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Lágrimas de Eros


Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza y Fundación Caja Madrid

El título de la exposición procede del último libro publicado en vida por Georges Bataille, Les Larmes d’Éros (1961). Aquella fue la aportación final del autor sobre un problema que había indagado a fondo en su obra El erotismo (1957): la íntima relación entre Eros y Tánatos, entre la pulsión sexual y el instinto de muerte.


El punto de partida de Bataille es la certeza de que en la petite mort del orgasmo experimentamos un avant-goût, una anticipación de la muerte definitiva. El recurso a imágenes de la agonía para expresar el clímax amoroso y al lenguaje del éxtasis para representar la muerte no es desde luego una invención de Bataille.


Lo encontramos en Wagner, en la poesía romántica, en Bernini y en Miguel Ángel, en los místicos españoles y en la lírica griega arcaica. Lo que Bataille cree haber hallado es un fundamento para la identificación entre Eros y Tánatos: tanto en la muerte como en la consumación erótica regresamos, desde la discontinuidad de la vida individual, a la continuidad originaria del Ser.

La identidad entre Eros y Tánatos sólo cobra sentido para Bataille en el contexto de la experiencia de lo sagrado. El erotismo es objeto de un tabú, de una prohibición (interdit) que ilumina lo prohibido “con una luz a la vez siniestra y divina: lo ilumina, en una palabra, con una luz religiosa”.


En el erotismo, como en lo sagrado, la prohibición no existe sin la transgresión. La prohibición excluye lo natural, los impulsos animales, para instaurar el dominio de lo cultural. Pero desde el mismo momento en que es formulada, la prohibición desencadena el retorno de lo excluido, de lo que se había rechazado con horror.


Los impulsos bestiales regresan en el sacrificio religioso, donde su violencia es moldeada como un material precioso y peligroso. El sacrificio es para Bataille el escenario último del erotismo.


Para explorar la íntima relación entre Eros y Tánatos, nuestra exposición dispone las figuras mitológicas en un itinerario casi narrativo que avanza desde la inocencia a la tentación, de la tentación a los suplicios de la pasión, hasta la expiación y la muerte.


Mostra na França reúne obras do Grupo de Bloomsbury

O museu "La Piscine", na cidade de Roubaix, norte da França, apresenta até 23 de fevereiro de 2010 a exposição "Le groupe de Bloomsbury", com quadros, manuscritos, cartas, livros e fotografias do movimento artístico inglês do início do século 20.


Fundado em 2001, o "La Piscine" - um antigo espaço de piscina municipal - refaz a trajetória do grupo que se inspirou nos modernistas franceses e tinha como figura central a escritora Virginia Woolf. Integravam o círculo do bairro londrino de Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell e o economista John Maynard Keynes, este último atualmente na roda dos debates sobre a crise financeira mundial.

"Nascido no início do século passado no bairro londrino que lhe deu nome, o grupo se torna um fenômeno cultural único", diz a curadoria. As obras literárias de Virginia Woolf e as exposições organizadas por Roger Fry, que abriram a Grã Bretanha para a arte moderna, nasciam de um cruzamento de disciplinas.

A exposição reúne ainda quadros de Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh e Gauguin, os mestres franceses. Parte do acervo veio de arquivos públicos e privados da Grã Bretanha, França e Alemanha. São mais de 150 obras: quadros, cerâmica, mobiliário e têxtil. A regra do grupo era exercer a crítica interna sem as barreiras do comodismo.

Terra Magazine (http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/ Terça, 29 de dezembro de 2009)

«Rios Douro» - As muitas faces do grande rio do Norte

«Rios Douro», a exposição que fará mostra das várias faces do grande rio do Norte, actor principal do Património Cultural da UNESCO, inaugura a 14 de Dezembro.

O evento está integrado num ciclo de actividades culturais que o Museu do Douro promove até 2011.

Café Portugal sexta-feira, 20 de Novembro de 2009


No dia em que se assinalam os oito anos sobre a classificação do Douro como Património Mundial da Humanidade, a 14 de Dezembro, o Museu do Douro, em Peso da Régua, inaugura a exposição «Rios Douro». Uma mostra que presta homenagem ao grande rio do Norte, actor principal de toda uma região. Assim o vê o director do museu, Fernando Maia Pinto.

A paisagem natural, agrícola e construída, os costumes, trajes, os rostos das populações são elementos do Douro presentes numa exposição que percorre diferentes olhares e abordagens da pintura, à etnografia, documentos escritos e fotografias.

Fernando Maia Pinto, descrevendo a exposição que decorre até Abril de 2011, refere-se a uma mostra que começa com um Douro de «estética» mas que depois evolui para caminhos mais tecnológicos.


Contribuem para a exposição «Rios Douro» Joaquim Lopes, Manuel Casal Aguiar, Lixa Felgueiras, entre outros. A mostra inclui uma instalação na qual um barco rabelo (apto ao transporte de Vinho do Porto no rio Douro) será recuperado ao vivo.

