NEW CAIRO
Happy to feature this introduction by Manuel Alvarez Diestro on his series about the new...
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MANUAL ALVAREZ DIESTRO
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Beatriz S. González Jiménez
Beatriz S. González Jiménez
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JOE RUDKO «Not Nature is a study into the displacement of the...
JOE RUDKO
«Not Nature is a study into the displacement of the landscape through human presence and intervention. In this ongoing series I use photography as an anthropological tool to observe everyday visual juxtapositions that reveal a human relationship with the natural world. The project was developed over a summer spent in Anacortes, Washington at the Shannon Point Marine Center. I was living in at the center with 11 scientists completing various experiments and research. The surrounding area of Anacortes is filled with hiking areas, parks, and a ferry which gives access to several of the San Juan Islands. I found that many of the local neighborhoods were ideal places to observe the relationship between the residents and their environment. Lawn ornamentation and murals began looking like tributes or memorials to the surrounding land and wildlife which is slowly being displaced by new homes and developments. I focused my photographs on natural environments with evidence of human presence, and alternatively, human environments with a resemblance to natural forms. By centrally framing my shots, I am singling out these small moments of interaction. These images reflect a continued interest in the sociological understanding of landscape and representation».
© All copyright Joe Rudko
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Fabrizio Bellomo Installation @ Art Around Milano Carroponte,...
Fabrizio Bellomo
Installation @ Art Around Milano
Carroponte, Milan
5.5.2012 - 15.10.2012
In the vast complex of Industrial Archaeological Park ’ex-Breda’, are now buildings with different functions, which have experienced different processes of regeneration. In a context that is so divided, Fabrizio Bellomo realizes an intervention capable of activating very concise and immediate visual relations, with space and time.
The artist found in a factory in Bari, closed in the mid nineties and still in a state of neglect, a metal plate, sort of image / text, bearing the words’ ”Take care of the machine on which you work, it is your bread!”. The artwork consists of the exact replica of the plaque, which is printed in a giant size and installed in different industrial locations of Carroponte in Milan.
The mere taking of an image from one context and placing it in another, seemingly similar, automatically triggers two opposing processes. On the one hand highlights and “consolidates” the industrial memory of the area, amplifying its role as a monument. On the other hand, it introduces an alienating dimension, putting us in front the critical of the ongoing transformation: from industrial to cultural production, from the consumption to information society.
© All copyright Fabrizio Bellomo
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Shortcut of the Day: Simone Mizzotti
Shortcut of the Day: Simone Mizzotti
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Géraldine Lay‘Les failles ordinaires’ Between 2005...
Géraldine Lay
‘Les failles ordinaires’
Between 2005 and 2010, I regularly visited various countries in Northern Europe: Finland, and Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Russia. I had the feeling I was still in my former familiar universe but at the same time also plunged into a strang and extraordinary world.
This series comprise selections of urban portraits, found objects and landscapes. I photographed passers-by as if they were actors in a scene, the locations resembling film sets. My imagination created a kind of narrative fiction, establishing connections between the various cities. The passers-by seem to play an indefinite part, as if each had begun living a fleeting dream. These faces, encountering each other, fade behind the parts which my imagination had assigned to them ; the street became an open space, a place for real human comedy.
© Géraldine Lay
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Benoit Chailleux
Benoit Chailleux
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Christopher Payne, Eddo Hartmann, Robert Garcet/Juul Sadée/Ralph...
Christopher Payne, Eddo Hartmann, Robert Garcet/Juul Sadée/Ralph Noort and Peter Granser
‘This is where my house lives*’
The Dr. Guislain Museum, Gent
16.6.2012 - 16.9.2012
Five variations on living and madness The Dr. Guislain Museum uses its own special architecture as a source of inspiration for the presentation of five variations on the theme ‘living and madness’. How do people treat psychiatric architectural heritage? And how has ‘living and madness’ inspired artists and outsiders?
Christopher Payne
Asylums. Inside the closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Large psychiatric institutions, considered the ultimate answer to the issue of madness in centuries past, now seem strange and lost. In 2009 Christopher Payne (New York, USA) depicted in photographs the large, abandoned psychiatric institutions in the United States, and did so with exceptional precision: in search of signs of habitation, domesticity and intimacy in the abandoned, mastodon architectural style. UR Architects document the similarities with and differences from the situation in our own country.
Peter Granser
J’ai perdu ma tête (‘I lost my head’)
This series of photographs by Peter Granser (Stuttgart, Germany) form a report on his visit to a psychiatric institution in Normandy. The photographer sets out in search of traces of life in the anonymous hospital environment. A hole in a wall, drawings on the floor, an unmade bed: signs of making a place one’s own.
Eddo Hartmann
Hier woont mijn huis (‘This is where my house lives’)
Eddo Hartmann (Amsterdam, Netherlands) allows visitors to bear witness to the remarkable condition in which he found his parent’s home: a disconcerting combination of style and the unraveling of life.
Robert Garcet - Juul Sadée - Ralph Noort
Scale 1:200, a triptych
During the course of his life (1912-2001) Robert Garcet (Eben Ezer) designed a strange tower: the most imposing and famous folly in Belgian architecture. A giant model of this will be exhibited, together with artworks from the tower. Juul Sadée interweaves the concepts and work of Robert Garcet with her own work and that of Ralph Noort into a ‘situation’. In this respect, their joint point of departure is: rencontrer, penser, créer (‘meet, think, create’).
