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Stagione d'arte 2015

Alex MacLean

Artista ed aviatore, Alex MacLean fotografa, da parecchi anni, l’evoluzione dei paesaggi americani e denuncia, senza tregua, le numerose “assurdità ecologiche” che segnano il nostro tempo.

Tenta di sottolineare che non si può o non si vuole vedere, “quello che si guarda senza capire, ed in particolare i legami che reggono gli interstizi tra la natura e la città”. Le sue immagini evidenziano “gli effetti del tempo, i movimenti geologici, i sistemi mutevoli dei limiti dei paesaggi, le dispersioni degli insediamenti, la riorganizzazione e lo sconfinamento delle superfici e delle attività”.

Raffigura anche ininterrottamente le ferite della terra rovinata dall’industria e l’inarrestabile distruzione di sontuosi paesaggi.

Le sue immagini, paradossalmente straordinariamente belle, denunciano alcuni eccessi irresponsabili dell’attività umana: cave a cielo aperto o campi petroliferi, le cui viste aeree del fotografo esibiscono, con forza, la dismisura e i pericoli.

DATI BIOGRAFICI

Alex MACLEAN
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA​
 
 

Le sue immagini, paradossalmente straordinariamente belle, denunciano alcuni eccessi irresponsabili dell’attività umana: cave a cielo aperto o campi petroliferi, le cui viste aeree del fotografo esibiscono, con forza, la dismisura e i pericoli.

Pilota e fotografo, Alex MacLean si inserisce nella grande tradizione delle immagini aeree. Tuttavia, non si limita ad esaltare paesaggi spettacolari ma restituisce la storia e le evoluzioni dei territori da lui fotografati. L’artista illustra gli spostamenti, le ricomposizioni dello spazio, gli effetti del tempo, le ristrutturazioni che ricostituiscono i blocchi, le frontiere e gli interstizi.
Tractor grating, Mountain iron, MN 20142014 - © Alex MacLean
Oil swirls on tailing pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 - © Alex MacLean
Surface oil on tailing pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 - © Alex MacLean

PREMI (SELEZIONE)

2009
CORINE International Book Award
 
2007
Boston Society of Architects
Brandeis University
 
En 2006
Boston Society of Landscape Architects
 Flying Elephant Fellowship
 
2003-2004
American Academy in Rome
 
2003
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
 
2002
Kansas City Design Center
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
 
1997
The American Institute of Architects
The American Society of Landscape Architects:
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE E PRIVATE (SELEZIONE)

3M Corporation
American Bell
Arthur Anderson and Company
Bank of America 
Banque Nationale de Paris
Centre Pompidou
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Chase Manhattan Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizen’s Bank, USA
Consolidated Freight
Dean Witter Reynolds
DeCordova Museum
Dudley and G. Herschbach
Dunn and Bradstreet
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston

MOSTRE PERSONALI (SELEZIONE)

2014
Aerial Perspectives, Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 
2012
Sur les toits de New York, Domaine du Chaumont-sur-Loire, Arts and Nature Centre, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
 
2011
The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA
L’Avenir du Futur, Gabrielle Maubrie Gallery, Paris, France
 
 
2010
On the Edge: An Exhibition of Alex S. MacLean’s Work, Vue Privée, Singapore
Vegas/Venice, ERES Stiftung Gallery, Munich, Germany
Alex MacLean: Given a Free Hand, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (Collateral Show)
 
2009
Art into Action, Mid America Regional Council, Kansas City, USA (permanent installation)
 
2008
Domaine du Chaumont-sur-Loire, Arts and Nature Centre, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Over the Top, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, USA
New Work, Lincoln Library, Lincoln, USA
 
2007
American Artifacts, Gabrielle Maubrie Gallery, Paris, France
Wellesley College, Horticulture Visitor Centre, Wellesley, USA
 
