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Pavel Banka
This exhibition of Pavel Banka's work highlights the resultant images he made of the Oregon coast and forest areas during an extended stay in 1997. In addition to the seascapes and forest scenes, are his images of Terezin—made infamous as a Nazi concentration camp during World War II—a series entitled "Spiritual Places." All prints in the exhibition are (approx.) 30 x 40 inches in size. This will be the first showing of these new works in the United States. |
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"Evocation is much more powerful than open display. Pavel Banka's rich-toned photographs at S.K.Josefberg use evocation to depict the Oregon Coast and a former Nazi concentration camp. The tones are as rich and velvety as a Seurat crayon drawing. One, entitled "Road to the Forest," simply depicts the outlines of trees and a gray smudge that recedes into the darkness. Banka's photos are more painterly than even some paintings; one large print of an ocean view is a study in horizontal grays and blacks. His photos of the Oregon Coast have a strikingly mythic, primordial quality, especially alongside his photos of a former Nazi concentration camp. Banka makes crisp, clear-eyed studies of a 200-year-old fort in Czechoslovakia converted by the Nazis into a prison. Banka's sober views of windows, vacated showers and bunks are chilling. It seems most appropriate to stand quietly before these photos." -Willamette Week September, 1999 |
