Arthur Tress »
Fantastic Voyage
Img.: Flood Dream, Ocean City, New Jersey, 1971
Exhibition: 16 Sep – 31 Oct 2004
PHP Prague House of Photography
Vaclavske namesti 31
110 00 Praha
Arthur Tress was born 24th November 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. His photographic life started as a boy, travelling started after he finished the Collage in 1962. He lives and works in California. The exhibition will present the collections of black and white and colored photographs created within 45 years. Presented will be pictures from his early photojournalism period, later surrealistic photographs, acts and portraits, stage and still life photography. "Fantastic Voyage" will bring pictures from Tress series, such as Dream Collector, Shadow, Requiem for a Paperweight or Theatre of the Mind. His works is using original surrealistic language, humour and is full of psychological meanings. It shows his personal approach to photography, subjective view at photo work, which keeps changing while documenting the history and development of universal archetypes and myths. The exhibition will be the very first introduction of Arthur Tress, one of the most original American artists, to the Czech culture world. His work is presented in many private and institutional collections.