Lucy Hughes. Snapshot Backs

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© Lucy Hughes
Snapshot Back I, 2010, Inkjet print, 1100 x 1100 mm, Edition of 5
Courtesy {Suite} Gallery

Lucy Hughes | Snapshot Backs
November 20 – December 12 2011
{Suite} Gallery
Level 2, 147 Cuba Street / 108 Oriental Parade, 6011 Wellington +64 49767663
info@suite.co.nz http://www.suite.co.nz
Opening hours: Wed-Fri 11 am - 5 pm and Sat 11 am - 4 pm




















© Lucy Hughes
Snapshot Back IV, 2010, Inkjet print, 1530 x 1100 mm, Edition of 5
Courtesy {Suite} Gallery

Lucy Hughes | Snapshot Backs
{Suite} Gallery is pleased to present works from Lucy Hughes’ latest series, which explores the family archive and its fundamental purpose to capture and stop the passing of time.
Photographic family archives leave a trace of our existence behind for future generations. By imprinting our three-dimensional world onto the surface of a two-dimensional object, there is an assumption that this object exists as a protection against the passing of time.
An archive’s fundamental purpose is to capture and stop a passing moment. Yet it is contradicted and diluted by a new purpose once that moment is physically transformed into a photographic object. Allowing the viewer only access to the back of the photo suggests a shift of emphasis. The bind to an outside referent is loosened, shifting the photograph into the realm of abstraction.
Lucy Hughes works and lives in Wellington, New Zealand and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.



















© Lucy Hughes
Snapshot Back III, 2010, Inkjet print, 1530 x 1100 mm, Edition of 5
Courtesy {Suite} Gallery
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François Berthoud

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François Berthoud © François Berthoud

François Berthoud
Until December 3, 2011
Galerie Walter Keller, Oberdorfstr. 2, CH-8001 Zurich / Switzerland
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François Berthoud © François Berthoud

After the success of his first Museum exhibition ever, Gallery Walter Keller in Zurich/Switzerland is proud to show the first gallery exhibition of François Berthoud in Zurich, where he lives and works. The Museum of Design Zurich announced Berthoud’s exhibition this summer with the following words: „Swiss artist François Berthoud is among the outstanding fashion illustrators of the present day.
Born in 1961 and trained at the School of Applied Arts in Lausanne, Berthoud soon developed a distinctive style for the graphic transcription and illustration of contemporary clothing, shoes, handbags, perfumes, and accessories. His expressive, aesthetically appealing linocuts, drip pictures, and computer graphics have accompanied countless fashion campaigns – from Yves Saint Laurent to Bulgari or Sonia Rykiel. In these works the depicted object and Berthoud’s visual interpretation of it complement one another to generate atmospheric total works of art that substantially shape our perception of a featured product and contribute to its marketing success. (...) Particularly fascinating is the use of complementary analog and digital techniques to produce masterly results.“














Publication
François Berthoud Studio, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (Ed.), G/E, Hatje Cantz, CHF 47.00
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Chila Kumari Burman. FRAGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

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Auto Portrait, 2011, 2011, Mixed media on pigment print paper, hand embellished with gems, 117 x 86 cm

Chila Kumari Burman
FRAGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION
19 November – 23 December 2011
at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Opening Reception: Friday, 18 November 2011, 6:30-8:30pm
Blindspot Gallery
24-26A, Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong Tel.: +852 2517 6238
info@blindspotgallery.com, www.blindspotgallery.com

“Fragments of My Imagination” is Chila Kumari Burman’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong featuring her latest photographic collages and print artworks on paper and canvas that are uniquely embellished with gems, rhinestones and crystals.













Wonderland, 2011, 2011, Mixed media on pigment print paper, hand embellished with gems and bindis, 137 x 97 cm

One of the few British Indian artists to exhibit internationally, Burman’s story is no ordinary one. Born to Punjabi immigrants who came to Britain to earn a decent living, Burman grew up in the back streets of Bootle in Liverpool. Although her father was a bespoke tailor, he could not find work and became an ice cream man to support his family. Chief influences in Burman’s art remain her family and Indian roots. One often finds images of ice cream, cornets, and lolly ices scattered throughout her beautiful works that seamlessly blend references to popular culture with family photos, Bollywood stars and Hindu gods.


















