"Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures 1979-1999".CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM Nic Nicosia Nicosia (nĭkəsē`ə), Gr. Levkosia, Turkish Lefkoşa, city (1992 pop. 177,410), capital of Cyprus, on the Pedieos River in the central plain of the island. It is also the center of an administrative district, part of which is in the Turkish sector. has been making set-up photographs about the pitfalls and terrors of daily life since the early '80s. With the "Real Pictures" series, starting in 1987, the work gained a new complexity. Nicosia's vision became darker as his style grew more seemingly realistic: Children discover a corpse, an angry man menaces a clown. The darkness has persisted as the images have become more enigmatic yet somehow more revealingly reflective of the melancholy side of American life. In-house curators Dana Friis-Hansen and Lynn M. Herbert have put together fifty-six photographs, two videos, and two films by this underknown Dallas-based artist. Sept. 25-Nov. 28, 1999. |
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