September 14, 2006 – January 6, 2007
The first North American survey exhibition devoted to this celebrated photographer, Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence, consists of 50 chromogenic prints that embrace the full spectrum of her career, with an emphasis on her most recent work. The photographs of libraries, academic facilities, lecture and performance halls, painting and sculpture galleries, waiting rooms and cafés in this exhibition are captivating for their formal qualities of precise composition, saturated color and rhythmic pattern, as well as for her focused interest in buildings as containers for the diverse cultural traditions enacted within them.
