CEDRIC BOMFORD
PALAST DER REPUBLIK, 2005

Lightjet c-print mounted on aluminum, 2008
Image: 49.5 cm. x 160 cm
Unique, Special edition for Presentation House Gallery
Image courtesy the artist

Estimate: $2,000

Cedric Bomford (b. 1975) is an emerging Canadian artist currently based in Australia. Working nimbly between installation, sculpture and photography, his recent exhibition together with Nathan Bomford at the Or Gallery, Vancouver was an immense multi-part architectural installation entitled “For Fools and Traitors Nothing”. Cedric Bomford’s photo works often take the form of typological studies in the manner of influential German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. His documents of architectural structures, from the Berlin Zoo to common industrial air vents, meld objective and rational strategies of composition with a sensitive eye for everyday occurrences in the social landscape. Bomford’s photo for Presentation House Gallery depicts the infamous Palast der Republik in Berlin (completed in 1976 and now being demolished) and is typical of the prevailing architectural style of East German buildings with its bronze windows and a facade over 180 meters long.

Cedric Bomford received a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in 2003 and completed his MFA at the Malmo Konsthogskolan in Malmo, Sweden. His collaborative project Collecting Collective has been featured in C Magazine. He has exhibited internationally in Germany, Sweden, Iran, Australia and is part of the nomadic Tehran Biennale Never Been to Tehran.