This is where my house lives: outsiders on ‘living and madness’
When it comes to the theme of ‘from house and home to homelessness’, outsider artists are all inspired in their own ways.
*after the words of Wouter De Ryck, cousin of the visual artist Anne-Mie van Kerkhoven.
© Peter Granser
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Guardare | Maddalena - New Lo-Fi Topographies 18.5.2012 -...
Guardare | Maddalena - New Lo-Fi Topographies
18.5.2012 - 26.5.2012
Photographers: Laura Avarino, Giulia Flavia Baczynski, Daniel Campagne, Lisa De Bernardi, Stefano Pola, Nuvola Ravera, Marika Saonari, Alessio Vecchié
Curator: Anna Positano
This exhibition deals with the wider meanings of urban landscape in the form of the collective project. Cultural association DisorderDrama, supported by the Italian Ministry of Youth, organized Guardare | Maddalena artistic programme which involved eight young photographers (18-29). The task was to contribute to the ongoing renewal of Maddalena, a tough neighbourhood in the old town of Genova (Italy).
The complexity of this urban area suggested the necessity of multiple points of view in order to provide a fitting – though partial – interpretation of it. According to this, the work of these young photographers puts in light some important peculiarities and brings into question the perception we have of urban space. From their projects we learn how the shape of a city relates to the use people make of it: via della Maddalena is a small high street which carves a dense urban area and it has no piazzas suitable for people to stop. Then we realize that public and private space often mingle. Just to mention one, there are young women selling their own-private-selves in the middle of the street, by occupying it with their chairs. Probably we do not think of them as women with private lives and stories, beyond their work as prostitutes. Furthermore in via della Maddalena food has a privileged role in ethnic relationships. Not only this neighbourhood hosts international restaurants, but they became the substitute of piazzas: there, people of different nationalities gather and start friendships.
However the neighbourhood feels the effects of the crisis; shops shut down, crime takes over. The exhibition takes place in two of the several empty shops in via della Maddalena high street. This is one of DisorderDrama collective’s political issue: the more shops closed, the more a neighbourhood looks run down. Moreover empty shops are a waste for everyone, especially during recession times. Then it followed the choice of re-using these spaces, similarly to other European experiences – among others the Empty Shops Network in London.
The lo-fi look of the photographs is because Guardare | Maddalena is shot in film with amateur’s cameras. Through this experience DisorderDrama aspired to bring back to life these old cameras which laid unused for years. For some of the photographers this was their first experience with film.
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'CLOSE TO CLOSURE' GROUP EXHIBITION AT PHOTOIRELAND 2012
Back Loft Gallery, Dublin
5.7.2012 - 10.7.2012
Artur Sikora, Fiona O’Donnell, Monika...
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Books on Books #13Ed van der Elsken: Sweet LifeEd van der...
Books on Books #13
Ed van der Elsken: Sweet Life
Ed van der Elsken’s Sweet Life published in 1966 is considered one of the key works in the photobook history of the Netherlands. In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Dutch television, Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen month journey around the world. Six years after their return, Elsken published his travelogue which exhibited a panoply of layout effects – double-page bleeds, crops, printed in deep gravure, and different cover for each of the countries in which it was published. Books on Books #13 presents a study of this legendary Dutch photobook with a contemporary essay by Frits Gierstberg.
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Evan Prince: ‘MuscleBound’
Evan Prince: ‘MuscleBound’
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ANDERS PETERSEN: 'SOHO'
The Soho described by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde as ‘a...
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New Online Issue #3 of Excerpt Magazine!Excerpt Magazine is a...
New Online Issue #3 of Excerpt Magazine!
Excerpt Magazine is a free quarterly online publication about photo-based practice. Excerpt has an emphasis on original content and creating an accessible platform for thoughtful insights and exchanges. By constructing new formats and presenting ideas from multiple contributors, Excerpt aims to be important, relevant and fun.
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ROBERTO SCHENA: 'SP 67'
BY MARTIN PETERSEN
There is no visual instrument as effective as fog. This useless weather condition...
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IRINA YULIEVA: ‘COUNTRY’ 60 percent of Russian...
IRINA YULIEVA: ‘COUNTRY’
60 percent of Russian population resides in small towns, urban settlements and villages. The conditions are very different from those of the big cities - unemployment, lack of education, greater difficulties in social and communal area. All of that makes people to move into bigger cities.
While urbanization process is growing in Russia, most of the population is not involved. It’s especially hard for young people and the younger generation of the country.
Welfare aspirations not always lead to success. Children are full of dreams and illusions about their future. Then they get older, try to get an education and to find a proper job in more populated places. But few succeed, and as they themselves admit, the older they become, the less faith they have in themselves and their forces.
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KAROLINA LEBEK: LANDSCAPES OF POLAND
BY STEVE BISSON
Karolina Lebek. Discovering her portfolio was a pleasant surprise. And now I’m...
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Michele Bressan: ‘Into the ordinary’
Michele Bressan: ‘Into the ordinary’
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KATARZYNA MAJAK: 'WOMEN OF POWER'
‘Women of Power’ is a series 29 portraits of Polish witches, healers, enchanters,...
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VALERIE BELIN: 'YOHOHO'
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London | 30.05.12 - 07.07.12
Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to...
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