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Part of the City of West Hollywood's Art on the Outside Initiative. Made possible with generous support from the City of West Hollywood & Viacom Outdoor. For more information, please visit http://www.weho.org
Amir Zaki's exhibition Spring Through Winter, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, will open at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House January 7 through February 17, 2005.
For more information, visit http://www.makcenter.org.
Biography
Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. His work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the New York New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Zaki's conceptual practice is an ongoing investigation (using digital technology and media such as photography and video) of the contemporary, banal, suburban and urban landscape in an attempt, not only to formalize, organize, and (at times) romanticize it, but also to complicate ideas of truthfulness and 'the documentary'. Although Zaki is incredibly interested in new media and its potential to create rich, cultural meaning, his artistic investigation is rooted in, and is an extension of a much larger history of photographic typologies, Conceptual Art, and New Topographics, He is recently finished a book entitled, VLHV (Valley Lake Hollywood Village), a name Zaki gave to a fictional city combining two neighborhoods where the photographs were taken. The images depict middle class, domestic architecture that has been transformed with the use of digital technology, into structures that resemble mausoleums.
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