In Plato's Cave Unknown - 2011

New York: hpgrp gallery New York, 2011. Hardbound. VG+/VG+. Black boards w/ BW photographic DJ, [6] 122pp, 61 BW plates. From the gallery--The series of photographs, In Plato's Cave, is about a world of illusion and belief. The photographs were inspired by the "Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic, in which Plato used the cave as a metaphor. Plato sees many of us as prisoners in a cave, only able to see distorted traces of reality as shadow figures cast on the cave wall. In Plato's Cave captures the idea that we all live in a cave where, to one degree or another, we accept much of what we hear and see as the truth. The forty photographs in the exhibition are gelatin silver prints with the background painted out in black acrylic paint. The deliberate omission of photographed information is an expression of our inability to truly understand. For Lokuta the photographs are about the struggle between enlightenment and darkness.

New York: hpgrp gallery New York, 2011. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st printing. 122 pp. Fine book (binding square and tight, no markings) / Fine dust jacket. A clean, fresh copy.

hpgrp gallery, 2011-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Hprg Gallery , 2011. "In 1984 Lokuta began photographing the studio of the sculptor George Segal (1924-2000), and as their friendship developed the photographer took an active role in the production of the sculptor’s iconic plaster casts as both assistant and model. During this time Lokuta also began his series of painted-photographs In Plato’s Cave (1984-2009) which depict a variety of people at scenic overlooks, walking or seated among rocks or along coasts, set against a blackened background of acrylic paint. Lokuta makes the figures in the works directly evoke the situation Plato's celebrated analogy of the Cave in his dialogue, the Republic (7. 514a-517a), but with an emphasis on the individual figure within the Cave as much as the metaphysical and epistemological message of Plato's analogy." This publication was produced in conjuenction with the exhibition In Plato's Cave, Photographys by Donald Lokta at the hgrp gallery New YOrk, Aptil 28 through May… Leer más