Title: Seascapes ? One Location ( 1999-2008)
I have been photographing the ocean for the past 8 years from excactly the same view point.
Water is the most important element on our earth and it is our duty to safe it from the ongoing destructin due to pollution!
The healing trace minerals in the ocean carry our oldest memory that exists and represents our collective memory of past times and spaces and the weight of history on the world today.
The ocean is also a point for reflection and meditation, engaging with the ocean from an elevated position is similar to the experience we have toward the cinema screen. Our eyes and minds are able to go beyond the horizon and come back to the bouncing waves at the shores, following the rhythm of the motion from ?here? to ?there?. We are ' here' (hier), the spectators of the scene , yet we are able to project ourselves to "elsewhere' (woanders).
Renate Aller
After a formal education in London, UK, the German ? born visual artist now works and lives in New York. Renate Aller has exhibited work and undertaken residencies in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Renate Aller?s seascapes ? Seascapes ? One Location, 1999 to present? (critic?s choice by Nord Wennerstrom for ArtForum) and other site-specific art works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, the most recent being The Yale University Art Gallery and Kunsthalle Hamburg.
Awards Renate Aller lives and works in New York City. The long-term project, photographed from a single location "oceanscapes - one view – 1999 to present" critic’s choice by Nord Wennerstrom for ArtForum, was also reviewed by Vince Aletti for The New Yorker and also highlighted in Martha Schwendener's New York Times review of the Parrish Art Museum's Fall 2011 exhibition, Artists Choose Artists. Schwendener describes Aller's oceanscapes, as "spectral and evocative, with swirling masses of clouds dwarfing the slivers of sea at the bottom of the photographs." The project supports her investigation into the relationship between Romanticism, memory, and landscape in the context of our current socio-political awareness. Pieces from that series and other site specific art installations are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, the Chazen Museum of Art – University of Wisconsin, The Yale University Art Gallery, CT, The George Eastman House international Museum for Photography and Film, Rochester, New York, The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, The New Mexico Museum of Art and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC among many others. A book on the series Oceanscapes - One View - Ten Years has recently been published by Radius Books of Santa Fe in collaboration with Kehrer Verlag Germany.
Her most recent large scale photo installation with the title “dicotyledon”, is accompanied by a limited edition, hand bound book (publisher Radius Books). Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post writes, “Aller captures shimmering, gem-like moments, offering multiple views with her sense of perfect timing.”
