Alvin Booth ist ein in New York lebender Künstler, der ursprünglich aus Hull in England stammt.
In seinen Arbeiten schwelgt er sowohl in der Schönheit der menschlichen Form als auch in den Mutationen dieser Schönheit. Indem er die Formbarkeit und die Schwerkraft des Körpers als Palette verwendet, schafft Booth eine Landschaft, die manchmal verlockend vertraut und manchmal verführerisch surreal ist.
Booths üppige Fotografien verwenden den Akt als Ausgangspunkt. Körper werden gezogen, gefaltet, umhüllt, vervielfältigt und eingewickelt, um Bilder zu erzeugen, die beweisen, dass der Körper sowohl erotisch aufgeladen als auch spielerisch komisch sein kann.

Diese Ausstellung zeigt Werke aus Booth Serien “Corpus”, “Osmosis”, “Ghost Prints” und seine neuesten Arbeiten, den “In House Nudes”. Fotografien von Alvin Booth befinden sich in vielen großen Sammlungen z.B. in der Elton John Collection.

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 Alvin Booth "In House Nudes" Exhibition from September 17th until December 20th, 2023
Opening on Sunday 17th September from 12am to 6pm in the presence of the artist. Opening hours:
from September 19th to October 8th, 2023: Tues. - Fri. 4pm - 7pm, Sat. 11am – 3pm
from October 9th to December 20th, 2023: by phone appointment only 0177 3202913.

in focus Galerie, B. Arnold is pleased to present for the first time Alvin Booth’s In House Nudes, which is accompanied by Edition Vervais’s publication of the work. The show opens on September 17th and runs until December 20th.

In House Nudes began in a barn in the Languedoc region of France where the photographer and his wife began spending time in 1989. The barn had a dirt floor, a roof with a couple of holes, and a stable where 19th century travelers kept their horses. The house that came with the barn had been an old village inn, and the photographer set to work on and in the aging structures that would become an extension of his creative output and the foundation of In House Nudes.

Thirty years after the series began, In House Nudes reflects a culmination of work that the photographer made but did not exhibit or publish while producing the Corpus, Osmosis, and Nocturnes series amongst others. The centrality to In House Nudes of the home and surrounding landscape represents the most immediate and radical shift in the photographer’s development. The shift occurred parallel to the creation of a central body of work that shares the artist’s concentration on views of the nude human form magnified and burnished by unseen narratives and processes of production. The In House Nude series is printed on Awagami Bamboo paper and framed with the same materials and techniques the photographer used to weld and build the window frames, staircases, and atriums of the original house and barn.

“My dogma has always been one camera, one lens, one light,” the photographer says. “I print what I see framed in the viewfinder. I never like to crop an image. For In House Nudes, I switched my Arri hot light for the sun - part choice and part lack of a decent power supply. All of the images are shot in natural light.” In house is a term employed by companies that produce their work without hiring outside of the organization. When asked about it, the photographer says “the images are not all inside the house. But they are in house in every possible sense. I choose what I see from and in the house, which then becomes what you see. Of course,” he adds with a smile and pauses to point his visitor to the entrance of his studio where a small plaster object has been embedded in the doorframe. Unobserved until this moment, a plaster breast of generous proportion swells from the base of the frame. How many visitors have brushed by this small, playful signature? “There is plenty you won’t see,” he says, answering the unasked question. “Or not yet.”

Works from the Corpus, Ova, Osmosis and Nocturnes (Ghost Prints) series complement the exhibition, allowing visitors to trace the artist's development.