POLAROIDS: ATTILA RICHARD LUKACS and MICHAEL MORRIS
Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Alberta
Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design
January 14 – March 13, 2010
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1407 – 14th Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta
Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris
This exhibition showcases over 3,000 Polaroid photographs by Vancouver painter Attila Richard Lukacs produced over the past twenty years as referents for paintings, assembled and collaged by curator/artist Michael Morris.
Utilizing the unique characteristics of the Polaroid medium, Lukacs’ painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues, deep chiaroscuro, romantic sensuality and graphic immediacy of these photographic studies. Responding to the seriality and narrative potential of the images, Morris has employed simple thematic and organizational schemas to create vibrant Polaroid grids, uncovering an archeology of Lukacs’ work and intense study of the male form. Collected representations of men are, still, rarely located outside the idiom of fashion and the arena of sport, and infrequently transcend these delineations. Richard Lukacs / Polaroids / Michael Morris provokes important questions, however, about our culture’s continuing negotiation of images of men, of the tradition of the nude study, while offering an extraordinary view onto the subject of the human form.