O Museu do Douro vai investir 2,4 milhões de euros em 2010 numa programação que inclui a realização de várias exposições, 41 concertos e o reforço da rede com mais cinco núcleos museológicos espalhados pelo território duriense.

Exposição "Remade in Portugal" mostra a partir de hoje peças ecológicas no Museu da Electricidade

29.07.2009
Lusa

A exposição "Remade in Portugal" é inaugurada hoje à noite com peças de design ecológico de cerca de três dezenas de criadores portugueses no Museu da Electricidade, sob o título "A um Passo do Sonho".

Pela terceira vez consecutiva em Lisboa, a exposição surge este ano em contexto de crise global, e pretende chamar a atenção para a importância de hábitos de consumo responsáveis, o impacto do desperdício na sociedade e na natureza, além da criação de soluções sustentáveis para o futuro.

O director artístico do projecto "Remade in Portugal", Roberto Cremascoli, disse à Agência Lusa que, desde o início, em 2007, a iniciativa conseguiu que fossem desenvolvidos 105 peças de design ecológico e colocar metade em produção e comercialização.

A iniciativa conta este ano com a participação exclusiva de artistas portugueses de várias áreas, desde as artes plásticas, design, arquitectura e moda como Rita Garizo, Joana Vasconcelos, Nuno Cera, Ana Salazar, Maria Gambina, Alda Tomás, Carlos Aguiar, Ricardo Dourado, João Mendes Ribeiro, entre outros.

"Remade in Portugal" divide-se em seis núcleos, começando por uma chamada de atenção para os problemas ambientais que assolam o país - a seca, as inundações e os incêndios - através de um "Alerta" em vídeo concebido pelo artista Nuno Cera.

Segue-se o "Labirinto Remade", com obras feitas em materiais reciclados por profissionais das áreas do design, arquitectura e moda, depois surge o núcelo "Novos Talentos", com obras também recicladas criadas por finalistas universitários.

O quarto núcleo chama-se "Arco do Triunfo", criado pelo artista plástico Xana, e o seguinte é a instalação "The order of today is the disorder of tomorrow" de Pedro Valdez Cardoso.

O "Jardim do Éden", criado pela artista Joana Vasconcelos, fecha a exposição, com uma imagem do paraíso que remete para o tema do sonho do "Remade in Portugal", projecto que conta com o apoio institucional da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente e Direcção Geral das Artes do Ministério da Cultura.

Criado originalmente em 2004 pela Regione Lombardia, em Itália, o projecto obteve a adesão do Ministério do Ambiente italiano e de vários consórcios ligados à reciclagem, passando a "Remade in Italy", com a finalidade de difundir a cultura do eco-design e do desenvolvimento sustentável.

A partir do projecto "Remade in Italy" foi criada uma rede da qual já fazem parte, Portugal, Chile, Brasil e Argentina. Espanha e França vão ser os próximos países a aderir a esta iniciativa.

A exposição "Remade in Portugal" estará patente ao público até 13 de Setembro.


in http://ecosfera.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1393761

Spiegelbilder - Videoinstallation


Spiegelbilder was shown on the 21-23.05 2009 in the Krypta/ St. Petri Dom Bremen - Germany. Length: 25min.
Contemplation and self-assessment in times of hypertrends and overinformation. To get a picture and to stay in the picture as two antagonism of the modern age.

1989-2009: Turbulent World - Telling Time

© Irina Abzhandadze (Georgia)
© Igor Savchenko (Belarus)


© Olga Chernysheva (Russia)


© Erbossyn Meldibekov/ Nurbossyn Oris (Kazakhstan)



Contemporary Photography and Video Works from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Germany

Location: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin


11 July - 13 September 2009

Opening: Friday 10 July 6pm


1989-2009: Turbulent World - Telling Time

An exhibition of the Goethe-Institutes of Eastern Europe / Central Asia.
Created in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste

After its launch in Berlin, the Goethe-Institute exhibition will travel to Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and other cities.

Head curator: Dr. Jule Reuter (Berlin) in cooperation with local curators in participating countries

The exhibition, "Turbulent World - Telling Time", looks at the far-reaching processes of change symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, through the eyes of artists from the former Soviet Union. It focuses on an artistic reflection on this "turbulent" period, and is to be viewed as an empirical approach to a complex theme.

Developed by Jule Reuter together with local curators, the exhibition presents 16 photographic and video positions: diverse reflections on processes and experiences of change in seven former Soviet states (today counted as part of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus) and in Germany. Four important themes come to the fore: family, identity, urban change and politics.

The central theme of family is exemplified in the documentary photographic series of Irina Abzhandadze and Christian Borchert. Other artists (Erbossyn Meldibekov/ Nurbossyn Oris, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Igor Savchenko) use photographs from old family albums as a point of departure for their artistic work. Using the biographies of their parents' generation, these artists raise questions about the time, place and style of photography, and prompt reflection about the role of this medium in both private and public contexts.

