A fundraising edition from Zurich-based photographer Walter Pfeiffer, debuting on the occasion of Art Basel, 2013.
The image from Pfeiffer, showing a male figure holding an unrolled poster over his naked body, is a color field study disguised as a figurative portrait, and visa versa. The negative space created by the blank reflective paper offers up themes of eroticism and artifice as the subject censors both his own body and the photographic image itself, presenting (with the artist’s characteristic wit) a kind of non-image in its place. The image appeared in his book In Love with Beauty (Steidl, 2009).
Originally taken in 1976, the print is editioned here for the first time. Measuring 11.7 x 8.3 in., the work has been produced in a signed and numbered edition of 20, and retails for $900. Courtesy of Galerie Sultana, Paris.
