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May 1998 Michael Flomen's Fields are black and white photographs that resemble lunar landscapes where the subject of the photograph is itself obscured by the beautiful and unearthly images. Creating an atmospheric space without specific representational form, Flomen's photographs hover on the boundaries between abstraction and representation, the recognizable and the subliminal. These images are of snow covered landscapes, photographed directly into strong sunlight. The finished works demarcate the space between seeing and perceiving where the possibility of vision is allowed to creep in. As Peter Sibbald Brown has written, "(i)n this latest work, Michael Flomen presents an anonymous wilderness of magnificent ambient beauty - an atmospheric space without specific representational form. We become involved - steeped in the dreams of Seurat, Turner, Rothko; submerged in the light absorbing surface of Thoreau's pond, and confronting the 'eternal silence of these infinite spaces' as the seventeenth century writer philosopher Pascal described the heavens while peering through Galileo's telescope." This exhibition is presented as part of Contact '98, Toronto's Festival of Photography, and will be on view from May 2 - 23, 1998. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 For information, telephone (416) 920 3820 |