Confrontations with personal histories also raise the issue of personal identity. In this case, "telling" means recounting one's own story - and the artists Tina Bara/Alba D'Urbano and Oksana Shatalova achieve this goal in very different ways. The artistic self-portraits by Alevtina Kakhidze and Talgat Asyrankulov present powerful images of a hybrid, post-Soviet identity.

Another group of photographic works (Shailo Djekshenbaev, Oksana Shatalova, Viktor Marushchenko, Viktor An) deals with urban change and the affects on society of declining production and shrinking cities. While Marushchenko documents the degrading working conditions in the illegal mines of Ukraine, Viktor An's 1989 photographs of the ecological catastrophe in the Aral Sea reiterate the origin of some of these problems.

Two large-format video works by Olga Chernysheva and Koka Ramishvili shed light on the political sphere and its rituals. By coincidence, these works come from exactly those two countries in the region that faced off militarily in 2008 over a conflict of interest.

With all these elements, this exhibition takes a special approach to the often painful and troubling experiences of this period, presenting many impressive artistic contributions that confront and reflect upon turbulent times.


The exhibition includes about 200 photographic works and five video works.

Participating artists:
Irina Abzhandadze (Georgia), Viktor An (Uzbekistan), Talgat Asyrankulov (Kyrgyzstan), Tina Bara/Alba D'Urbano (Germany, Italy), Christian Borchert (Germany), Olga Chernysheva (Russia), Shailo Djekshenbaev (Kyrgyzstan), Alevtina Kakhidze (Ukraine), Vladimir Kupriyanov (Russia), Viktor Marushchenko (Ukraine), Erbossyn Meldibekov/ Nurbossyn Oris (Kazakhstan), Koka Ramishvili (Georgia), Igor Savchenko (Belarus), Oksana Shatalova (Kazakhstan)

Catalogue:
A tri-lingual catalogue (German, Russian and English) contains brief texts by the curators on works from their countries, as well as introductory essays by historian and Slavist Barbara Christophe and head curator Jule Reuter.


OLD, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS


OLD, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS

WEDNESDAY JULY, 1st 2009 14.00 pm

ADER Auction House at
HÔTEL DROUOT RICHELIEU - SALLE 2
9, rue Drouot - 75009 Paris

Online catalogue : www.ader-paris.fr

Specialist : M. Antoine ROMAND | Tél. : +33 (0)6 07 14 40 49 | Mail : aromand@gmail.com

Hippolyte Arnoux & Justin Kozlowski
Suez Canal album, 1 & 2. Port Saïd. Construction. Workers. Inauguration. 1859-1869.



OLD PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Baldus, Braun & Dornack, Walery, Atget, Nadar, Plüschow, Gloeden, Piot, Cuccioni, Sommer, Rhomaïdes, Green, Arnoux, Kozlowski, Beato, Bonfils, Zangaki, Lehnert & Landrock, Gastaldy, Anceau de Meherent.

PARIS - REGIONALISM - PORTRAITS - NUDE - 1st WORLD WAR (1914-1918) - MEDICINE
TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS
Italy, Greece, Norway, Maghreb, Middle East, Asia (India, China, Japan)
Rare album about the Suez Canal construction - World Tour on board of L'Iphigénie, c.1900. - (Europe, Middle East, Senegal, Caribbean, Madagascar, Mayotte, Maghreb, Zanzibar, Reunion Island, China) - Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Brazil) - North America

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnisky) (1890-1976)
Hanina II, 1956.


MODERN & CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Albin-Guillot - Apesteguy - Argillet - Asano - Auradon - Batho - Bauret - Beaton - Bellon - Bert Stern - Bosser - Boltanski - Boubat - Boucher - Bovis - Brassaï - Cartier-Bresson - Castex - Chazal - Clergue - Colomb - Desrue - Doisneau - Dritkol - Dubrunfaut - Ehrmann - Feher - M. Franck - Gassian - Gaumy - Giniès - Hamilton - Hausmann - Ionesco - Jonvelle - Kertész - Kollar - Korczowski - Korda - Lebée - Liberman - Hajek Halke - Man Ray - Monier - Mapplethorpe - Martin - Mc Bride - Molinier - Morath - Nogues - Oleg Kulik - Parr - Peccoux - Quinn - René-Jacques - Riboud - Robin - Ronis - Ropp - Roth - Salgado - Shinoyama - Sieff - Sougez - Stettner - Strömholm - Saudek - Tahara - Tikhomiroff - Villers - Verger - Voinquel - Weiss

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Spain, Senegal
AVANT-GARDE - CINEMA - FASHION - NUDE - EROTICISM - PARIS - HUNGARY - USA (NEW YORK CITY) - MOUTAINS - BULLFIGHTING - DANCE - PHOTOJOURNALISM - HUMANISM
ARTIST AND CELEBRITY PORTRAITS
Picasso - Maillol - Derain - Ernst - Giacometti - Vasarely - Lanskoy - Van Velde - De Staël Cocteau - Tzara - Bellmer - Breton - Dali - Alechinsky - Bacon - Haring - Hockney - Marilyn Monroe - Delon - Gabin - Piaf - Barbara - Gainsbourg - Birkin - Deneuve - Marceau - The Rolling Stones - John Lee Hooker
Rockfeller Center construction. New York City. Manhattan, 1929-1940.

