In conversation with gallery director and curator Carlo Cinque, the pioneering US artist peter campus explains that he feels close to God when he is working with his camera. Visiting this meticulously curated and sympathetically installed exhibition at Milan's Carlocinque Gallery confirms campus's spiritual sensibility and supports his assertion. These new works are subtle, accomplished and, most significantly, profoundly contemplative.
The curator and artist have worked together harmoniously, selecting and installing ten new videos, what the artist describes as "videographs," from a substantial body of material that was recorded in and around Bellport, near the artist's home on Long Island. The works are all carefully composed visual details of temporal fragments recorded at locations either on or at the edges and margins of water, including ponds and puddles. They are video recordings of fluid surfaces that present layers of colour, as much as momentary reflections that capture motion and refracted light, a macroscopic continuum that has been contained and held in the camera, before being enhanced, subtly processed and manipulated by the artist for the viewer to experience and contemplate.
