José Manuel Ballester: Concealed Spaces

José Manuel Ballester, The Uninhabited Garden, 2008, Tryptich, photography printed on canvas, 80.31” x 151.26”. Courtesy Frost Art Museum.

Frost Art Museum - Miami

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By Denise Colson

“Concealed Spaces” is Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester’s first exhibition in the United States. It includes 24 large-format photographs, inspired by masterpieces from the history of universal art. The author manipulated the images of various paintings from the Museo del Prado using Photoshop, erasing all representation of live beings, and creating scenarios in which nature and architecture are the protagonists.

In this fashion, these paintings become intervened landscapes. Before Ballester transformed them they did not have the same connotation, since they were not landscapes per se, but rather mere backdrops. The artist has focused on the 16th and 17th centuries, a crucial period in landscape tradition, during which artists mainly from the Netherlands and Italy modernized the landscape genre.

With this exhibition, Ballester calls on us to reflect on the transformation of art throughout history by making such meaningful and well-known work timeless, and thus modifying our way of seeing them. Through June 23, 2013.