Prolongation: Polar Night by Mark Mahaney - Kominek Gallery Berlin

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POLAR NIGHT MARK MAHANEY Exhibition: February 1 until May 30 Mark Mahaney’s Polar Night is a sensational body of work. It is sensational as it deals in isolation and the oblique territory of a polar and frigid environment in which people are seldom and atmosphere is opaque and crushingly beautiful. The setting is Alaska, though the experience is cinematic, psychological and wedged somewhere between a revision of John Carpenter’s The Thing and perhaps 30 Days of Night. Polar Night suggests an emanation of the sublime. Mahaney’s ability to capture the frigid climes found within his photographs suggest a parallel beauty in which nothing is real and yet the perception of the environment merges from the physical to the psychological or potentially spiritual. The environment becomes a super-position in which God, though invoked through a natural earthly grandeur, may not respond. It is a frigid heaven where cold air permeates lungs and frost lines the eye sockets of what appear to be wild and intole- rant barking dogs. These animals in particular reflect a very interesting historical notation. At once frightening with their gaping jaws, these animals are actually a protective device for the local population who wedge themselves between their fur-lined form for extra warmth during their sub-zero nightly rest. What appears as terror is actually a bastion of safety in the desolate polar environment. In a world where everything is turned upside down by a relentless night, Mahaney’s photo- graphs offer a chance potential to see the world stripped bare. This minimal and pulsating exploration of form, of automobiles half-buried in the tundral rift of snow suggest a canvas that is expansive and claustrophobic at the same time. You can envision vast open expanse, but your horizon line becomes limited by light-a reference to the limitations of photographic                   vision. James Turrell would understand this place in its desolation and  numbingly effervescent layers of monochromatic and impermeable air. * Kominek Gallery Berlin Immanuelkirch Str. 25 10405 Berlin From February 1 until May 30 Visiting hours only by appointment at : in...@kominek-gallery.com Due to Covid Regulations very limited numbers of visitors aloud in our space For more information, images or interview requests with the artist, please contact: Misha Kominek, e-mail: mi...@kominek-gallery.com, T: +49 15771441841

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PRESS Feuerhelm, Brad, ‘Polar Night,’ American Suburb X, 2020 Le Bars, Stephanie, ‘Polar Night,’ M le Monde, 2020 Haeusslein, Allie, ‘Polar Night,’ British Journal of Photography, 2020 Boddington, Ruby ’65 Days of Winter Darkness,’ It’s Nice That, 2020 Arroyo, Sara, ‘Polar Night,’ Aint Bad, 2020 Fisher, Maraya, ‘Palm Prize, Shortlist,’ Document Journal,  Radwanska Zhang, Izabela, ‘Picture this: Magic,’ British Journal of Photography, 2020 Craft, Coralie, ‘Round-the-Clock Darkness of Polar Night,’ The New Yorker, 2019 Imbert, Darcie, ‘A Visual Poem of Alaska’s Changing Snowscape,’ Twin Magazine 2019 Gladstone, Sophie, ‘Polar Night,’ Wallpaper Magazine, 2019 Bound, Robert, ‘In Focus: Polar Night,’ Monocle, 2019 Schneider, Anna, ‘Polar Night,’ Booooooom, 2019 Meidman, Tatiana, ‘Polar Night,’ Esquire Russia, 2019 Harries, Jack, ‘71.2906° N, 156.7886° W,’ The Heavy Collective, 2019 Blanco, Alex, ‘Polar Night,’ Gup Magazine, 2019 Snoad, Laura, ‘Mark Mahaney Captures Unexpected American Stories,’ It’s Nice That, 2018 Fletcher, Gemma, ‘Exposure: Mark Mahaney,’ Creative Review, 2018s  READ MORE: Polar Night in the New Yorker READ MORE: ALLIE HAEUSSLEIN on Polar Night in the BJP

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