Photo credit: Provided by donor
Accession Number: C.2024.59.1
Dimensions: 63 in X 84 in
Dimensions (Metric): 160.02 cm X 213.36 cm
Dimensions (Metric): 160.02 cm X 213.36 cm
Source: Shai Kremer
Credit Line: Promised Gift of the artist and Art Bond NY
World Trade Center: Concrete Abstract #17
Description
Print composition titled World Trade Center: Concrete Abstract #17 (2013) by Shai Kremer (b. 1974). This archival pigment print is developed from combining as many as 60 images to depict the enormous task of rebuilding at the World Trade Center site. Amid the girders of the rising steel structure are two projections that represent the Tribute in Light.
Print composition titled World Trade Center: Concrete Abstract #17 (2013) by Shai Kremer (b. 1974). This archival pigment print is developed from combining as many as 60 images to depict the enormous task of rebuilding at the World Trade Center site. Amid the girders of the rising steel structure are two projections that represent the Tribute in Light.
Historical Notes
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. Pursuing his initial photography training at Camera Obscura in Tel Aviv, which closed in 2005, he completed his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole. Dating from 2013, Concrete Abstract # 17 represents what Kremer envisioned as his culminating work. By this date, the final component of the new One World Trade Center’s spire had been topped out, restoring proud height to lower Manhattan’s skyline. In the picture’s foreground, homage is paid to the Tribute in Light installation, evoking the missing Twin Towers and the human lives cut short on 9/11.
In 2021, Kremer returned to the site and produced one epilogue composition, # 18, marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. Pursuing his initial photography training at Camera Obscura in Tel Aviv, which closed in 2005, he completed his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole. Dating from 2013, Concrete Abstract # 17 represents what Kremer envisioned as his culminating work. By this date, the final component of the new One World Trade Center’s spire had been topped out, restoring proud height to lower Manhattan’s skyline. In the picture’s foreground, homage is paid to the Tribute in Light installation, evoking the missing Twin Towers and the human lives cut short on 9/11.
In 2021, Kremer returned to the site and produced one epilogue composition, # 18, marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
