Todd Eberle Wired Dan Flavin Untitled (Marfa Project)

The young american photographer Todd Eberle is probably best known for his photographs of Donald Judd’s architectural work in Marfa, Texas. In 1998 Eberle completed a commissioned series of photographs on Brasilia.  In these heroic images, Eberle captured the city’s monumental architectural forms and some dazzling interiors. For his architectural photography Todd Eberle has collaborated among others with architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & De Meuron. Apart  from his architectural photography, Eberle also takes pictures of interiors and portraits. 

 Wired, the series of photographs that will be exhibited at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,  depicts the facades and interior architecture of computers. In 1999 Eberle was commissioned to photograph the Computer History Museum at NASA’s  Ames Base in California for the magazine ‘Wired’. It was this commission that inspired Eberle to create images based on computers, fascinated by the colors and forms inherent in the computer’s designs. Often radically altering the scale, these works represent abstractions from the colors and forms,  keyboards, wiring and details of the machines which form the basis of all our computing technology today. 

 In terms of technique, Eberle, using two computers, scanns the original format negative. He undertakes some corrections using specific computer programms, manipulating colour and lights. When this balancing up of colours is completed, Eberle transfers the computer filed image to a Cymbolic Sciences Lightjet Printer that directs laser beams to expose the color paper with the image.

 Dan Flavin untitled (Marfa Project) is the second body of work that will be on show at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. These photographs depict Dan Flavin’s permanent fluorescent light installations at the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa Texas, and were shot in June 2000. In Marfa, Flavin’s installations pair bright, contrasting colours, pink and green as well as blue and yellow. Dan Flavin’s plans for these works date back to the early 1980s when  he first visited the site in Marfa, but installations were completed in October 2000.

 Eberle’s work has been exhibited in New York galleries, and public art collections and has been published in magazines such as “W” and “The New Yorker” as well as in “Vanity Fair” with which he is in contract with. Eberle was one of the eleven photographers who was commissioned by BMW to investigate its culture and document it photographically. Each artist was to make at least three works which are shown in the exhibition “Autowerke” at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany.

 For Todd Eberle the show at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, of the works from the series Wired and  Dan Flavin untitled (Marfa Project) does not only represent his first exhibiton with that gallery, but also the first public exposure of his work in France. Todd Eberle, born in 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio, studied at the Cooper Union. Today he lives in New York.