Canadian Artist Robert Berlin Featured in Chicago Gallery
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Chicago, IL, August 08, 2008 --( On aluminum plates and Plexi, Berlin records written and painted traces, the social and spiritual graffiti of shrouded cultures.I paint through my photography and I photograph from a painter’s viewpoint so that hopefully the result is neither painting nor photography but something else, ambiguously perched, precariously, between the two mediums.”-Robert Berlin Located in the heart of Chicagos River North Gallery District, Gallery KH presents an outstanding collection of significant contemporary artists working in a variety of styles and media.### Chicago, IL, August 08, 2008 --( PR.com )-- Daguerreotypes, while representing one of the earliest forms of photography, manifests a unique visual and compelling quality for the photographer Robert Berlin.Fascinated with the depth and luminosity within a daguerreotype, Berlin began to explore the light reflecting off the metal surface and back through the image.For Berlin, these fragments become an iconographic vocabulary that is foreign and distant, yet compelling and intimate.“Rudolf Arnheim once wrote: ‘whereas the painter invents, the photographer discovers...’ In my work I seek to transcend the traditional definitions.