Another wall of the gallery holds a series of seven red photo portraits. Blown up and tightly framed, these are manipulations of artist Katharina Sieverding's passport pictures. Her successively altered visage reveals bestial possibilities, as the nose takes on the indentations of a snout and the eyes become triangles. The semiotic work of Lothar Baumgarten is as full of obsessive process as it is devoid of emotion. Parallels includes excerpts from his Carbon project commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
Photographs show train tracks and stations as they crisscross the American landscape.
An intersecting wall text names interconnecting rail lines. In that respect, Parallels does initiate a dialogue about the insular world of art and ideas. Hopefully, future academic and aesthetic exchanges proposed for HdK and ACA will challenge artists from both sides of the ocean to develop fresh aesthetics. Peachtree St. Tues. Use this address for linking.