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The Robert Berman Gallery offers Transformation, the companion show to Paid to Play

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Starting Saturday, October 15th, the Robert Berman Gallery presents Transformation, which features conceptual photography from Robert Heinecken and Victor Landweber. Transformation is the companion show to Paid to Play, the Robert Berman Gallery’s latest exhibition. Transformation focuses on art that was transformed from commercialism. In Robert Heinecken’s Recto/Verso photogram portfolio – a single page from a mass circulation magazine depicting women and fashion is placed in direct contact with color photographic paper and exposed to light. The resulting image superimposes the visual and verbal information from the front and back of the magazine page without the use of collage, manipulation or other handwork. Victor Landweber’s Cherie Holding Colored Cards is a photographic series shot in 1976 juxtaposing nudes with colored card paint samples. Both series examine sexuali