Jan 19th 2012

Stefano Cossu – sparks ghosts coals – pinhole photographs from the Arson series

@ Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College

555 North Sheridan Road Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Opening Thursday, January 19th, from 7:30PM - 9PM

On view through Wednesday, February 8th

Stefano Cossu / SoFiET
sparks ghosts coals
Pinhole photographs from the Arson series

Durand Art Institute – Lake Forest College

Opening reception Jan. 19th 2012, 7:30pm
Complimentary exhibition catalog available
Refreshments will be served at the reception

January 19th – February 8th, 2012
M-W-F 2-5pm
Weekends 1-5pm

Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
847-735-5194
goldberg@lakeforest.edu

Stefano Cossu seems anachronistic in his embrace of the slowness of pinhole photography, relying on pre-processing – decisions made as far back as the construction of the camera – rather than the skillful post-processing assumed synonymous with the digital photograph. Taped to poles, hidden in bags, or left in the street – his cameras merge with the environment he captures and the environment merges with his cameras, the basic mechanics of photography being the transformation of a material through its exposure to light.

This transformation is at the heart of Cossu’s Arson series. Living and working in Chicago’s West Loop district, Cossu became interested in the Great Chicago Fire – which, with its power to destroy and transform (not just the landscape, but the very foundation of a city and its culture), found an analogy in photography and the process of exposure…

– excerpt from the Arson catalog text by Shannon R. Stratton

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