Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Ocean Landscape Photographs by Catherine Opie
Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT
Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne
Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT
Munich, Germany - Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is one of the most important and, at the same time, least known of the German Surrealists. To this day, his oeuvre remains surrounded by mystery and taboos. The retrospective in the Pinakothek der Moderne is the first exhibition for over a quarter of a century in Germany to be dedicated to Bellmer’s work and was originally organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris. It assembles numerous and hitherto unknown drawings from museums and private collections, photographs, paintings, unpublished note pads and sketch books as well as some sculptural objects, among them »La poupée« (»The doll«).
Recent Work by Japanese Artist and Architect Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner
Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by Yutaka Sone, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. This is the artist’s fifth solo show since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999. Working in a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance—Yutaka Sone’s work revolves around a tension between realism and perfection. The artist originally trained as an architect and an almost obsessive attention to detail and its relationship to a larger whole underpin his practice at large. Whether architectural or natural, landscapes occur throughout the artist’s oeuvre, and he frequently picks his subjects from actual locations—Hong Kong Island, Los Angeles highway junctions, a mountain range, a section of a rainforest, ski resorts, and his own backyard—recreating these to scale in paint, marble, and crystal, or using organic materials such as plants and soil.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
"Troposphere" by Mitch Dobrowner
Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:01 PM PDT
Monday, 19 September 2011
Exhibition of Polaroid Photographs / Film Now Expired Forever
Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT
Sunday, 18 September 2011
Mass nude photo shoot in Dead Sea
DEAD SEA, Israel (AFP) - Dawn over the lowest spot on earth illuminated a Dead Sea very much alive on Saturday, as more than 1,000 floating nude Israelis posed for a mass shoot by US photographer Spencer Tunick.
The project, Tunick's first in the Middle East, is part of a bid to boost Israel's campaign to have the salt-saturated feature recognised as one of the world's seven natural wonders in a global online vote in November.
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Experts warn that the Dead Sea could dry out by 2050 unless urgent steps are taken to halt its demise.
For Tunick, a Jewish American who has arranged naked human bodies over prominent landscapes and landmarks ranging from a Swiss glacier to the Sydney Opera House, a nude installation is an indicator of a host country's openness.
"In some places the work is a little bit more controversial, and then in other places the works are accepted as a litmus test for how free a country is, or how open a country is, and how full of rights a country is," he told a pre-shoot press briefing.
Orthodox Jewish politicians and rabbis had protested over what they termed the "Sodom and Gomorrah" nature of Tunick's work, and threatened to take legal action against the plan to strip in public.
The head of the local council in whose area the early-morning photo session took place had threatened to call police to disperse the shoot, which he said was offensive to local residents.
But organisers kept the location secret until the last moment to secure it, and there were no hitches to the two-hour session at the Mineral Beach complex, not far from where tradition says the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, irreparably overrun by sin, were destroyed by God along with their inhabitants. Tunick, who grew up in the largely Hassidic community of South Fallsburg, NY, said in the briefing that he could understand how religious people could find his work offensive.
"That's why I've decided to do the work on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath), so no-one would be walking by and see a naked person half a mile away and be offended," he said.
The Dead Sea's surface level is plunging by about a metre (39 inches) each year, and the shoreline has receded by more than a kilometre (0.6 mile) in places, according to some estimates.
For Ari Frucht, who initiated the project and has toiled over its preparations for the past four years, a work by Spencer Tunick could help raise awareness of the sea's condition and galvanise Israel's government into action.
He believes there is another aspect, too, to the Jewish state hosting such a shoot.
"The world needs to know that Israelis are not religious extremists," he said ahead of the event.
Besides involvement in public disrobing, the installation provided Chai Amir, a 35-year-old resident of central city Bnei Brack, an opportunity to do something for a cause he believed in.
"I'm glad I was able to take part in an event aimed at saving the Dead Sea," he said as the shoot wrapped. "You can really see how the waterline recedes every year."
A jubilant Tunick praised the "brave" participants of his installation, some of whom flew to Israel especially for it.
"This could happen nowhere else in the Middle East," he said as the event wound down, and the men and women headed to the showers and buses.
