Date: Sep 18, 2014 - Nov 1, 2014
VALDIR CRUZ exhibit : GUARAPUAVA at Throckmorton Fine Art
September 18 – November 1, 2014
“Over many years Valdir Cruz and his master printer, Leonard Bergson, have developed a proprietary printing process by which to create exquisite large-format pigment on paper artworks. The emotional nuances and exceptional quality of these original prints catapults them into a niche all their own.”
– Spencer Throckmorton
Throckmorton Fine Art (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) announces an exhibition of photographs by Guggenheim Award winning Brazilian photographer Valdir Cruz (born 1954 -) at its New York gallery from September 18 to November 1, 2014.
“Guarapuava” is Throckmorton Fine Art’s sixth solo exhibition of works by the documentary-photographer, Valdir Cruz, and one that is the culmination of a thirty-year project.
Spencer Throckmorton says, “Cruz’s exquisite photographic essay on ‘Guarapuava,’ the photographer’s hometown, bears out Tolstoy’s observation that to be universal one only needs to talk about his own village. With unremitting devotion, Cruz has chronicled the lives and lifestyles of this ephemeral and evocative place. The images are the result of his close investigation of its people and landscapes.”