Anthony Aziz (b. 1961, Massachusetts) and Sammy Cucher (b. 1958, Lima, Peru) have been living and working together since 1991. They are pioneers in the field of digital imaging and post-photography with projects exhibited at numerous venues, including the 1995 Venice Biennale, the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and International Center of Photography. Their prints and other works have been collected extensively by numerous institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, the Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, in Madrid. They are both members of the Fine Arts faculty at Parsons School of Design, New York. They are based in Brooklyn.
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Series
“Fleurice” by Aziz + Cucher photographs of frozen flowers, symbolizing the moment of pause imposed upon us all by the pandemic.
Aziz + Cucher’s tapestries with layered figures depicting chaos, conflict, and human struggle in a contemporary context.
A series of mixed media ink jet and silk screened unique works on paper by Aziz + Cucher
Aziz + Cucher’s silkscreens depict dynamic figures in intense action, exploring themes of conflict and identity.
A series of Endura metallic prints made on the Durst digital c-printer.
Aziz + Cucher’s work in “Scenapse” digitally deconstruct photos, highlighting the tension between photography and digital art. By emphasizing the pixel, they connect the digital world to the physical, implying a shared particle structure of humans and nature.
“SYNAPTIC BLISS” a series of prints that explores a digital consciousness with multiple perspectives, blurring distinctions between body, environment, inside, outside, organic and artificial.
Aziz + Cucher’s Interiors prints explore the blurred lines between humanity and technology, presenting a provocative blend of attraction and repulsion as boundaries dissolve.
Plasmorphia is a series of photographs where Aziz + Cucher created objects covered in a thin plastic skin, concealing their identity, mirroring the dehumanized figures in their other works.
Aziz and Cucher’s Dystopia series critiques Western society’s conformity and loss of individuality through digitally manipulated photographs devoid of facial features.
Aziz + Cucher’s 1992 series “Faith, Honor & Beauty” presents idealized, gendered nude figures with erased genitalia and other features, using archetypal symbols and exaggerated portrayals to critique societal values.
Exhibitions
ClampArt presents “Distant Mirrors” – an exhibition by Aziz + Cucher, featuring tapestries, monoprints, and screen prints, the show coincides with their inclusion in MASS MoCA’s “Suffering from Realness.”
ClampArt is proud to announce “Scenapse,” an exhibition of new photographs by artists, Aziz + Cucher.