RÜCKENFIGUR

DAVID-ASHLEY KERR

Dear Patti Smith

http://www.dearpattismith.com/

Thursday 17 November 2011 to Sunday 27 November 2011

Opening Thursday 17 November 2011 6 - 9 pm

Exhibition previously on at Dear Patti Smith in Victoria, Australia

David-Ashley Kerr is a visual artist working in large-format photography. This is his debut Australian solo show, a selection of landscape studies completed since 2009 that began as a photographic investigation into the Rückenfigur, or "back figure".

DAVID -ASHLEY KERR

RÜCKENFIGUR

17-27 NOVEMBER 2011
OPENING 17 NOV 6 -9 PM
DEAR PATTI SMITH
2/181 SMITH ST FITZROY
www.dearpattismith.com

David-Ashley Kerr is a visual artist working in large-format photography.

This is his debut Australian solo show, a selection of landscape studies completed since 2009 that began as a photographic investigation into the Rückenfigur, or “back figure”. This visual device is most commonly associated with German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.

It involves depicting a human figure that does not engage the viewer, introspectively contemplating the natural world or landscape before them.

Kerr is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University, his research inquiring into the visualisation of place, in the context of Australian cultural identity and its relationship to physical environment.

David-Ashley Kerr is a board member of Melbourne ARI , Dear Patti Smith. He lives and works in Melbourne.