Stand B13

This year’s Photo London presentation features two unique, and yet related, bodies of work: "Bunker - Along the Atlantic Wall" by the Italian photographer Guido Guidi and "Bunker", an ongoing series by the LA based artist Mark Ruwedel. Both photographers have featured prominently in Large Glass’s programme over the years.

Known primarily as a Western landscape photographer, LA-based Mark Ruwedel (b.1954) has acknowledged a varied range of artistic influences from 19th Century photographers Carleton Watkins and Timothy H. O’Sullivan, as well as Earthworks artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer, to the New Topographics photographers.

He won the Scotiabank Photography Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship (both in 2014), was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (in 2019) and is currently shortlisted for the Prix Pictet (2021).

Ruwedel has had solo exhibitions at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (US); Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta (CA) and, most recently, the California Historical Society, San Francisco (US) and Tate Modern, London.

His work was included in notable group shows such as "Walker Evans Revisited", Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (DE); "Mapping Space", Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US); "The Extended Monument"" Morgan Library, New York (US).

Mark Ruwedel is currently showing "Between: Artist Books, Albums and Portfolios from his Photography Archive at Stanford Libraries"", Stanford, California (US).

Guido Guidi (b.1941) is one of Italy’s most respected photographers. In his career, spanning more than four decades, architectural history, neorealist film, and conceptual art have all played a significant role in shaping his unsentimental but also intensely personal images of rural and suburban landscapes in Italy and Europe.

Guidi’s work was included in the seminal exhibition "Viaggio in Italia" curated by Luigi Ghirri in 1984 and has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2004), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1989), Guggenheim Museum, New York (1994), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2014) and "Veramente", a retrospective, toured from the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (Paris). A major exhibition of previously unseen and unpublished photographs taken in Sardinia, during two visits (1974 and 2011) was on view at MAN (Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro), Sardinia (2019), accompanied by a publication (MACK) for which he was awarded the Hemingway prize (Premio Hemingway 2020) for Photography.

Guido Guidi is currently preparing for a major retrospective exhibition "From Zero", curated by Marta Dahó, at La Virreina, Barcelona due to open in October 2021.

Large Glass is an independent, commercial gallery. For a decade now, the gallery has worked with a range of significant international artists to conceive of and curate solo and group exhibitions through a particular and uncommon lens. The gallery’s effort is to show art in a wider cultural context that is thought provoking, rigorous, innovative and of exceptional quality.