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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p><span style="font-size: larger; "><strong>Daniel Mirer / Artist Statements & Art Work Description</strong>s</span><br /> <br /> <a href="#In_The_Finest_Tradition"> <u>In The Finest Tradition</u></a> | <a href="#Architor_Space"><u>Architor Space</u></a> | <a href="#Indifferent_West"><u>Indifferent West</u><br type="_moz" /> </a></p> <p> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><a name="In_The_Finest_Tradition">Title:</a> <a target="_top" href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=In%20The%20Finest%20Tradition"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">In The Finest Tradition</span></a><br /> Photographic medium, Color Photographs, Digital “C" Fuji Crystal Archive Print<br /> <o:p></o:p>Dimensions: 30 x 30 in (76.2cm x 76.2cm), 48 x 48 in (121.92 cm x 121.92 cm) <br /> <o:p></o:p>Portfolio Images: 20 x 24 (50.8cm x 60.96cm)<br /> </p> <p><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " target="_top" href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=In%20The%20Finest%20Tradition">Daniel Mirer: <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">In The Finest Tradition</span></a> ...In his previous series, ArchitorSpace, the artist sought to expose the banality of modernist architectural spaces. In this series Titled “In The Finest Tradition”, the photographs applies the structural principles of his architectural images to portraiture. The subjects become extensions of the space itself, lending a specific geometry of social spaces in architecture. The images reconstruct male archetypes and masculine role-play, such as military men, cowboys and police displaying the pageantry of the uniform. The photographs are reconstituting identities through the uniform. These images examine traditional codes of representation of uniform and their institutions that govern these codes of maleness. These photographs represent a conscious desire to (re) inscribe the figure at the same time confronting the implicit system in representations of the male body. Throughout the series boys attempt to prove their masculinity only to reveal that they are truly boys at heart. This transparency of attempt to feinted manhood allows us to explore the psychology of the construction of maleness within the human psyche. It is a photographic study of maleness and the uniform, and what it means to be a male in today’s society.</p> <div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a name="Architor_Space"><br /> Title: </a><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=ArchitorSpace"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">ArchitorSpace</span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " href="javascript:void(0);/*1251832947602*/"> </a> <br /> Photographic Installation Project <br /> Dimensions: 30 x 40 in (76.2cm x 101.6cm) or 40 x 40 in (101.6cm x 101.6cm) <br /> Color Photographs, Digital “C" Fuji Crystal Archive Print, Framed<br /> <br /> The <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=ArchitorSpace"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">“ArchitorSpace”</span></a> photographs display my specific interest in and fear of the banality of spaces in enclosed areas within post-industrial architecture. These places are typologies of contemporary post-industrial architectural aesthetic that makes the individual appear so displaced within the uncanny. The photographic strategy is to purposefully make these images heavy with absence; forgotten places that are entirely familiar. These deserted (non-site) environments reveal no history or functionality. <br /> <br /> The environments depicted within the images are sites that conjure up subconscious memories pointing out the familiarity within the redundancy of postindustrial public architectural space. Tunnels, corridors and lobbies that exist in the images are the enclosed public arenas in which you are viewed and exposed to the scrutiny of others. They reveal an emptiness that is particularly banal, and commonplace, that has become the current prominent state in the post-industrial society and the spaces that we inhabit.<br /> <br /> I photograph these interiors from a direct, frontal point of view, at sufficient distance to include the entire space in its flat and melancholic state where the individual vanishes in the glare of fluorescent light. These are architectural portraits that become matter-of-fact, which demonstrates a primary function of the still photographic image, to record a temporal space. They are spaces in which a room, office or corridor is virtually indistinguishable from another; repetition and redundancy collapse into an architectural singularity. Within the images, the subjects who otherwise occupy these spaces are engulfed into the void of here-could-be-anywhere, into the monumental dissolution of space and contemporary architecture.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#cccccc"> <tbody> <tr> <td><a name="Indifferent_West">Title</a>: <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=Indifferent%20West"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">Indifferent West</span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); "> </span> <br /> Photographic Installation Project <br /> Dimensions: 20 x 20 in (50.8cm x 50.8cm)<br /> Color Photographs, Mounted and Framed<br /> <br /> <br /> <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; " href="http://www.danielmirer.com/gallery.html?gallery=Indifferent%20West"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); ">Indifferent West</span></a> is a photographic series that investigates the western American landscape and its touristic architectural sites. Through this project, I photograph the found and sentimental representations of the mythic frontier. The images are of tourist sites, places that are familiar and cliche but that also cite that lack of a picturesque image of landscape. The photographs represent an America western landscape from the point mof view as a toursist. Traveling through places of this contemporary American west, sites representing cultural influences where the romantic constructions of land and people through its institutions the perpetuating a mythic West. The results are that the West has become a vast site of touristic ventures where elements of kitsch and consumption about space intersect with the comic. These models developed by private entertainment industries for tourism projecting the notion of an untamed, hostile wilderness, seeming lifeless and void, which becomes raped in myth, attending to what is called the American West. The West had become a place where the Lone Ranger, Marlboro Man, and the Noble Savage, were invented and where they continue to reside in the collective cultural unconscious. The image show a recontextualize place as the west, indifferent to history establishing an American psyche; which has become into a self-referent notion of ambiguity.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: center; "><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: x-small; "><a href="#top">[ top ]</a></span><br /> </p></font></span><br> <h1> Daniel Mirer, Artist Statement, photographs, photography, Digital, environments, architectural, public, </h1>
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