Dad in Front of His Van, 2011,
2011, Mixed media on pigment print paper, hand embellished with gems, 43 x 54 cm

Educated at the famous Slade School of Art, Burman has worked experimentally across print, paint, sculpture, photography and mixed media since the mid 1980’s. Drawing on fine and pop art imagery, she explores Asian femininity, her personal family history, and articulates a critical position within contemporary post-colonial consumption saturated Britain.


















Perfect Fit, 2011, 2011,
Mixed media on pigment print paper, hand embellished with gems, 89 x 96 cm

In recent works such as Fortune and Perfect Fit, Burman explores issues of gender and race through the aesthetics of collecting. Playing with the formal properties of dress accessories, lingerie, bindis, bras, flowers, hair-pieces and jewelry, she works with repetition, pattern and allusions to the hyper-feminine, the sexual and the everyday. Encompassing the idea of Arte Povera and recycled materials, Burman cleverly transforms these 'worthless' materials that many consider cheap kitsch into a body of art worthy of serious contemplation.

About Chila Kumari Burman
Burman received her professional Fine Art and Graphic Design training at Leeds Polytechnic and later pursued her Master of Fine Art (Printmaking) at Slade School of Fine Art in London. Burman’s works are globally exhibited at major galleries and museums and comprise important public collections in the UK and abroad including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Birmingham Museum, The British Council in London, Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom, as well as the Devi Foundation in New Delhi. Burman currently lives and works in London.

About Blindspot Gallery
Blindspot Gallery is set up to bring contemporary photography, an art form that has entered the blind spot of the Hong Kong art market, to a higher degree of visibility. We feature both established and emerging photographers and artists, mainly from the region but not limited to.
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BRASSAÏ – DUBUFFET

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BRASSAÏ
Graffiti de la Série IX, Images primitives 1933 - 1956
Gelatin silver print 39,5 x 29 cm | 15 ½ x 11 ½ in
Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
























JEAN DUBUFFET
Personnage 1944
Indian ink on paper 26 x 21 cm | 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in
Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne

BRASSAÏ – DUBUFFET
OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 10, 2011
The show will be accompanied by a catalogue
Drususgasse 1-5, 50667 Cologne - Germany
+49 (0)221 257 10 12 galerie.greve@t-online.de
www.galerie-karsten-greve.com
The Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to pay homage to the artists Brassaï and Jean Dubuffet in the context of an exhibition that reveals a reflection on a theme that connects them in a rather astonishing way - "Graffiti". Brassaï and Dubuffet approach the city as though it were a large prehistoric cave, as spectators of a wild and anarchic society stripped of any kind of aestheticism.
Equipped with his camera, Brassaï (1899 - 1984) captured ordinary traces of the inhabitants of Paris' streets beginning in the 1930's, thus discovering a hidden and unsuspected, though omnipresent expression. Dubuffet (1901-1985) incorporated the materiality and the texture of daily life on his canvasses, on paper and in lithography. In his opinion, the materiality does not show differences between human beings and their urban lifestyle. Human creatures are depicted, preferably in front of walls, detached from the space, stuck vertically "like posters, neither more nor less alive than the graffiti they resemble so much, they could be mistaken for it" (Noël Arnaud, 1961).
Two major post war artists are herein being featured: Brassaï, a less known member, though an important one, of the Surrealist movement, and Dubuffet, who was at the origins of Art Brut. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue with texts by Brassaϊ himself and Sophie Webel, Fondation Dubuffet, in English, French and German.
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Roger Ballen. ANIMAL ABSTRACTION