Exhibition of the main items on RDV at the auction house.

Public exhibition salle 2
Tuesday June 30th from 11.00 am to 06.00 pm - Wednesday July 1st from 11.00 am to 12.00

Phone during the exhibition : + 33 (0)1 48 00 20 02
Online catalogue : www.ader-paris.fr

Specialist :

Mr Antoine ROMAND
3, rue Crespin du Gast - 75011 Paris
Phone : 06 07 14 40 49 - aromand@gmail.com


NASA. Apollo XVI. John YOUNG. 1972.



ADER Auction House

8, rue St Marc 75002 PARIS
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Mail : contact@ader-paris.fr
Web : www.ader-paris.fr

Malick Sidibé - Fotografia

© Malick Sidibé
A Yé-Yé Posing, 1963
silver gelatin print, printed later

© Malick Sidibé
Friends of the Spanish, 1968

© Malick Sidibé
Christmas Eve, 1963

© Malick Sidibé
Karim Keita, the gentleman, 1967

© Malick Sidibé
A Yé-Yé Dancer, 1965

© Malick Sidibé
Look at me Wearing my Dark Glasses and my Hat, 1969

© Malick Sidibé
Portrait of Mlle Kante Sira, 1965

© Malick Sidibé
Two Sisters, 1971



Malick Sidibé

Winner of the Hasselblad prize 2003, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2007
ICP Infinity award 2008, and Baume & Mercier award at Photo Espagna 2009.

Exhibition until 31 July 2009


HackelBury Fine Art Ltd.
4 Launceston Place, London W8 5RL
Tel +44 (0)20 7937 8688
Fax +44 (0)20 7937 8868
reception@hackelbury.co.uk
www.hackelbury.co.uk
Tues-Sat 10am - 5pm


Malick Sidibé was born around 1935, in a small village in Mali. Because of his talent for drawing, he was encouraged by his school tutors to enlist in the school of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako where he studied jewellery and graduated in 1955. This is where he met Gerard Guillat, who was looking for a student to decorate his "Photo Service" shop and studio. He chose Malick for the job and when it was finished he asked him to stay as his apprentice.

Malick bought his first camera in 1956, and in 1958 he opened his own studio in Bagadadji, in the heart of Bamako, where he still works today. Like Seydou Keïta before him, Malick Sidibé started with studio portraits. But unlike his predecessor he soon became a street photographer and the only young reporter in Bamako at that time.

In the 60's and 70's Malick worked mainly with the burgeoning club scene of the young folk of Bamako. Clubs with glamorous names like "Les Cyclones", "Les Monkees" or "Les Chats Sauvages" were constantly sprouting up and were all the rage. Surprise parties in the evenings, river Niger on hot Sundays, football championships, boxing matches, and all sorts of events that Malick illustrated with moving photographs, lively snapshots, and leisure poses. Malick's photography studio itself became a hip hangout for Bamako's youth. Being a real inside-scenester, Malick was entrusted by his clients to photograph them at all times.

Malick Sidibé's pictures reflect the convivial and carefree atmosphere of a post-colonial African capital. But beyond that they are simple, spontaneous, yet extremely beautiful images, illustrating moments of truth and complicity. They reveal Malick Sidibé's love of people and his passion for photography and allow us to witness another face of Africa. Recent exhibitions of Malick Sidibé's work include the Deitch Projects, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago both in 1999. A vintage show at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, as well as the "You look beautiful like that" show at the Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles and at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; all in 2002.

There was a major retrospective of his work at the National Portrait Gallery, London, alongside fellow Mali photographer Seydou Keïta, in 2003. This was also the year that Malick was awarded the prestigious Hasselblad Prize. Since then he has continued to be exhibited and added to public and private collections worldwide, and in 2007 became the first photographer to be awarded the Lion d'Or for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale.

Olaf Martens - Fotografia

Hochhausfassade am Thälmannplatz, Halle 1986 © Olaf Martens

© Olaf Martens

Sabine I, Nordhausen, 1983 © Olaf Martens

Weimar 1986 © Olaf Martens



Olaf Martens Blockschokolade GDR 1979-1989

26th June - 3rd October 2009

Opening: Thursday June 26th 6:30pm.


The artist will give an introduction to his work from 7-7:30pm

Galerie f5,6
Nicole Stanner
Ludwigstr. 7 (Odeonsplatz) . 80539 München
Tel: +49 (0)89 28 67 51 67
Fax: +49 (0)89 28 67 52 83
info@f56.net
www.f56.net


"Olaf Martens has been sighting his archive for some time now. True treasures have come to light. Nobody has photographed everyday-life in the DDR quite as unvarnished as him. Martens mastered Street Photography of the East at a time when he couldn't have even known the term existed Olaf Martens does what one is not supposed to.

