
David Hartt
Interval I
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
36 x 54 in
91.4 x 137.2 cm
Edition of 6, + 1 AP
DH6623
David Hartt
Interval IV
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
36 x 54 in
91.4 x 137.2 cm
Edition of 6, + 1 AP
DH6624
David Hartt
Interval XIII
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
50 1/2 x 36 in
128.3 x 91.4 cm
Edition of 6, + 1 AP
DH6626
David Hartt
Interval XIV
2014
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
16 x 24 in
40.6 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 36 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1 AP
DH5806.1
David Hartt
Interval X
2014
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
16 x 24 in
40.6 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 36 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1 AP
DH5805.1
David Hartt
Belvedere I: Cubicles at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
36 x 48 in
91.4 x 121.9 cm
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5611.1
David Hartt
Belvedere II: Joseph P. Overton Memorial Library at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 38 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5612.1
David Hartt
Belvedere III: Fiscal Policy Cubicle at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 38 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5613.1
David Hartt
Belvedere IV: Health Care Overflow at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
36 x 48 in
91.4 x 121.9 cm
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5614.1
David Hartt
Belvedere V: Video Tapes at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 38 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5615.1
David Hartt
Belvedere VI: Publications at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Midland, Michigan
2013
archival pigment print mounted to dibond and framed
18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm
8-ply Mat 38 x 44 in
Edition of 6, + 1AP
DH5616.1
David Hartt
The Republic
2014
HD video - Duration 16:08, Score by Sam Prekop
Installation:
machined aluminum (96 x 95 x 33 in)
3x turned poplar (17 x 13 in diameter)
cast bronze (24 x 48 x 48 in)
unique
DH4968
David Hartt
The Republic I
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
59 x 88 1/2 in
149.9 x 224.8 cm
edition 1/3, + 1 AP
DH4964
David Hartt
Still from The Republic
2014
HD video
Duration 16:08
Score by Sam Prekop
edition of 6
DH4997
David Hartt
Fragment
2014
cast bronze
24 x 48 x 48 in
121.9 x 121.9 x 61 cm
unique
DH4991
David Hartt
The Republic II
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
48 x 72 in
121.9 x 182.9 cm
edition 1/6, + 1 AP
DH4965
David Hartt
The Republic IV
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
30 x 45 in
76.2 x 114.3 cm
edition 1/6, + 1 AP
DH4967
David Hartt
The Republic III
2014
archival pigment print mounted to Dibond and framed
30 x 45 in
76.2 x 114.3 cm
edition 1/6, +1 AP
DH4966
David Hartt
Kiosk at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois
2011
archival pigment print
48 x 64 in
121.9 x 162.6 cm
DH4634
David Hartt
Eunice Johnson’s Office at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois II
2011
archival pigment print
48 x 64 in
121.9 x 162.6 cm
DH4635
David Hartt
Carpet at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois
2011
archival pigment print
60 x 80 in
152.4 x 203.2 cm
DH4636
David Hartt
Ebony Fashion Fair Archive at The Johnson Publishing Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois II
2011
archival pigment print
30 x 40 in
76.2 x 101.6 cm
DH4637
Though we may obsess about the past or the future, alternately consumed by all that is not, the primacy of the present forever asserts itself. We almost always believe that the times in which we live are the precipice to a cataclysmic fall, a tipping point to some greater tragedy, a moment when all can slip away and be lost. Ours is, as photographer David Hartt observed, “A crisis of borders, a fold in time, a rupture in space.”
With this in mind, Hartt sets out to curate a photography exhibition that speaks to our times. "This Synthetic Moment" at David Nolan, New York, brought together the works of Liz Johnson Artur, James Barnor, Kwame Brathwaite, David Hartt, Zoe Leonard, and Christopher Williams to explore, in Hartt’s words, “pictures of power and pride and grief and desire and confusion and community and celebration and abandonment.”
Closing this week is a hard-hitting group exhibition curated and featuring the works of David Hartt. The David Nolan Gallery is hosting Hartt and five other artists, as they explore migration and contemporary concerns, desires and rewards around the currently controversial subject. “This Synthetic Moment” runs at the gallery’s New York venue until March 10, 2018.
For "This Synthetic Moment," curator David Hartt presents photographs whose shared imperative is an interrogation of what he refers to as “a crisis of borders.” Through pictures — including one of black models taken in the ’60s but only printed last year, and another of a car bundled in blue tarp like a body bag — Hartt meditates on how both literal and abstract borders like place, time, and observation can affect meaning. In the exhibition, Hartt brings together a diverse collection of artists whose images illuminate the point at which what’s happening in the moment becomes art. Besides some of Hartt’s own photographs, featured artists include Kwame Brathwaite, Zoe Leonard, James Barnor, Liz Johnson Artur, and Christopher Williams.
The three photos of his own that David Hartt included in “This Synthetic Moment,” a six-photographer show he curated at David Nolan Gallery, are fraught with disembodied melancholy. “Interval XIII” shows a lone auto parked on the street, closely wrapped in what looks like a giant blue garbage bag, and in “Interval I,” a few small, worse-for-wear boats list in the water. But all the other images he chose are of black women and men, and they add up to an exceptionally rich demonstration of racial identity as a continuous act of self-creation.
From Accra to Harlem, the photographs in an exhibition curated by David Hartt expand the field of representation.
What are the images that encapsulate the moments, spaces, communities, and myriad experiences of blackness across the globe? What are the gestures, the glances, the ways of being that illustrate “a crisis of borders, a fold in time, a rupture in space. An assertion of gradience”?
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of architect Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67project in Montreal. Built as a model housing prototype for Expo 67, the development was an assertion of Canada’s post-colonial identity: cosmopolitan, technologically innovative, and optimistic. Growing up in the suburbs of Montreal, I was captivated by it. Yet despite Habitat 67’s iconic status, its success was almost impossible to repeat. In his 1974 book For Everyone a Garden, Safdie chronicles the various attempts that were made to replicate the Habitat 67 model elsewhere. While more traditional projects were eventually realized in Singapore, Israel, and Massachusetts, there were none that attempted Habitat 67’s ultra-dense frame-and-capsule design or its factory-built construction method. With one exception — Habitat Puerto Rico.