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© Roger Ballen, Five Hands

Roger Ballen ANIMAL ABSTRACTION
opening Saturday, November 12 from 5 - 7 pm in the presence of the artist.
exhibition runs from 29 October - 12 December 2011
Galerie Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam, Weteringschans 83 . 1017 RZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands, T: +31 20 4235423, info@reflexamsterdam.com
www.reflexamsterdam.com
Edition/Artists' Books
3 - 6 November 2011, New York City, www.eabfair.com


















© Roger Ballen, Slain

R O G E R B A L L E N
ANIMAL ABSTRACTION
Roger Ballen is regarded as one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. He has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic. Ballen’s work has been exhibited across the globe, and is widely collected by the world’s important art institutions, from Moma in New York, to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
The Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, presents a rare opportunity to view a selection of Ballen’s work from over the past 20 years. The exhibition will showcase iconic images from his acclaimed books, Shadow Chamber, Outland, and Boarding House, as well as important photographs that have never been shown before. In their rich complexity and visual daring, the 25 works on display challenge the viewer’s perception of photography and its relation to art - and to life.
These multi-layered photographs illuminate Ballen’s fascination with the animal kingdom and our complicated relationship to animals and birds. He invites us to reconsider that dynamic:
A bird spreading its wings mirrors the concertina of an accordion. A snake slithers across a drawing of a boy whose eyes peer out of a tiger skin stretched across his face. A siamese crouches on a chaise-longue next to a woman wearing a cat mask. Are these playful scenes, or is there a note of menace? Who is in control – us or them?
“I feel an affinity with animals,” Ballen says. “There is something mysterious and beautiful about them that is hard to put your finger on. They don’t give their secrets away.”
Consistently in these works, Ballen insists on obscuring human identity. All we are given are masked figures, or disembodied hands and feet. It is unsettling, ambiguous. The addition of drawing and collage present yet more layers for us to decipher.
Each image invites careful study, providing multiple readings, multiple meanings. Ballen leaves it to the viewer to make his mind up.
“I want, consciously, or unconsciously, to get to the meaning of life.”
Galerie Alex Daniels cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, November 12th between 5 and 7 pm in the presence of the artist.
On the occasion of the exhibition Reflex Editions has published the book Roger Ballen - Animal Abstraction, a collection of new images as well as other important photographs never shown before. Roger Ballen will be signing copies of the book at the opening. A portfolio in a limited edition with an original print matching the show will be presented at the opening.
Edition/Artists' Books
EAB 2011 booth 32, 2nd floor, 3 - 6 November 2011 New York City
548 West 22nd Street, www.eabfair.com


















© Roger Ballen, Complex Ambuigity
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Sarah Moon | à propos ...

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© Sarah Moon, Kassia Pysiak 1998
60 x 50 cm, Auflage 20, getonter silbergelatine Print

Sarah Moon | à propos ...
November 15, 2011 – February 15, 2012
Bergstr. 11, 20095 Hamburg +49 (0)40 74320520
info@persiehl-heine.de, http://www.persiehl-heine.de















© Sarah Moon
le lendemaine matin 2010, 50 x 60 cm, Auflage 20, getonter silbergelatine Print

à propos... SARAH MOON
Since the seventies, the elegant and memorable photographs of Paris-based artist Sarah Moon (*1941, France) are an inherent part of the international fashion world. Scarcely anybody will be able to elude the particular magic of her works, like those for Dior, Chanel, or Cacharel. Galerie Persiehl & Heine presents an eminent selection of Sarah Moons unique photographs, whose distinctive and intimate pictorial language deploys a powerful poetical vibrancy.

Sarah Moon is an autodidact: She acquired her photographic mastery when she worked as a model after finishing art school. In 1968, she changed from working in front of the camera to working behind it, for good, and instantly succeeded with her unique style: In the same year, she participated in a group show on vanguard fashion photography in Delpire gallery in Paris. With this exhibition, Moons career was launched; soon, her works would be present in all leading fashion magazines, such as „Marie-Claire“, „Elle“, or „Vogue“. Today, Sarah Moon is one of the best-known fashion photographers. However, her poetical, sometimes dream-like imagery is also present in motives she captures beyond the field of fashion, and, since the nineties, in her movies.


