" Hans Eberhard Hess Photo International



Gallery f5.6, Munich, is very proud to present for the first time ever, Olaf Martens DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) works from 1979-1989. This represents the 10-year time span prior to unification of the two German states. In the last months Olaf Martens has been going through his archive for the first time in 20 years. The result is an extensive but very personal view of the DDR, not seen before. At the same time these early works shed a completely new light on - and root his more well known later and recent staged works in a very different manner.

Olaf Martens was a member of the so-called Thomas Mann Club in Nordhausen before attending East Germany's elite art school, the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, from 1985-1992. His fellow students at this time were Rosa Loy, Neo Rauch, Matthias Hoch or Hans Christian Schink to name but a few. It is important to contextualise how art and in particular photography was practised in the DDR. In the West, due to complete freedom of press, art and image culture was a completely normal part of every-day life. In the East, however, images could only exist within the boundaries of total state control. Contemporary art and media culture from the west were hardly to be seen in Eastern Germany. Within photography, landscape and portraits were allowed. Reportage and documentary photography, under the heading of socially engaged photography, was also encouraged and interestingly, nude photography was not taboo. In all these categories, one could of course only photograph what the state wanted to have depicted. Olaf Martens photographed in all of the encouraged categories and always carefully extended over the allowed boundaries pursuing his personal vision. He obsessively photographed street and architectural city scenes, landscapes, children, teenagers, parties of all kinds, old people in their surroundings, friends and family and shop windows. Like Ed van der Elsken, Diane Arbus or Lee Friedlander, Olaf Marten's work is never just part of the documentary tradition, they always are ironic and play with the absurdity of human existence, especially when living in a totalitarian state, where this very easily becomes one of the only forms of expression, in order to criticise. Early on in his career Martens looked for private locations to experiment with his pictorial ideas that were not possible with his daily photographic hunt on the street. By using nude photography, which was allowed, Martens used this category, kind of like a walking stick. He started meshing this more and more with all other categories that were allowed. His pictorial language ever more clearly started pointing to ruptures and his personal situation of having to work within a totalitarian state, yet always within the given boundaries. Whenever he crossed the border - the Volkspolizei would suddenly appear out of nowhere and confiscate his films. The STASI (Staatssicherheit - East Germany's organised control arm) was thus a steady presence in Olaf Marten's life. Often they are also part of his images, whether by accident or deliberately. In an image of a gathering of youths in Nordhausen in 1983 two men stick out of the masses of young people like two sore thumbs - two STASI associates.

Olaf Martens only now, almost 20 years later, felt able to go back through his archive of his early career. Together we have selected over 70 images to show Marten's personal picture of the DDR and also to gain a deeper insight into the roots of his work today. Olaf Martens has always been unique - overflowing with humour, energy and above all endless creativity.

Olaf Martens was quickly celebrated in the early nineties as one of the upcoming East German photographers with publications in Stern, FAZ Magazine and so forth. Today his work is found more within the International art world. Since the end of the nineties his work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows like the Leopold Museum Wien, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstforum Halle, Fotomuseum Wintherthur, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

Exposição de Artes Plásticas: "Na demanda do Graal"

Concha Rozas
Luis Santos
Maria Duarte
Xana Barata


De 20 de Junho a 5 de Julho,
no Salão Nobre,
Fortaleza de Peniche.

Paolo Roversi - Fotografia

© Paolo Roversi
Portrait of Natalia
Paris, 2003

© Paolo Roversi
Guinevere sitting on table
Paris, 2004

© Paolo Roversi
Yelena
Paris, 1996

© Paolo Roversi
Theatre
Paris, 1998

Paolo Roversi

Juni 13 - July 25, 2009

CAMERA WORK Gallery
Contemporary Photography and Vintage Masterworks
Kantstraße 149 . 10623 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 31 00 77 - 3
| Fax: +49 30 31 00 77 - 50
info@camerawork.de
| www.camerawork.de
Opening Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

"From June 13 to July 25, 2009, CAMERA WORK will exhibit the works of fashion photographer Paolo Roversi in its gallery showrooms.

For over 35 years, Paolo Roversi, born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, has been working and living in Paris. The exhibition of around 50 photographs will show, beyond the series Guinivere and Nudi, pictures of the studio of the artist in Paris, portraits, as well as works of his lightpaintings. Owing to the well-balanced quality of colors and the clear composition of the photographs of the artist as well as the particular charm and grace of his models, the observer of these photographs is often tempted to study them more as paintings. This effect is also a result of the technique of the artist.

Since 1980 Roversi takes pictures with a 8x10 inch polaroid camera. The prints obtain their distinctive appearance through faded shades of skin color, as can, for example, be seen in the series Guinivere. Over the period of twelve years Roversi accompanied his muse of the same name with the camera in this long-term study. As a result, a mixture of abstract forms of graphic character and very intimate studies was generated. Whether the model is dressed or naked the photographs of Guinivere are unconventional and often provocative portraits.

