MAX DE ESTEBAN: ARTIST TALK

SVA MPS Digital Photography i3 Lecture Series
September 15, 2015

HEADS WILL ROLL: "MUST-SEE EXHIBITION"

We are delighted to have MAX DE ESTEBAN – HEADS WILL ROLL,  selected by The ArtSlant Team as one of its "North America's Must-See Exhibitions This Fall".

See the full list here.

PHOTOGRAPH MAGAZINE

Max de Esteban Featured on the cover of Photograph Magazine
Feature Article by Lyle Rexer

Extract from 'About The Cover'.

"Like a fault line in the surface of appearances, photo collage opens up in periods of social stress and political obfuscation ... Where earlier 20th-century collage artists like Hannah Höch deliberately let the seams between her images show in order to represent the rawness of colliding elements in a chaotic society, contemporary artists such as Max de Esteban, whose photograph Facelessness is on our cover, often layer images to mimic the experience of digital immersion – in combinations of imagery that is sourceless, familiar, and immediate ... In the exhibition Heads Will Roll at Klompching Gallery in DUMBO (September 12-October 30), the Barcelona-born de Esteban approaches the pessimism of one of his intellectual heroes, the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran ... People become a faceless audience for fantasies, propaganda, distortion and marketing. Like Cioran in his aphoristic philosophizing, de Esteban, in his images, invites us at least to flirt with the temptation to exist, if only by showing us the many ways we have developed to evade that responsibility".—Lyle Rexer

Read the article in full here.