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The Prague Window Gallery recently presented photographs by the young British artist Luke Gottelier, who was singled out in 1998 for the important exhibition Surfacing at the ICA. We can find a forerunner of his ambiguous photographic treatment of common themes in Ele-vage de Poussiere (Dust Bree-ding), the combined work from 1920 by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, which consists of Ray’s shot of the lower part of Duchamp’s Large Glass, covered in a thick layer of dust. In a similar manner, Luke Gottelier transforms huge details of still life pieces into monumental landscapes.
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