The series Nudi is marked by a clear composition. The observer sees naked women in full-length portraits which seem to transparently merge into the white picture background. The ladies displayed in the exhibition are top models such as Kate Moss and Tatjana Patiz. This is not the primary interest of the artist. In the book Nudi, the models are simply called by their first name, and they are photographed entirely without requisites or clothing. Thus Roversi maintains the anonymity of the displayed and shows us delicate, in their purity almost heaven-like creatures and not the stars of the fashion scene.

Roversi's photographs are full of poetry and reflect, in all its facets, the beauty of the female body. The photographs show the artist's ability not to lapse into superficial aestheticism but to always bestow upon his pictures a subtle aura of the enigmatic and mysterious. Particularly his technique of lightpainting, for which he illuminates the model which is standing in the dark and thus in a way traces it, makes Roversi a traveler between the worlds of photography and painting in the true tradition of the pioneers of artistic photography - the pictorialists. Around the year 1900 artists such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen began to give photography a pictorial character by using soft-focus, special printing techniques, and complex light installations.

Paolo Roversi's works have been published in various monographs, among them the lavishly arranged books Nudi (edition Stromboli, Paris: 1999), Libretto (Steidl, Göttingen:2000), and Studio (Steidl, Göttingen and edition Stromboli, Paris:2002). Paolo Roversi was the photographer for campaigns such as Cerruti, Comme des Garçons, Christian Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Valentino, as well as editorials for magazines such as Arena, Harper's Bazaar, I-D, Interview, Marie-Claire, The New York Times Magazine, Italian and British Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue, and W.
"

CAMERA WORK Gallery

Re-Identidades Exposição/ Instalação de Jorge Pereira

Re-Identidades
Exposição/ Instalação de Jorge Pereira

De 1 a 29 de Junho de 2009

na Galeria Municipal de Aljezur

Inauguração dia 1 de Junho às 16h30


Re-Identidades surge com a necessidade de devolver vida a objectos recolhidos ao longo de anos, de modo quase compulsivo. A criação de personagens aparece dada a existência de objectos, símbolos de diversas actividades da sociedade, que já entraram em desuso ou sofreram grandes alterações.

Este trabalho assume assim, um cariz antropológico, não querendo fazer um retrato fiel de uma actividade, mas sim, através da organização e disposição destes objectos simbólicos, criar uma atmosfera nostálgica e sensibilizar o observador para a facilidade com que nos dias de hoje nos descartamos de objectos e fotografias que fazem a nossa história individual e familiar, anulando assim, a nossa memória colectiva.

JORGE PEREIRA nasceu em Moçambique, em 1974. Vive e trabalha em Lagos.
Em 1998, concluiu o Curso Superior de Escultura na ARCA, em Coimbra. Desde então tem desenvolvido trabalhos cénicos para diversos grupos de Teatro e Dança. Colabora desde 2003 com a Amálgama Companhia de Dança como designer e videasta. Paralelamente, executa trabalhos de desenho técnico de arqueologia. É artista residente do LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas desde 2006 e pertence à Direcção desta Associação.

2009

- “Primavera – Open House & Art Exibicion” – Exposição colectiva de 6 artistas plásticos, no Porto de Mós, Lagos.

- “AlacULTUR” – Exposição colectiva dos artistas residentes no LAC, inserido nos Encontros Alcultur 2009, em Lagos.

– “LAC Dia Aberto” - Exposição anual dos artistas residentes no LAC.

2008

- Instalação “Maria Benta – Espólio de uma Fadista”, inserida no Festival de Fado de Lagos, no Centro Cultural de Lagos.

- “Allmnésia”, instalação de áudio visual, em co-criação com Tiago Cutileiro, inserido no evento Mundos Locais, Allgarve, no Centro Cultural de Lagos.

- Exposição individual de arte urbana no Bar Galo, Lagos, “No Thanks”.

- Exposição individual de pintura no Bar Galo, Lagos, “Coca-coca”.

– LAC Dia Aberto - Exposição anual dos artistas residentes no LAC.

2007

- Como ilustrador, lança o seu primeiro livro para a infância “Malaquias”, texto de Cristina Taquelim.

- II Bienal de Porto Santo, sob o tema Identidades, na Casa Museu Cristóvão Colombo.

- MALA – Mostra de Artistas de Lagos, Museu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho, Lagos.

- Exposição colectiva “Artistas do Barlavento Algarvio”, no Espaço +, Aljezur.

– LAC Dia Aberto - Exposição anual dos artistas residentes no LAC.

2005

– Exposição de fotografia AL: 100 imagens de portas em 10 localidades do Norte Alentejano.

