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TWO complementary artistic
visions enliven the walls at
Fresentation House Gallery
April 15 to June 4.

In one room, visitors will see a fas-
cinating collection of black and white
prints made from glass plate negatives
shot by German photographer .
Heinrich Zille between 1898 and 1900
in Berlin.

Across the way hangs Fragments —
a selection of colour photographs shot
primarily in Vancouver between 198)

_ and 1985 by Vancouver pho-.»3rapher
Roy Arden. :
‘Arden is internationally known for
. his large colour photographs depicting
what he cails the Landscape of the
Economy...
He sees his earlier work on display
-in North Vancouver as being more lyri-
cal in nature and som:what romantic.
Says Arden, “Ir’s really the first
:-mature body of work I ever did, right
“out of arts school (Emily Carr,

= 1982).
; hs were first shown in Vancouver _
986s, but Arden says his choices

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What is it to be a person in a body?”

Among Arden’s influences, the
Bauhaus, Surrealism and the pho-
tographs of Wols.

He holds the work of Zille in high
regard and was the one who suggeste
the Zille show to the Presentation
House curator. :

Says Arden, “I don’t want to draw ~
any relationship between the ovo bodies
of work, but he’s definitely a very
important photographer and one of my
favourites. He’s very unknown here. It's
19th century work, it’s the turn of the
century, but his vision is so modern.

“[r’s uncanny. 1 can’t think of any
parallel to him at all. He’s basically
shooting in a Robert Frank snapshot

__ esthetic. He’s doing it at the highest
level and decades and decades before
anyone else. He could be as much an
inspiration for a young photographer
today as Robert Frank. It’s totally fresh.

“Ee was using these as studies (for
drawings), but I don’t really believe
that: He may have started out that way
but the evidence of the work suggests

NEWS photo Terry Peters that at some point he must have had

a collection of some of his earlier photographic werk at Presentation some sense that he was creating a pret-

ent direction.
“{ was interested a lot more in some kind of notion of his-

- torical objectivity and more of a political kind of view of

things. I just lost interest in showing this work. But now,
when I was looking at it again, I saw a lot of similarities and
echoes in my later work that can be traced through back to
this work. There is some kind of a continuity,” Arden says.

The subject matter can be divided into two broad cate-
gories: portraits or fi and urban textures. But says Arden,
“1 don’t think the subject matter is so important as it would
be in a more documentary or hoto-journalistic kind of work.
Ultimately it’s all about a kin of vision.”

-Most of the portraits were shot in Vancouver. His fellow
artistic friends proved ready subjects.

“The portraits aren’t really about their personalities so
much. 1 was interested in some idea of corporeal presence.

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ty incredible body of work. At that
: time there was no context for under-
standing of body of photographs like that as art,” says °
Arden. : :
The 42 photos are reprints from the original negatives
and are on loan from the Beriinische Galerie in Berlin, —
Germany. Surviving vintage prints are rare. . :
Zille’s rough and tumble approach captures the zesty,
gritty essence of Berlin street ife.” Sae
Said Presentation House adjunct curator Karen Henry of...
the two shows opening tomorrow, “It is that interesting.
kind of association with a historical artist working at the
turn of the century and now Roy’s work from sort of at the -
end of the 20th century and working in a similar esthetic:
with newer materials. There’s a nice complement there.“ .
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. |
On Thursday tie gallery is open noon to 9 p.m, Arden will :
present a public talk on Sunday, April 30 at 2 pom. *

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