorption, of turning anything into an alluring specter for the appetite- Park City intimates the afterglow of the new dystopia: The World is ugly,/And the people are sad.
Lewis Baltz has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including his upcoming surveys at the Tate Modern, London and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; amongst many others. For more information about the artist and the exhibition, or for a complete curriculum vitae of the artist, please contact Gallery Luisotti at (310) 453-0043 or by email at info@galleryluisotti.com
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