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"To produce the works presented in \u201CThe Sky Is Shaped By Its City Buildings,\u201D currently on show at London\u2019s Rook &amp;amp; Raven, Alexis Dahan stopped in his tracks, looked up, and shot. The skies and architecture he captured from London to Milan are his central subjects \u2014 abstracted to the point of disappearance.In the four large pieces exhibited in the gallery\u2019s first space, buildings have become black geometrical forms, framing an expanse of white sky. They hark back unashamedly to the constructivists and their play with dynamic shapes, yet their charm lays in the knowledge that these aren\u2019t just pure abstraction, but records, however elusive, of moments in time.In another series, Dahan goes as far as translating these slices of emptiness into milky white reliefs, as if suggesting one could just grab a chunk of sky and walk away with it stuffed in a basket. Once again, each work is anchored in a particular place. The titles read \u201CVigo and Sackeville,\u201D \u201CSaville Row,\u201D \u201CPlough Yard\u201D \u2014 fragments of the city, echoed in the immensity of the sky above.Benjamin and Baudelaire\u2019s flaneurs, Guy Debord\u2019s d\u00E9rive, and Michel de Certeau\u2019s walker are all echoed in this work, which gives a fetching physical incarnation to something as intangible as the feeling of losing oneself in the metropolis. One can only regret the inclusion of the unaltered photographs presented in a second gallery. They reveal too much of a mystery that, perhaps, would have been best preserved.&amp;nbsp;Alexis Dahan, The Sky is Shaped by Its City Buildings, May 9 \u2013 June 6, 2013, Rook &amp;amp; Raven, LondonFollow @UK_ARTINFO"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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