Following the success of his debut exhibition at Huis Marseille in 2017, Jeff Cowen’s (b. 1966 in New York) second exhibition opens at the museum in June. The exhibition features works that Cowen has created over the past few years inspired by the Provence region in the South of France. Fascinated by the brilliant light and overwhelming nature, he captures his reflections with his poetic approach in this new body of work.

Cowen seeks to draw our attention to the sublime experience of nature’s beauty through his work. As a photographic artist, he keeps well away from the digital world and has a real hands-on approach to the craftsmanship of the photographic process. He uses self-made enlargers to create large analog prints on thick, wavy photographic paper. He experiments with darkroom techniques and chemical formulas, rendering each print a unique work.

While his photography encompasses all the traditional art historical genres, such as still life, landscape and portraiture, the alchemy in the darkroom during manual printing plays an important role, and in some works abstraction takes over.

• Jeff Cowen – Provence Works
  
• Design: Kühle und Mozer, Cologne
• Texts: Siran Chen Cowen, Sara Tas, Juliet Kothe
• Hardcover, linen
• 16,4 x 22 cm
• 72 pages
• ISBN 978-3753306667