Past Exhibition

Exhibition: Rineke Dijkstra

The image shows two individuals standing side by side, capturing their full bodies from head to toe. The person on the left stands with his hands tucked into his pockets, wearing a serious expression. He has closely shaved black hair and is dressed in a green jacket layered over a Timberland sweatshirt with light-colored jeans and black shoes. The person on the right stands with one hand in his pocket and the other at his side. He has short black hair and is wearing a black Reebok tracksuit with white detailing, along with white sneakers. This individual is also wearing a black waist bag and a ring on one finger. The background is a plain, light-colored wall with a wooden floor.
Rineke Dijkstra, Lycée Hector Guimard, Paris, March 19, 1999, March 19, 1999, printed 2000, chromogenic print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington DC), 2014.136.416

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  • Locations

    East Building, Concourse Elevator Lobby, CLA-98
The image shows two individuals standing side by side, capturing their full bodies from head to toe. The person on the left stands with his hands tucked into his pockets, wearing a serious expression. He has closely shaved black hair and is dressed in a green jacket layered over a Timberland sweatshirt with light-colored jeans and black shoes. The person on the right stands with one hand in his pocket and the other at his side. He has short black hair and is wearing a black Reebok tracksuit with white detailing, along with white sneakers. This individual is also wearing a black waist bag and a ring on one finger. The background is a plain, light-colored wall with a wooden floor.
Rineke Dijkstra, Lycée Hector Guimard, Paris, March 19, 1999, March 19, 1999, printed 2000, chromogenic print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of The Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Washington DC), 2014.136.416

Active as a photographer since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra is known for her strikingly earnest, unsentimental depictions of young people in large-scale color prints. Shooting from a low vantage point with minimal background information, she endows her subjects with a monumental presence, creating portraits that are at once self-conscious but revealing, powerful but tender. This installation features four of Dijkstra’s portraits of adolescents, as well as the 1991 self-portrait that inspired much of her later work. It is timed to coincide with the installation of I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman), a three-channel video of British schoolchildren talking about Picasso’s painting Weeping Woman, on view in the East Building’s display of Collectors Committee gifts.

Organization: Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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