{"id":1090,"date":"2012-06-28T22:39:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T03:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T03:39:59","slug":"rineke-dijkstra-a-retrospective-at-the-guggenheim-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/rineke-dijkstra-a-retrospective-at-the-guggenheim-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hilton<\/a>
Hilton Head Island, S.C., USA, June 24, 1992. Chromogenic print, 117cm x 94 cm. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. Copywrite Rineke Dijkstra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adolescent awkwardness has been Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra\u2019s stock in trade, starting in the early 90s with photos of gangly youngsters on the beach and continuing through series focusing on young mothers, bullfighters, dancers and more.\u00a0 The surprise delivered by her retrospective, which opens June 29th<\/sup> at the Guggenheim Museum, is the marked shift in her subjects\u2019 confidence level from the 90s to the present day; her career now memorializes a time before reality TV and social media primed kids for their moment in front of the camera.<\/p>\n

The show opens with young bathers from South Carolina to Croatia posed on the beach and brilliantly lit to highlight pimples, pores and, most notably, bodies still in formation, often in ill-fitting or unflattering swimsuits.\u00a0 Nearly nude, the teens have nowhere to hide, and the tension is palpable, whether the subject is a pretty blonde in an orange bikini or her less manicured Belgian counterpart, whose robotic stance – hands to her sides, palms flat on her thighs \u2013 suggests she\u2019s itching to get away.<\/p>\n

\"Rineke<\/a>
Rineke Dijkstra, De Panne, Belgium, August 7, 1992. Photograph on paper, 1370 x 1070mm. Collection of the Tate Modern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Other subjects kept returning to Dijkstra, notably \u2018Almerisa,\u2019 who we meet as a six year old Bosnia refuge in a portrait taken at a Dutch asylum center.\u00a0 Two years later, her blank stare has changed to a smile, later to a knowing expression, and in her teen years to a challenging look.\u00a0 She gains confidence, fills out and by the time she\u2019s twenty has her own baby.\u00a0 As amazing as Almerisa\u2019s physical transformation happened to be (her morphing style choices make it hard to tell she\u2019s the same girl sometimes) distilling her life into an image every year or so denies the complexities and variation of her experience.\u00a0 Watching Almerisa grow up is frustrating as we\u2019re left to guess at what or who influenced her shifting appearance, how she assimilated or challenged her new Dutch environment.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In her pictures of Almerisa, or the Israeli twins Chen and Efrat, whose faces and characters undergo a remarkable change from tame tweens to club vixens and finally to softer featured young ladies in white tank tops, the teen age years look like a scary time without giving a great deal of insight into how the difficulties were navigated.\u00a0 From our after-the-face perspective, Dijkstra\u2019s subjects are survivors. Somehow, sass and sullenness eventually departed, leaving young women who look more in control of their identities and self-presentation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Almerisa,<\/a>
Almerisa, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands. January 4, 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dijkstra\u2019s more contemporary subjects seem to have missed out on this phase, however.\u00a0 \u2018The Buzz Club,\u2019 A video from \u201996-97 shot in a Liverpool club shows young people swaying or dancing with restraint to a beat.\u00a0 A little over a decade later, a second video titled \u2018The Krazyhouse\u2019 and also shot in Liverpool features five confident teens who could be in trails for \u2018Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019 so confident and practiced are their moves.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Rineke<\/a>
Rineke Dijkstra Almerisa, Asylum Center Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, March 14, 1994 Chromogenic print, 94 x 75 cm Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris \u00a9 Rineke Dijkstra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In contrast to earlier work, in which impending transitions created drama (bullfighters range from gormless to wise, Olivier, the model-handsome French legionnaire developed from a sad-looking, vulnerable boy to a hardened man) or individuals like the bathers symbolized a moment of change, it\u2019s become harder to see past the teens\u2019 practiced exteriors.\u00a0 Though they\u2019re more self-possessed, Dijkstra\u2019s recent subjects can still elicit sympathy and concern via the daring cut of a dress or greasy-haired headbanging.\u00a0 But they, like a group of students thoughtfully considering Picasso paintings in one of Dijkstra\u2019s more recent videos, have evolved into having, or at least appearing to have, more of their own agency, an upbeat final impression conveyed in the show\u2019s final galleries.<\/p>\n

\"Rineke<\/a>
Rineke Dijkstra The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK, 2009 Four-channel HD video projection, with sound, 32 min., looped Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris \u00a9 Rineke Dijkstra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adolescent awkwardness has been Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra\u2019s stock in trade, starting in the early 90s with photos of gangly youngsters on the beach and continuing through series focusing on young mothers, bullfighters, dancers and more.\u00a0 The surprise delivered by her retrospective, which opens June 29th at the Guggenheim Museum, is the marked shift in … <\/p>\n

Read more “Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-rineke-dijkstra-guggenheim-museum-photography-rineke-djikstra-almerisa-krazyhouse-buzz-club-bathers-adolescents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-hA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}