Uta Barth | Art and Cake
Uta Barth, Untitled (05.8), 2005, Mounted color photographs, Overall installed dimensions: 20 x 43 in. (50.8 x 109.2 cm), each panel: 20 x 21 1/8 in. (50.8 x 53.7 cm).
Written by David S. Rubin
As a prelude to Uta Barth’s forthcoming retrospective at The Getty Center, slated to open in November 2022, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and 1301PE have collaborated on a small career-spanning survey that provides a solid introduction to the artist’s work of the past five decades. Curated by writer Jan Tumlir, the exhibition is divided into two sections, with Barth’s figurative photos featured at Bonakdar and her non-figurative works on view at 1301PE. The exhibition also informs us about Barth’s influences by including documentation and a few actual works by John Cage, Harry Callahan, Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin, Barth’s former student David Horvitz, and filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whose movie BLOW-UP (1966) plays on a monitor.