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Featuring works by Elliott Erwitt, Steve Fitch, Robert Heinecken, Shai Kremer, Jan Lukas, Bill Owens, Brian Ulrich, Michael Wolf, Jeff Brouws, Hugh Brown, TR Ericsson and Alexander Zhitomirsky, Words Matter is a show that explores how words matter in a person’s everyday life.

Robert Koch Gallery presents an exhibition with works of a wide art range. From WW II’ political photo-collages by Alexander Zhitomirsky to Jeff Brouw’s voyaging photography. The images’ showpiece is always the depicted text, whether it’s a road sign or an artistic creation, while the locations and background sets differentiate accordingly.

This collection of conceptual works draws the attention of the viewer with its variety and multi-subjectivity. Every image tells a different story, a story that each artist either found or provoked. People, neighborhoods and buildings are captured as simple observers and supporters of the text-piece, whether the artist purposely created it, photographed it or found it later on his photograph.

The interaction between the text and its surroundings creates a dynamic result that works both in total and for each image on its own. The viewer’s experience is a process of seeing, examining and finding the facts and meanings of the words inside the images and why -and to whom, they matter.

 

Words Matter runs until May 2, 2015 at Robert Koch Gallery, San Fransisco

 

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Brian Ulrich
Chicago, IL
2007

01

Brian Ulrich
Powerhouse Gym
2008

31

Bill Owens
I was disappointed. The movie didn’t show any sex
1972

09

Shai Kremer
Target
2008

27

Jan Lukas
Apollo Times Square
1965

13

Michael Wolf
Real Fake Art #11, Ed Ruscha, $7.-
2005

15

Jeff Brouws
Twenty-six Abandoned Gasoline Stations, Bushnell, Nebraska (Ralph’s Quality Service)
1993

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Jeff Brouws
Eat, Inyokern, CA
1998

24

Elliott Erwitt
Pasadena
1963

21

Brian Ulrich
Las Vegas, Nevada
2003

32

Steve Fitch
Snakepit Operator, Highway 66, Sayre, Oklahoma
1973