Jeff Robb ‘Unnatural Causes 2’
Lenticular Photograph, 100 X 100cm, Edition of 9
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JEFF ROBB
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ 7 Lenticular Photographs 200 x 200 cm Edtion of 5
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 1
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 2
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 3
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 4
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 5
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 6
‘THE UNNATURAL CAUSES’ Detail 7
‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 5’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6
‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 8’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6
‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 9’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6
‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 10’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6
‘UNNATURAL CAUSES 1’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 6
‘AERIAL 2 ’
Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 9
‘AERIAL 4’
Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 9
‘AERIAL 5’
Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 9
‘AERIAL 1’
Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm Edition of 9
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 1’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 2’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 3’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 4’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 5’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 6’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 7’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 8’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 9’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
‘THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 10’ Lenticular Photograph 100 x 100 cm / 75 X 75 cm Edition of 6
BIOGRAPHY: JEFF ROBB
Jeffrey Robb (1965, Derbyshire, UK) trained at the Royal College of Art in London. Robb has always explored the illusion of a threedimensional image within the two dimensional space. First, he worked with holographic stereograms, transmission and reflection holograms and laser light installations. Today, he is best know for his series of lenticular prints such as Other sides and Aerial: moving images derived from painting, photography, computer graphics, film and video. Following the 19th century obsession with movement which led to the invention of cinema, Robb creates 3D moving images by means of lenticular photography, a hologram-like image that creates the illusion of depth and the possibility of seeing different sides of the image as we look from different angles. His work shows splashing, tossing and turning female nudes where the artifice is not concealed but embraced as Robb creates hybrid, robot-like creatures that come to life by the mere act of looking. The artist’s intention is to open a threshold that connects our physical world with a virtual one. Our everyday experience and perception of the world is altered as our eyes have the power to move and manipulate the constructed figures. His female bodies gravitate within the black box that contains them and are suspended between our real world and the virtuality of their existence; they are liminal bodies: neither sculpture nor photographs, neither matter nor ether. They fully come to existence in our brain, though an optical illusion. The spectator becomes Pygmalion: the Cypriot who could turn his perfect ivory female stattu into a flesh and bone woman by means of a kiss. Robbed from warmth and color, his female nudes correspond to today’s obsession with animated, cyber-like bodies which can be manipulated as our virtual alter egos. His work strives towards a controlled perfection which is far from voluptuous or human. It represents the paradox of 3D: closer to our senses but far from our flesh and bone. An artist avant la letre, Robb’s work can be fully appreciated today as a timely image. His work has earned the attention of collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London or the Getty in L.A.
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