Edgar Martins

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Series: The Diminishing Present
C-Print
98 x 127 cm
2008


Untitled
Series: The Diminishing Present
C-Print
98 x 127 cm
2008


Untitled
Series: The Diminishing Present
C-Print
98 x 127 cm
2008


Untitled
Series: The Diminishing Present
C-Print
98 x 127 cm
2008


Edgar Martins "Topologies" is a very interesting body of work where he seems to explore the globe in seek of terrestrial descriptions that related to one another. I chose to focus on him because of the epic landscapes that he photographs, pristine, crisp, and clean. His work is very formal and very minimal (in a landscape sorta way) something that i admire in the work. I feel that this relates to my work very well, since I focus on the land and its markers and subtle (or obvious) descriptions and want to represented it similarly. Much of his work is small apertures and long exposures, a method that i have been using all along. He is from Portugal.


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artists share a common interest in the exploration and observation of our culture's various contemporary topologies, including our expanding urban landscape, the rapidly growing and vast global Internet, the interface of pop culture and fine art, the mapping of land, and our relationship to space. They blend printmaking, drawing (by hand or on the computer), photography, and digital collage, in which images are found and electronically cut and pasted. This dialog between processes has been a vital part of art history and continues to be.

-Cara Forrler (Davidson Galleries Director)

Topologies" is Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins' first book with significant distribution taking selections from each of his major series of large-format photographs. The images, which abstain from any digital manipulation, were taken in Portugal and Iceland and focus on what may be the world's least photographic scenes: barren landscapes with no conventional subjects. Instead, he opts for cold, isolated locations. But despite the lack of people or things (the cover image is the single appearance of a human), there's an acutely unsettling notion underlying the shots that is both arresting and intrinsically beautiful.

-Doug Black


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