Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith: Mind's Eye at Hermes

DATE: 3/17/2012 | BY PAUL BERNSTEIN

A beautiful show of photographs by Matt Ducklo and Matthew Monteith opened on Thursday at The Gallery at Hermes on Madison Avenue, New York. Titled Mind's Eye by curator Cory Jacobs it poses the question "When you look, what do you see?" Matt Ducklo has been photographing "touch tours" at major museums for the last 6 years. The tours are made available to the blind, who are invited to touch and feel works of art. The 7 Ducklo pictures are paired with images by Monteith who spent 2 years living in Rome photographing tourists taking in the city's historical treasures. Monteith's pictures below of Bill and Carmella with David happens to grace the cover of photographic quarterly FANTOM (No.8). The next issue, releasing in May (No. 9), will feature more of his Rome pictures. Monteith has also been photographing Lincoln Center, New York's mecca for seeing and feeling arts. The pictures will be published in a forthcoming Damiani book on the renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro to be released in the Fall of 2012. Mind's Eye is on view until April 28th, 2012.