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David Leventi
June 15 – July 15, 2020
RWFA Rick Wester Fine Art presents its first online exclusive exhibition, featuring David Leventi’s photographs of interiors and architectural spaces. Ranging from the psychedelic, playfully inspirational setting of Studio A, Electric Lady Studios, to the austere yet classical container of light in Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto, Venice, Italy, Leventi’s photographs elevate private spaces rarely seen by the public, and public spaces often overlooked or taken for granted, to palaces for contemplation. Grace within an organic narrative anchor the images with undeniable, resonant presence. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the empty barstools at Oak Bar, 768 Fifth Avenue, New York, the silent void of Milan’s highly lauded Teatro alla Scala or the deserted stands of Yale University’s Payne Whitney Gym (No. 1) underscore a sensory memory of place, revived and revisited. Together with the seemingly post-apocalyptic shredded structure of Cuba’s Presidio Modelo, Isla de la Juventud prison, and the ghostly, now ill-fated Costa Luminosa docked in Venice, Leventi moves beyond the work of an architectural preservationist and documentarian, capturing and reinvigorating cultural landmarks in historic and solitary moments. How we consider our immediate past and our near future is deftly embedded in these pictures.
Exhibited Works
Amargosa Opera House, Death Valley Junction, California, 2009
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
42 x 52 inches (106.7 x 132.1 cm) Image
Ca'Sagredo, Venice, Italy, 2012
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
42 x 52 inches (106.7 x 132.1 cm) Image
Brownstones, Lenox Avenue, Harlem, New York, 2005-2007
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
33 x 43 inches (83.8 x 109.2 cm) Image
Costa Luminosa in Fog, San Marco Basin, Venice, Italy, 2018
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond in seven panels
20 x 135 inches (50.8 x 342.9 cm) Image
Lenox Lounge, 288 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, New York, 2005-2007
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
33 x 43 inches (83.8 x 109.2 cm) Image
M&G Diner, 383 West 125th Street, Harlem, New York, 2005
Digital chromogenic print, printed 2019, mounted to Dibond
52 x 42 inches (132.1 x 106.7 cm) Image
Edition 2 of 8
F-House #1, Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, 2010
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm) Image
Oak Bar, 768 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 2005-2007
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm) Sheet
Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto, Venice, Italy, 2012
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
42 x 52 inches (106.7 x 132.1 cm) Image
Payne Whitney Gym No. 1, John J. Lee Amphitheater, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2011
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm) Sheett
Presidio Modelo, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, 2018
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm) Sheet
Studio A, Electric Lady Studios, New York City, 2014
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm) Sheet
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy, 2008
Digital chromogenic print, printed 2015
52 x 42 inches (132.1 x 106.7 cm) Image
Framed
Teatro di Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, Bologna, Italy, 2014
Digital chromogenic print
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm) Sheet
Framed
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, 2010
Digital chromogenic print
42 x 52 inches (106.7 x 132.1 cm) Sheet
Framed
TWA Terminal No. 1, JFK International Airport, Queens, New York, 2011
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
50 x 60 inches (127 x 152.4 cm) Sheet
TWA Terminal No. 3, JFK International Airport, Queens, New York, 2011
Digital chromogenic print, mounted to Dibond
42 x 52 inches (106.7 x 132.1 cm) Image