Walker Evans - Fotografia

Walker Evans
Alabama Tenant Farmer, 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
18 x 20.7 cm
Private collection
© Walker Evans Archive,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Walker Evans
West Virginia Living Room, 1935
Gelatin silver print. Printed c. 1940
19.3 x 24.2 cm
Private collection
© Walker Evans Archive,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Walker Evans
[Subway Passengers, New York], 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print
11.8 x 16.6 cm
Private collection
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art


Walker Evans

30 May - 23 August 2009

FOTOMUSEUM WINTERTHUR
Grüzenstrasse 44+45 , CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Tel: +41 52 234 10 60
Fax: +41 52 233 60 97
fotomuseum@fotomuseum.ch
www.fotomuseum.ch
Tues-Sun 11 am to 6 pm, Wed 11 am to 8 pm

With this major retrospective of the work of Walker Evans (1903-1975) Fotomuseum Winterthur pays homage to one of the twentieth century's most influential photographers. His insightful and detailed portrayals of American life, especially his images of rural poverty during the Great Depression, made photographic history and went on to influence countless photographers.

Walker Evans was extraordinarily innovative in his approach, capturing the very essence of the "American way of life". The 130 works in this retrospective exhibition, most of them from a private collection in San Francisco, represent every phase of his career: his early street photographs of the 1920s, his poignant documentation of 1930s America and pre-revolutionary Cuba, his landscapes and architectural photography, his subway portraits, storefronts, signage, and more besides.

The modernity of Walker Evans' photography lies primarily in the fact that, as early as the 1920s-1930s, he liberated the medium from all the prevailing conventions of art and style, and took a direct and candid approach to reality. Whatever he captured with his camera was henceforth to be seen as a photographed subject and not as the subject of photography. His work addressed several crucial aspects of photography: the arbitrariness of chance as a creative principle; a critical awareness of photography as a mass medium; the serial nature of the photographic process; the ambiguity of photography between documentation and art; photographic anonymity as emancipation from subjective aesthetics. These innovative approaches to the understanding and use of photography were seminal to the art of the 1960s and 70s (Pop Art, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Lewis Baltz).

The exhibition has been organized by Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid. The curator is Jeff L. Rosenheim (curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), in collaboration with Carlos Gollonet. The curator is Urs Stahel, Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur.

O Naturalismo enquanto projecto - Luis Nobre

Escalas, Perspectivas e Superfícies.
O Naturalismo enquanto projecto
Luis Nobre
Inauguração: Quinta-feira 28 Maio, 21h30m
Opening: Thursday 28 May, 9.30pm
29.05 - 30.08.2009
Casa Museu Dr.Anastácio Gonçalves
Av.5 Outubro,6
1050-055 Lisboa
Tel. +351 213540823

CLOSE - KAHMANN GALLERY - Amsterdam

Barry Kornbluh (USA 1952)

Maura Sullivan (USA 1973)

Tessa Posthuma de Boer (The Netherlands 1968)

Tiane Doan Na Champassak (France 1973)



CLOSE

Maura Sullivan | Barry Kornbluh |
Tiane Doan na Champassak | Tessa Posthuma de Boer

5 June - 20 August 2009


KAHMANN Gallery former HUP Gallery
Tesselschadestraat 15, 1054 ET Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0)20 5158589
info@kahmanngallery.com
www.kahmanngallery.com
Opening hours: Tues, Thu, Fri 10-17 + Every first Sunday of the month + by appt.

In the group show 'CLOSE' Kahmann Gallery presents work of four pronounced and distinctive photographers. The common denominator is a kind of intimacy, all photographers stay close to themselves. They leave little space between elements or parts. All in their own remarkable way.

Maura Sullivan (USA 1973) is intrigued by what is taking place behind the scenes, underneath the skin. Her images are like the torn out pages of a made up book. Sullivan explores the feelings we all share about fear, love and a time lost. Her cinematic work makes us curious. There is an intriguing tension in all of her work.

The subjects portrayed by Barry Kornbluh (USA 1952) can always be found in his immediate vicinity. His deep black and coarse grain puts the focus of his work to the content, the feeling. Technique is subordinate, emotion is what his work is about. His style is marked by both intimacy and mystery. Kornbluh is insprired by Japanese photographers like Daido Moriyama.

Tiane Doan Na Champassak (France 1973) explores many aspects of human creativity. Central in his work is the complex human being. Tiane's fascination for real craftmanship brings him to an endless search for exceptional, nearly antique photo paper. This paper is of such great value that it's a museum piece on its own. In this exhibition we will therefore show a selection of work on both the old and new paper.

According to Tessa Posthuma de Boer (The Netherlands 1968) life contains unmistakably a mixture of desire, distress and human imperfection. Her poetic work is poised on the borderline between portraiture, performance photography and art. Her work is obviously staged but never theatrical. The timeless images portray moments that never end. With tense melancholy yet sometimes quite humorous at the same time.

