Caio Reisewitz

Brazilian photographer Caio Reisewitz's first exhibition in the United States, curated by Christopher Phillips, will be open through September 7th at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City. The show presents its audience with a selection of works revealing the artist's fascination with Brazil's colonial legacy, made between 2003 and 2013, and more recent hand-made photo collages. The photographs focus on images of urban environments inserted in scenes of Brazil's vast green expanses of forested land, a way of exploring the rapid shifts that take place in the relationship between urban and rural areas of contemporary Brazil. Born in São Paulo in 1967, Caio Reisewitz studied at the Kunstakademie Reisewitz Mainz in Mainz, Germany, before returning to Brazil to launch his career. Despite his admiration for German photographers Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, and Andreas Gursky being evident in the precision of his monumental-format color photographs, Reisewitz developed his own methods for depicting Brazil's extraordinary landscapes and its architecture. Reisewitz's work has been widely exhibited in Latin America and Europe, and he represented Brazil at the 2005 Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition titled Paraíso Ameçado. His photographs were recently seen in the exhibition América Latina 1960-2013 at the Cartier Foundation, in Paris.