A COLLECTOR’S JOURNEY AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM

Darren Almond (b. 1971)
Fullmoon@Cascade
Lambda print
image: 47⅝ x 47⅝in. (121 x 121cm.)
sheet: 49⅝ x 49⅜in. (126 x 125.5cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number three from an edition of five

Another example is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Provenance:
White Cube.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002.
Exhibited:
Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Darren Almond, 2001 (another from the edition exhibited).
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Darren Almond, 2001 (another from the edition exhibited).

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Specialist Notes:

Through evocative meditations on time and duration, British artist Darren Almond explores themes of personal and historical memory using the medium of photography. The result of the artist’s quest to portray an alternative vision of landscape, the photographic series Fullmoon reflect Almond’s extensive journeys to remote geographical locations to reproduce iconic landscapes that inspired renowned travellers and explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Almond’s full moon images, which he began taking in 1998, are a modern exploration and reinterpretation of the landscape tradition represented by the fact that he started the series by photographing places such as Cézanne’s Mont Sainte Victoire, Constable’s Flatford Mill in Suffolk, and areas where Casper David Friedrich and John Ruskin gained inspiration. His photographs also follow the footsteps of respected scientists like Charles Darwin, adding to the work notions around evolution and conservation of nature.

Almond took his photographs using long exposures and ensured for his compositions cloudless skies. The results are ghostly views of landscapes that depict a feeling isolation, complete silence and beauty of nature. His landscapes are bathed only in the light of the full moon, which become powerful and evocative compositions that create the illusion of day during night. With no digital manipulation or artificial processing, Almond’s work explores the effect that light has on the way we perceive things and creates highly detailed images that seem to be almost supernatural in their very painterly tonal ranges.

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