There is a special limited edition available from every photographer for a very interesting price, varying from €350,- until € 500,-

Michel Comte Retrospective

Helena Christensen #2, Italian Vogue 1993
Silver Gelatin Print
50x50 cm
Edition of 20
Jeremy Irons Interview, 1990
Silver Gelatin Print
50x50 cm
Edition of 20
Catherine Deneuve Pomellato, 1996
Silver Gelatin Print
50x50 cm
Edition of 20
Yves Saint Laurent W Magazine, 1992
Silver Gelatin Print
50x50 cm
Edition of 20


Michel Comte Retrospective

29th May - 1st August 2009

Opening reception: Thursday 28th May 2009, 7pm


75b, ave. Louise - 1050 Brussels
(Place Wiltcher's - Conrad Hotel)
Tel.: +32(0)2 3740704
Fax +32(0)2 3740201
Email: contact@younggalleryphoto.com
Website: www.younggalleryphoto.com
Hours: 11 am - 6:30 pm Tuesday to Saturday

Michel Comte, born in 1954 in Zürich and a great photographer, easily fits in the category of photography greats such as Peter Lindbergh and Mario Testino.

He was given his first advertising assignment in 1979. Since then he has been one of the most requested photographers in the industry and has worked on the campaigns of prestigious brands such as Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Nike, Lancôme and Revlon.

Today he continues to be one of the most influential fashion photographers worldwide. He has also portrayed several prominent figures for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair.

The most beautiful women have no qualms about revealing themselves in front of his camera, while the same also applies to film stars, top models and top athletes. Last year, an admirer paid 91,000 euros at Christie's for a photo of Carla Bruni posing nude.

Comte has made photos for the International Red Cross Committee and has also founded the Fondation de l'Eau Michel Comte, which aims to provide access to potable water in countries where this is an extremely rare commodity.

Nude Visions





150 Years Body Images in Photography


Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie
27 May - 13 September 2009


Opening:
Tuesday 26 May 2009 7 pm

Münchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie
St.-Jakobs-Platz 1 . 80331 Munich
Tel: +49 (0)89 233 22370
fotomuseum.stadtmuseum@muenchen.de
www.stadtmuseum-online.de
Opening hours: Tues-Sun 10am-6pm

Artists of the exhibition:
Dieter Appelt | Franz Xaver Bartl | Auguste Belloc | Ferenc Berko | Ruth Bernhard | Johann Josef Blitz | Guy Bourdin | Josef Breitenbach | Warwick Brookes | Francis Bruguière | Wynn Bullock | Jimmy Caruso | Walter Chappell | Lucien Clergue | Frantisek Drtikol | Frank Eugene | Harun Farocki | Franz Fiedler | Ulrike Frömel | Vincenzo Galdi | Charles Gatewood | Heinz Gebhardt | André Gelpke | Joachim Giesel | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Jaap De Graaf | Franz Grainer | Robert Häusser | Heinz Hajek-Halke | Franz Hanfstaengl | Samuel Haskins | Hermann Heid | Fritz Henle | Theodor Her | Marta Hoepffner | Emil Otto Hoppé | Karl Hubbuch | Louis Igout | Enno Kapitza | André Kertész | Max Koch & Otto Rieth | Herlinde Koelbl | Jörg Koopmann | Rudolf Koppitz | Germaine Krull | Helmut Lederer | Rudolf Lehnert & Ernst Landrock | Cheyco Leidmann | Marianne Leissl | Herbert List | Carl Locht | Urs Lüthi | Atelier Manassé | Guido Mangold | Gaudenzio Marconi | Will McBride | Gérald Minkoff | Pierre Molinier | Stefan Moses | Jan Mutsu | Eadweard Muybridge | Masaya Nakamura | Serge Nazarieff | Floris M. Neusüss | Helmut Newton | Dennis Oppenheim | Guglielmo Plüschow | Wilhelm Pranger | Norbert Przybilla | Elfriede Reichelt | Esaki Reiji | Oscar Gustave Reijlander | Gerhard Riebicke | Roberto Rive | Helmut Röttgen | Franz Roh | Thomas Ruff | T.W. Salomon | Napoleon Sarony | Jan Saudek | Walter Schels | Pascal Sébah & Policarpe Joaillier | Tazio Secchiaroli | Hanna Seewald | Hermann Stamm | Otto Steinert | Bert Stern | Alfred Stieglitz & Clarence H. White | Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz | Sasha Stone | Frank Stürmer | Karin Székessy | Karel Teige | Juergen Teller | Jerry Uelsmann | E. Uhlenhut | Timm Ulrichs | Vladimir Vinski | Gerhard Vormwald | Wallis Weir | Edward Weston | Wicksteed & Palmer | Fritz Witzel | Wols | Willy Zielke

in http://www.stadtmuseum-online.de/aktuell/vision.html

Exposição de fotografia do António Rodrigues


Exposição de fotografia do António Rodrigues
Café Galeria Porta da Cidade nas Caldas da Rainha.
Patente de 15 de Maio a 30 de Junho de 2009.

Depois da exposição da sua Pintura na Mostra de Arte Sacra em Gaeiras, onde deslumbrou todos os que a viram, agora esta exposição da sua Arte na Fotografia que, pela amostra junta, certamente não vai deixar, mais uma vez, ninguém indiferente.
A não perder mesmo!!!!