Koen Hauser Work from Catharsis. “For six weeks the exhibition space of the Scheltema complexwas transformed into a filmstudio for a project that connects art, psychology, documentary, cinema and music. During this working period I interviewed people on situations or conditions that makes them feel abnormal and different from others, recording it on video. These conversations […]
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Johan Rosenmunthe
Friday, 1 July 2011
Johan Rosenmunthe Work from Transmutations. “What is a transmutation? It’s described as a sudden change from one generation to the next, that is large in comparison with the usual variation of an organism. The theory on the transmutation of species was proposed by Jean-Babtiste Lamarck in 1809. He believed that an innate life force, which […]
Natasha Caruana
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Natasha Caruana Work from The Married Man. “Natasha Caruana’s series of photographs, ‘Married Man’ documents occasions when the artist arranged ‘dates’ through dating websites designed for married men to conduct affairs. She photographed each man, concealing their identity, but also recorded them secretly using a digital recorder hidden in a red purse seen in several […]
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin Work from People in Trouble. “People in trouble laughing pushed to the ground. Soldiers leaning, pointing, reaching. Woman sweeping. Balloons escaping. Coffin descending. Boys standing. Grieving. Chair balancing. Children smoking. Embracing. Creatures barking. Cars burning. Helicopters hovering. Faces. Human figures. Shapes. Birds. Structures left standing and falling… The Belfast Exposed […]
John Divola
Friday, 24 June 2011
John Divola Work from the exhibition Trees for the Forest. ““The works on view span the last four decades, and provide an expansive yet necessarily incomplete picture of John Divola’s practice – a canny yet understated blend of documentary photography, conceptual art, performance and installation. The collection of works begins in 1971 with Divola’s images of women […]
Ricardo Cases
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Ricardo Cases Work from Paloma Al Aire. You can buy the book here. “Ricardo Cases’ third photobook deals with an unusual subject: the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons that chase her trying to get […]
Laurie Kang
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Laurie Kang Work from her oeuvre. “My practice is based in film photography, collage, sculpture and installation. I employ the photographic image’s ability to capture an image and present it as an apparently true document in time and history. Using both created and found images and objects, I merge fact with fiction, distorting and challenging […]
Jojo Luzhou Li
Monday, 6 June 2011
Jojo Luzhou Li Work from her oeuvre. “My sculpture is sometimes really a photo and my photo is actually a painting. By this I mean that my work investigates the realm between image and object, confusing and hopefully destabilizing the lines between photographic image, painterly gesture, and three-dimensional space and the various kinds of information […]
Eric Cahan
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Eric Cahan Work from Sky Series “A native New Yorker and devotee of contemporary art, Eric Cahan’s influences include Mark Rothko, James Turrell, and the Light and Space movement, a brand of minimalism that originated in Southern California in the 1960s and focused on perceptual phenomena such as light, space, volume and scale. When he […]
Wyne Veen
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Wyne Veen Work from his oeuvre. “My central theme is uselessness. I feel that life is ridiculous. The products and arrangements I show are a reflection of investments of time and effort by men. They show the development of our society just like the old 17th century famous Dutch still lives did. But I don’t see this […]