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Critic's Choice
Fred Camper

Details 1: Largo Argentina, Rome, sheet 13 by Fred Camper

Most of the artwork by this Reader contributor involves multiple photos of an object or place -- a street in Brazil, say -- arranged neatly on a single large sheet. The result sometimes looks like columns of tourist snapshots. But in the more successful pieces, Camper's juxtaposition of his images offers an experience defined not by a single gestalt recognition, but by a pleasurable series of repetitions: curves, color, light, texture. My favorite entry in this show, Details 1: Largo Argentina Rome, is presented in book form. The first page is a single picture of some famous ruins in Rome; the second shows a shot of two details from the first, and each page thereafter gives more and more and smaller and smaller bits of the original picture, until the last page, which has 169 single pixels blown up to fuzzed unrecognizability. Given its abstraction and mechanistic production, it's a surprisingly lyrical image -- and the series itself seems to bring us closer and closer to the ur-digital brain, in which every complete picture crumbles gracefully into a series of mysterious and only obscurely distinguishable quanta. Opens 6/14, 6-10 PM. Through 8/1: Tue-Thu and Sat 1-6 PM, Caro d'Offay 2204 W. North, 773-235-7400 or carodoffaygallery.com. Camper gives a gallery talk Sat 6/21, 4 PM; screens and discusses films by Stan Brakhage Fri 6/27, 9:30 PM; and screens his own silent film, SN, Fri 8/1, 10 PM. All events are free and open to the public. --Noah Berlatsky

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