2006
Italian and French Landscapes, Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, USA
 
2003
Patterns on the Land, Gallery Katz, Boston, USA
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, USA
Americaland, BETC Euro RSCG with the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris, France
 
2002
Play in America Seen from the Sky, Les Rencontres d’Arles 33rd International Photo Festival, Arles, France
Urbanscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Perspectives, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, USA
 
2001
American Institute of Architects (local chapter), Dallas, USA
 
1997
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
 
1994
Aerial Landscapes, Seaside Institute, Seaside, USA
 
1993
Looking at the Land, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
Aerial Landscapes, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, USA
Aerial Perspectives, Lincoln Library, Lincoln, USA
 
1990
From the Air, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
 
1988
Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis, USA
 
1987
Bain and Company, Boston, USA
 
1986
Currier House, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
 
1984
San Francisco International Airport, USA
Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, USA
 
1980
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston, USA
 
1978
Alfred Stieglitz Gallery, New York, USA
Baker Library, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, USA
 
1977
North Street Gallery, Boston, USA

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE (SELEZIONE)

2013
Art Prize 2013, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Views from Above, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Landmark: the Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Bird’s Eye View, Westport Arts Center, Westport, USA
 
2010
Return of Landscape, Academy of Art, Berlin, Germany
Green Planet Blues, Sinaia, Romania
The World: The Top View, Public Exhibition, Center of Moscow, Russia
 
2009
Photo Peuples et Nature, Annual Outdoor Exhibition, La Gacilly, France
Human = Landscape, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, USA
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, USA
Human = Landscape, Burlington Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, USA
Market Forces/Part I: Consuming Territories, Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Economies of Scale, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, USA
6th Annual Festival of Photos, La Gacilly, France
 
2008
Moving Through New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
Beyond the Backyard, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Three Photographers, Three Publications, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
Market Forces/Part I: Consuming Territories, Carriage Trade, New York, USA
 
2007
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, USA
Italian Atlas 2007 Portrait of a Changing Italy, National Museum of the XXI Century, Rome, Italy
TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
 
2006
Painters of Modern Life: Donation – The Caisse des Dépôts, Photographic Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (is now part of the permanent collection of the Musee national d’art moderne)
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, USA
 
2005
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Les temps des lumières, Nancy, France
 
2004
Inhabiting the World, Forum Universal des Cultures, Barcelona, Spain
Shock and Awe, Art Works for the Earth, New Orleans, USA
Landscapes, Issabella/Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Structure; Architecture in Photography, Gallery Katz, Boston, USA
Shrinking Cities, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
 
2003
Toward the Horizon, Commerce Trust, Kansas City, USA
 
2002
Water: An Exhibition of Photography by ASMP New England Photographers, Akillian Gallery at Massasoit Community College, Canton, USA
 
2001
Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place and Water: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
 
2000
Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France
 
1999
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada
 
1998
Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Water, Water, Everywhere . . . and Not a Drop to Drink, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
Ground Control, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA
 
1997
Let It Snow!, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, USA
Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land, The New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, USA
 
1996
The DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
Silver Traces, The Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston, USA
 
1993
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, School of Landscape Architecture, Philadelphia, USA
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
 
1991
Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutrilite Exhibit, Buena Park, USA
 
1990
Images of New England, The Wrubel Gallery, Concord, USA
 
1989
In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, USA
 
1988
Aerial Views of the Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
 
1987
Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA
The Edge of Perception, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, USA
 
1986
One Percent for Art and the Rebirth of Madonna Hall, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, USA
 
1984
Urban Landscapes, Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, USA
Highlights from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, USA
 
1983
H2, Pan American Building, New York, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)
Contemporary Landscapes, Freeport McMoran, New York, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)

BIBLIOGRAFIA

2012
Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces (Paris, France: Editions La Découverte)
 
2010
Vegas/Venice (Munich, Germany: Schirmer/Mosel)
Free hand to Alex MacLean (Paris, France: Carre Editions)
Chroniques Aeriennes (Paris, France: Editions La Découverte)
 