"If you love freedom in New York, freedom in London, freedom in Italy... there's freedom in Israel, and I think this is very important for people to understand."London Art Fair Opens 22nd Edition of Modern British Art
Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:45 PM PDT
Eliot Porter's Photography
Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:07 PM PDT
Laramie, WY.- The Univrsity of Wyoming Art Museum is pleased to present "The West of Eliot Porter: Images of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah" on view at the museum until December 22nd. Eliot Porter (American, 1901-1990) created a new way of viewing the world by introducing color to landscape photography, which today has become commonplace. Porter began working in color in 1939, long before his fellow photographers accepted the medium. Trained as a chemical engineer and a medical doctor, Porter began his career in photography in the early 1930s by making black-and-white prints in his spare time while working as a bacteriologist and teaching at Harvard University. It was around this time that his brother, Fairfield Porter, a realist artist and art critic, introduced him to photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. Offering guidance, Stieglitz began to critique Porter’s black-and-white photographs and in 1938 exhibited Porter’s work in his New York gallery, An American Place.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists
Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:46 PM PDT
Brooklyn, New York. The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) is proud to present the highly anticipated international exhibition entitled, "Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art", curated by Bindi Cole, on view until October 30th. This is the first international group exhibition of this kind to debut in New York City and the United States. The show will feature an array of works in a variety of media from a group of contemporary, indigenous, Australian-based artists. The word “No” does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages, and where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for the elders and is used with great care and ceremony.
Photoworks by American artist John Chamberlain
Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery exhibits a new body of work by the great American artist John Chamberlain. John Chamberlain: Pictures presents nine monumental photoworks, comprised of multiple eight-foot-high stretched canvas panels, each panel hosting a highly-processed and colorized panoramic photograph by the artist. Created in 2010-11, Pictures is Chamberlain’s most candid, autobiographical, and intimate body of work to date. Departing from his sculptures in medium and imagery, these new works on canvas continue the artist’s use of color and composition that infuse his art with extreme energy and power. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication: John Chamberlain: Pictures (SteidlKasher, Gottingen, 2011), text by Carlo McCormick.
Hannah Villiger Photographic Exhibition
Posted: 17 Sep 2011 09:05 PM PDT
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson's Landscapes
Posted: 14 Sep 2011 10:50 PM PDT
Wolfsburg, Germany.- The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is proud to present "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Geometry of the Moment", on view at the museum through May 13th 2012. Henri Cartier-Bresson was the acknowledged ‘master of the moment’. With this presentation of around 100 photographs and 7 drawings by the renowned French artist, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is featuring another pioneering figure in its series of “Great Modernist Photographers”, which has to date included Brassaï, Lee Miller and Edward Steichen. Born in a suburb of Paris in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographic career began in 1930 and continued until 1972, when he decided to concentrate all his energies on drawing. After escaping from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1943 he joined the French Resistance, and in 1947 he co-founded the now world-famous Magnum photo agency with four colleagues.
"Adam Fuss ~ A Survey of His Work"
Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:03 PM PDT
AMSTERDAM.- What immediately stands out with the work of Adam Fuss is that, both in terms of the chosen subject matter and in his approach to the photographic technique, he has greatly dissociated himself from conventional photography. That which Fuss produces is, in fact, still a photograph; but in order to achieve that, he did rid himself of all the finer luxuries available to users of the medium nowadays. Like a present-day alchemist, Fuss has mastered the medium's most elementary and primitive forms; he sees just as much potential for creativity in technical knowledge as in the imagination, or the visionary power of the photographer.
"In His Sixth Decade ~ Prints by Peter Milton"
Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:04 PM PDT
Washington D.C.- The Jane Haslem Gallery is pleased to present "In His Sixth Decade: Prints by Peter Milton" until June 30th. Peter Milton is now in his sixth decade as an artist. His most recent prints, which embrace digitally produced imagery, have sent him in another new and perhaps unexpected direction. These new prints are more luminous and three dimensional. Proving, once again, that Milton continues to reinvent himself by pushing his art to another level of visual experience.
Staying Alive Foundation
Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:47 PM PDT
Dallas.- The MTV Staying Alive Foundation has announced a dynamic new project to mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus. Hosted at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas and curated by The Future Tense, "MTV RE:DEFINE" will bring together original works, many specially commissioned for the project, from a bold roster of 30 of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists, photographers and sculptors, including key emerging talents. All 30 pieces will be auctioned, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which encourages, energizes and empowers young people who are involved in HIV and AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns. The exhibition will be open to the public from Friday, September 16th and will culminate in a VIP reception on Saturday, September 24th during which all 30 works will feature in a live auction event in support of the Staying Alive Foundation. For those unable to attend the event, absentee bids will also be accepted including via telephone.
