Echo-Hawk
& Lieberman
PAINTED INDIANS A Collaboration
Museum der Weltkulturen This exhibition which is hung on the outside of the museum represents a collaboration between painter Bunky Echo-Hawk and photographer Thorney Lieberman. In this collaboration Indians bodies, along with a background, are painted and then photographed. It is necessary to photograph this resulting painting, as the painting on a human body is transient. However, photography is employed not merely as a document, but allows further elaboration of the image, often resulting in a confounding of the picture plane, that is, creation of an ambiguity of foreground and background. We have had the unusual opportunity to display this work on the exterior of the building, utilizing the windows as frames for our work. We are showing not only the collaborative works, but also Bunky’s paintings and Thorney’s photographs which we hope will make the genesis of the collaboration more apparent. |