2008
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
 
2007
Visualizing Density (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
 
2006
The Playbook (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson)
 
2005
Air Lines (Salem, Ma: Peabody Essex Museum)
 
2003
L’Arpenteur du Ciel (Paris, France: Textuel)
Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson)
 
2002
The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate (Washington, DC: Island Press)
Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Rural Areas (Chicago: APA Planners Press)
 
1999
Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road (San Francisco: Chronicle Books)
 
1996
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press)
 
1994
Cities of the Mississippi: 19th Century Images of Urban Development (Columbia: University of Missouri Press)
 
1993
Look at the Land: Aerial Reflections on America (New York: Rizzoli)

PREMI E RICONOSCIMENTI

2009
CORINE International Book Award: For OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point
This award is given to outstanding works of fiction and poetry as well as for excellent non-fiction books. The award was created in order to promote the cultural and economic relevance of the medium book at one of the world’s foremost publishing places, which is Munich, and to further promote reading and to explore new fields to readers.
 
2007
Boston Society of Architects: Honor Award for Design Excellence, for Photographs of New Research Buildings Woods Hold, Massachusetts, designed by Ellenzweig
Brandeis University: Bolli Distinguished Speakers Award, March
 
2006
Boston Society of Landscape Architects: Award of Excellence
 
2003-2004
American Academy in Rome: Awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture
 
2003
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “The Urban Edge: Aerial Illustrations of Contemporary European Growth Patterns,” November
 
2002
Kansas City Design Center: First recipient of the Center's resident design fellowship. Participant in project entitled "Sustaining a Sense of Region: Civic Dialogues on Ecology, Urbanism, and Metropolitan Growth."
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Grant Recipient, “Visualizing Density,” Joint Research Project with Julie Campoli, Landscape Architect
 
1997
The American Institute of Architects: Eighth Annual Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing awarded to “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,”
The American Society of Landscape Architects: Honor Award in Communications bestowed upon “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,”
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “The Relation of Inner Cities and Outer Cities between New Haven, CT and New York City,” Joint Research Project with Dolores Hayden, Yale University School of Architecture Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Professor of American Studies,
 
1995
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “Historical and Contemporary Land Patterns in Vermont,” Research and Development for Exhibit and Book Project
Eleventh Annual American Photography Competition: Certificate of Excellence
 
1994
Seaside Institute, Escape to Create Program: Artist in Residence
 
1992
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,” Exhibit and Book Project
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Co-principal Investigator in affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Registration Project, 1990-1992
 
1989
The Massachusetts Art Fellowship Program: Finalist
 
1988
Artists’ Liaison Exhibition: Finalist
 
1985
Massachusetts One Percent for Arts Program: Grant Recipient, Madonna Hall Commission
 
1981
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Demonstration project exploring the uses of aerial photography for urban planning, 1980-1981
 
1980
Ossabaw Foundation: Project Member
 
1979
The Massachusetts Art Fellowship Program: Finalist

COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE E PRIVATE

3M Corporation
American Bell
Arthur Anderson and Company
Bank of America 
Banque Nationale de Paris
Centre Pompidou
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Chase Manhattan Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizen’s Bank, USA
Consolidated Freight
Dean Witter Reynolds
DeCordova Museum
Dudley and G. Herschbach
Dunn and Bradstreet
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
Fidelity Investments
First Boston
GTE
George H. W. Bush Library
Goldman Sachs
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
IBM
Institut d'art Contemporain
Jean-Pierre Michaux
Jean Louis Maubant
Jeremiah Eck
J. P. Morgan
Merrill Lynch and Company
Metropolitan Life
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago      
North Dakota Museum of Art
Northrop Corporation
Progressive Companies
Reliance Holding Group
Security Pacific Bank
Smith Barney
Steven Spielberg
Texaco
Texas Instruments
U.S. Alliance
The Waterfront Center

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