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
"Dead or Alive"
Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:02 PM PDT
"Sleeping Under Stars"
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT
Alice Anderson's "Time Reversal"
Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:25 PM PDT
Gallery Nature Morte Berlin presents ASIANART-SUSTAIN Exhibition
Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:42 PM PDT
BERLIN, GERMANY - Gallery Nature Morte Berlin presents ASIANART-SUSTAIN, an exhibition curated by Tereza de Arruda in the framework of the 8th Asia-Pacific Weeks, a bi-annual forum for political, economical, educational, and cultural exchange between Germany and the Asian-Pacific region. The focus of this year’s Asia-Pacific Weeks are Water, Food, and Health, issues which determined the selection of the artists from China, India and Japan.
Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- To inaugurate Galerie Lelong’s fall season, multidisciplinary artist Jane Hammond presents her latest body of work, the “dazzle paintings-”—a stunning combination of painting and photography in which the artist infuses the still image with a sense of flow, interactivity, and mutability. Paired with the dazzle paintings there is also a new collection of the artist’s silver gelatin prints. Light Now: Dazzle Paintings and Photographs opened to the public on Thursday, September 8 and on view until 22 October.
vHarper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style at the International Center of Photography
Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:27 PM PDT
NEW YORK, N.Y.- In the ten years since Glenda Bailey became Editor in Chief of Harper’s Bazaar, she and Creative Director Stephen Gan have carried on the magazine’s tradition of publishing innovative, high-impact photography. Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style, on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from September 9, 2011 through January 8, 2012, distills that decade into a choice group of nearly thirty images by some of the most important photographers working today. To emphasize the work’s original context and the magazine’s award-winning design, the exhibition will include several vitrines with issues open to display extended stories alongside the striking covers, swept clean of cover-line text, that are sent to Bazaar’s subscribers.
Photographers in the exhibition include Peter Lindbergh, Jean-Paul Goude, David Bailey, William Klein, Patrick Demarchelier, Terry Richardson, Camilla Akrans, Sølve Sundsbø, Mark Seliger, Tim Walker, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. The magazine has also regularly featured artists who are not usually associated with fashion, so Nan Goldin, Ralph Gibson, and Chuck Close are in the mix, along with two photographers who have a long, legendary history at Bazaar, Hiro and Melvin Sokolsky.
In addition to inventive fashion images in a wide range of styles, from classic to cinematic, there are vivid portraits of designers Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, and Diane Von Furstenberg, and celebrities, including Daphne Guinness and Lady Gaga.
“Fashion magazines have always considered it an important part of their mission to combine art and commerce,” said ICP Guest Curator Vince Aletti, who organized the exhibition. “Harper’s Bazaar has a particularly distinguished history of hiring great photographers, printing important writers, and training a keen eye on the arts.”
“Fashion reflects what’s going on in our world, and Bazaar makes pop culture fashionable,” said Bailey. “This exhibition is the culmination of a decade in a new world where every popular phenomenon comes with a fashion spin.”
Under Bailey, Bazaar has been especially alert to shifts in the culture, casting Ellen DeGeneres as a successful presidential candidate in one wish-fulfilling fashion feature and imagining the second chapter in the life of an abruptly downsized female exec in another. Photographers are encouraged to borrow freely from the wide world of pop, so Seliger is inspired by iconic shots of Barbra Streisand for his black-and-white portraits of Jennifer Aniston, Demarchelier casts Stephanie Seymour as a Warhol superstar, and Julianne Moore looks like she stepped out of a John Currin painting in Peter Lindbergh’s witty transformation.
An accompanying book, Harper’s Bazaar: Greatest Hits collects these alluring, lively, and humorous visions into a single volume that celebrates the best of Bazaar from 2001 to 2011.
Aletti previously co-curated ICP’s dramatic “Year of Fashion” in 2009, including the shows Avedon Fashion 1944–2000, Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, and This Is Not a Fashion Photograph.
Interpreting the power and evolution of photography, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. ICP creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. These include exhibitions, collections, and education for the general public, members, students, and professionals in the field of photography. Photography occupies a vital and central place in contemporary culture; it reflects and influences social change, provides an historical record, is essential to visual communication and education, opens new opportunities for personal and aesthetic expression, has transformed popular culture, has revolutionized scientific research, and continually evolves to incorporate new technologies. Visit : http://www.icp.org/
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