"Abelardo Morell's camera transforms
the recesses of the world into something even more shadowy. The
fact that what he finds in these shadows is quite ordinary - books,
kids' toys, a paper bag - makes the results magically disorienting
and (as in the cover image of a vase perched on the edge of a table)
precarious. This year, a fantastic selection of his work was published,
"Abelardo Morell."
- Geoff Dyer, Favorite Books of 2005, L.A. Times (PDF; 90kb)
"There is no doubt he has been
among the most protean and inventive photographers at work anywhere
during the last 15 years. By himself practicing more than one photography,
he has enriched the possibilities for his contemporaries, whatever
their artistic faith . . . Morell thinks big by keeping his focus
small. His eye can't help being drawn to romantic decay, to the
Laocoon-like contortions of bound pages damaged by flood or a box
of shredded, worthless money. And yet he also sees how light on
the gilded edges of a stack of library books suddenly transforms
them into bars of gold. Alert to the vicissitudes of the physical
that the camera lens is ideally suited to capture and magnify, but
driven to express the metaphysical and transcendent - to venture
into the realms of dreams and death - Morell has a mocking, adventurous
spirit that shows no sign of being jaded by the remarkable strangeness
of being here on earth."
- Richard Woodward, from the Introduction
Download the complete Introduction:
in English (PDF; 132kb),
en Español (PDF;
16.1mb), en Français (PDF;
4.7mb), auf Deutsch (PDF;
5.1mb), in Italiano (PDF; 5.3mb) |
