{"id":1188,"date":"2012-07-25T22:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-07-25T22:29:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T02:29:26","slug":"barbara-kasten-at-bortolami-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/barbara-kasten-at-bortolami-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Kasten at Bortolami Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1189\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barbara_kasten_bortolomi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1189\" title=\"Barbara Kasten, Construct XIII, 1982, Polaroid, 10 x 8 inches.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barbara_kasten_bortolomi-238x300.png\" alt=\"Barbara Kasten, Construct XIII, 1982, Polaroid, 10 x 8 inches.\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barbara_kasten_bortolomi-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barbara_kasten_bortolomi.png 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Kasten, Construct XIII, 1982, Polaroid, 10 x 8 inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barbara Kasten\u2019s photographed constructions from the mid \u201870s to the present at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bortolamigallery.com\/current\/constructs-abrasions-melons-and-cucumbers-barbara-kasten-and-justin-beal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bortolami<\/a> add some welcome historical background to the recent vogue for abstract, set-up photography (think Sara VanDerBeek and Eileen Quinlan). \u00a0Mirrors and light create enticing spatial ambiguity in some constructs, but not this one from \u201982, in which awkwardness enlivens the image. \u00a0A disappearing backdrop, hovering shapes, twisting light beams and tense wires lead the eye around an aesthetic obstacle course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Kasten\u2019s photographed constructions from the mid \u201870s to the present at Bortolami add some welcome historical background to the recent vogue for abstract, set-up photography (think Sara VanDerBeek and Eileen Quinlan). \u00a0Mirrors and light create enticing spatial ambiguity in some constructs, but not this one from \u201982, in which awkwardness enlivens the image. \u00a0A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/barbara-kasten-at-bortolami-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbara Kasten at Bortolami Gallery&#8221;<\/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":[230,227,229,228,114],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-abstract-photography","tag-barbara-kasten","tag-bortolami-gallery","tag-construct-xiii","tag-contemporary-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-ja","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","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=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}