© Sarah Moon
Sans titre 1989, 60 x 50 cm, Auflage 20, getonter silbergelatine Print

There is a borderland between fiction and truth which seems to be a permanent feature of Sarah Moons works. Poetic as they may be, they always long to reveal a particular form of reality: the fugitiveness of the moment, the boundary between growth and decay, the magic of a single second. „Photography is the soul of all moments, the soul of the very moment you just saw going by“, Sarah Moon explains, and invites the beholder to witness the magic of these moments in her atmospheric works. By using the camera, she detaches every motive from its historical anchor: Being decoupled from the present, the pictures often appear strangely antique – or even timeless, like visual anachronisms. At the same time, they are highly intimate, giving the viewer the feeling of peeking through a keyhole.
The artist’s fondness for mystification can be witnessed through the occasionally blurred scenery, which gives the motives a fey or even ghostly aura. Something similar can be observed in her colour photographs, as well: Being sceptical towards the use of colour, Sarah Moon only applies it as means of alienation and exaggeration. When the dazzling chromaticity becomes dark, however, the works’ luscious temper becomes slightly melancholic. Occasionally interspersed spots and blurs cause the impression of nostalgic detachment from the world. Bearing this in mind, it may not come as a surprise that it is Lewis Carroll’s „Alice in Wonderland“, Samuel Beckett, and the authors of classical fairytales that are Sarah Moon’s most frequently mentioned inspirational sources.
Paulina Szczesniak

The new edition of Sarah Moons book 12345 is available at the gallery again.

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Martin Klimas. Foulard

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courtesy COSAR HMT
Martin Klimas | Foulard
November 4th to December 16th 2011
c/o Haus Maria Theresia Flurstr. 57, 40235 Düsseldorf
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© Martin Klimas
courtesy COSAR HMT

MARTIN KLIMAS | FOULARD
High-quality silk scarves from establishments like Dior, YSL, Hermes or Louis Vuitton provide the thematic background for the new photo series ‘Foulard’ by Martin Klimas.
Their nature oddly ambivalent between two- and three-dimensionality, these scarves are themselves subject to an identity crisis situated between object and picture. They are strange hybrids that are perceived as images and serve as objects.
It is in fact the pictorial character of these fashion accessories that specifically interests Martin Klimas in his current works. The silk scarves on display here not only hold a mirror up to the last 50 years of fashion—Klimas deploys scarves from the 1960s up to the present day—in their own way they also stylistically reflect the art of the time. As fashion, they are more Zeitgeist than avant-garde, do not shape style so much as quote artistic trends such as Abstract Expressionism, Op and Pop Art and make us think of artists like Rothko, Vasarely or Lichtenstein.
This reference is what Martin Klimas highlights in his current works, giving yester year ’s motifs back their autonomous character. To the viewer, Klimas’ photos look like large-scale paintings caught between figuration and abstraction.
Expressively luminous color spaces encounter minimalist geometric patterns that completely take over the picture plane; each fall of the folds becomes an orchestrating gesture modulated by the reflection of the light on the metallically shimmering silk. In association with the patterns, complex perspectival constructions result, opening up intriguing pictorial expanses whose visual power is absolutely bewitching. Martin Klimas’ photographic series ‘Foulard’ testifies, on the one hand, to half a century of fashion history, while at the same time, via the most advanced camera technique, lends the scarves a visual presence they never before enjoyed.

















courtesy COSAR HMT
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εκθεση πειραματικης φωτογραφιας. Λαρισα Νοεμβρης 2011

Περιοδικο http://www.fmag.gr
Με μεγάλη επιτυχία πραγματοποιήθηκαν την Πέμπτη 3 Νοεμβρίου 2011 τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης φωτογραφίας με τίτλο “Πειραματική φωτογραφία” που φιλοξενείται στον εκθεσιακό χώρο της Φωτογραφικής Λέσχης Λάρισας....
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φωτογραφιες: Ανδρεας Κατσακος