That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the painterly gestures in an ecstatic series
of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.
It includes Albers's early drawings
of country churches and cathedrals; «Rosa Mystica,» his stained glass window for St Michael's Church, and other glass works containing religious imagery; his abstractions
of crosses and geometric abstractions with spiritually themed
titles, from his Black Mountain years; his
prints of Mexican gods;
photographic interpretations
of the theme
of angels; and a selection from the Homage to the Square series.
The slug who not only provides the
title of the exhibition and this particular series
of works but whose quite literal image is presented as a real
photographic likeness inching across the monitor and as a hand - drawn image in
print.