Guillermo Srodek-Hart
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StoriesPrestel Verlag, 2015Guillermo Srodek-Hart
Stories
Exploring the rural surroundings of Buenos Aires, Guillermo Srodek-Hart used his 4×5 camera to capture the interior of old commercial establishments. Butcher’s shops, bars, bicycle repair shops and dry cleaners were photographed in the manner of a still life, thus devotionally consecrating objects intended for consumption to an unalterable condition. For many of these places, the record made by Srodek-Hart was the last depiction of a disappearing world. Without changing a single item in the scene, Srodek-Hart installed his plate camera and hid behind a black drape in order to compose the picture and focus the camera. During the long exposure, it seemed as though time stood still. Despite the fact that neither the owners nor any of their customers appear in them, the photographs capture traces of a human presence reflected in the organization of the objects and in the manner of the labour we can imagine taking place in each of the sites. These photographs express both visible and invisible elements and, ultimately, operate as a kind of vanitas, in which the imminent extinction of these old shops reminds us of the transient condition of the ‚forms‘ of life that the modern city tends to defeat, affecting the realm of what has therefore become its opposite; the rural way of life.
160 pages
30,7 × 26,4 cm
Prestel Verlag, 2015
ISBN 978-3-7913-8144-2
Euro 49,95
Guillermo Srodek-Hart was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires.
In 2004 he received a BFAD from School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University Boston, MA.
He graduated with an MFA in 2008 from the Mass College of Art, Boston.
Guillermo Srodek-Hart lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Grants and Awards
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2006
Petrobras Award
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2005
Jorge Klemm Award
Solo Shows
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2019
Interior Influences, Janet Borden Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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2015
Stories, Architektur Galerie München, Munich, Germany
Stories, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Stories, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin -
2014
Stories, JDC Fine Art, San Diego, CA
Profeta En Su Tierra, Arte x Arte, Lavalleja, Argentina -
2013
Stories, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Interiors, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA -
2012
Short Stories, Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL
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2010
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2009
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
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2006
Light Fest, Casona Municipal, Cordoba, Argentina
Cultural Center, Province of Salta, Argentina
Group Shows
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2018
Them. and Us., Museo Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Congruencias. Walker Evans, Fernando Paillet, Jim Dow, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, FoLa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Historias, Museo Mulazzi, Tres Arroyos, Argentina
From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic arts: Beginnings Forever, Tokyo Photographic art Museum, Japan -
2017
Territorios Temporales, Casa de Culture, Tigre, Argentina
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2015
Photo Katmandú, Nepal
Bienal de Curitiba, Brazil
I Bienal de Asunción, Paraguay
Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania -
2014
Interiors, Hagedorn Foundation, Roslyn Harbor, NY
II Bienal de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Galeria FotoArte, Punta del este, Uruguay -
2013
Atlas of the Empire, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Seoul Photo, Seoul, South Korea -
2012
Pantheón de los Héroes, Museo de Arte Contemperáneo, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
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2011
Barro del Paraíso, Fundación OSDE, BsAs, Argentina
Kmopa Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of Photography, Japan -
2010
Animals, Stone Crop Gallery, ME
Despacho, Atelié da Imagem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Andreani Award – Travelling Show, Mar del Plata, Santa Fé, Tucumán, Buenos Aires -
2009
Owners of the crossroads, Centro Cultural Rojas, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biennal of the End of the World, Presidio de Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Owners of the crossroads, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay -
2008
Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photo Fest, Poznan and Warsaw, Poland
About Faith – Places and Norms of Worship, Athens Photo Festival, Greece -
2007
Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, Nethelands
Buenos Aires Photo Fest, Palais de Glace, Argentina -
2006
Jorge Klemm Award, Klemm Gallery, BsAs, Argentina
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2005
Fresh Fiction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Public Collections
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VandenBroek Foundation, NL
Fundación Petrobras, RA
Fundación Klemm, RA
Fundación Arte al Dia, RA
Danforth Museum of Art, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
North Dakota Museum of Art, USA
Larriviére Collection , F
Attleboro Museum of Art, USA
Bruce Berman Collection, USA
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, J