Barry Stone Work from I Met a Unicorn. “To say that unicorns have an existence in heraldry, or in literature, or in imagination, is a most pitiful and paltry evasion. What exists in heraldry is not an animal, made of flesh and blood, moving and breathing of its own initiative. What exists is a picture, […]
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Serry Park
Monday, 13 September 2010
Serry Park Work from XO. “I cannot open the window, nor watch the clock in my room. The only thing I can do now is to see the daylight from the windows, touch [the] fabric and fall asleep. I and the room, we both could take a rest. Only light and time flow in this […]
Henry Wessel
Saturday, 11 September 2010
Henry Wessel Work from his oeuvre. Check out his new book with Steidl. “In Wessel’s images the idiosyncrasies and anomalies of Southern California and the American West are chronicled with a wry objectivity. Insightful and often ironic, these photographs demonstrate that photography can surpass its documentary role to embrace speculation and suggest narrative. Ultimately the […]
Alain Delorme
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Alain Delorme Work from Totems. “the images were captured during two art residencies (supported by ailing foundation) de lorme participated in shanghai throughout 2009 and 2010. fascinated by migrants’ loads, he has photographed piles of stacked ‘made in china’ products which form unusual sculptures, symbols of a form of fetishization of the objects themselves. the […]
Luis Gispert
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Luis Gispert Work from his oeuvre. Jacob Hashimoto: This last January, you opened an enormous two-part exhibition at Zach Feuer and Mary Boone Gallery that represented well over two years of sculptures and images and was crowned with a hugely ambitious short film, Smother. Having had the opportunity to watch you labor over this diverse […]
Sophie Barbasch
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Sophie Barbasch Work from her oeuvre. “In her statement for this body of work, Barbasch wrote: I started this project to understand how three people could share the same emotional narratives and never see or speak to each other. Coming to terms with our separation has meant normalizing an inexplicable void… I hope to show […]
Tokihiro Sato
Friday, 3 September 2010
Tokihiro Sato Work from Trees and his oeuvre. There is a lecture this afternoon by Sato @ Indiana University in Bloomington, IN in conjunction with The Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. Trees is currently showing at Haines Gallery in San Francisco. “Tokihiro Sato’s images of the stately trunks of Japanese beech trees amid the undergrowth […]
Daniel Everett
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Daniel Everett Work from his oeuvre. “Daniel Everett embodies the current technological zeitgeist shared by post dot-com kids, the kids of the dot-com kids, and the relationship we have to our interconnectivity (the internet). His work is jaded, earnest, and self mocking at the same time.” – Beautiful/Decay
Petra Petileta
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Petra Petileta Work from Unit-Houses “Once I got commissioned by Developer company in Prague. I got an assignment to retouch all the “disturbing” social aspects of their houses built for a lower social class in Slovakia. Photographs were retouched till the utopian view (social “fairy – tails”), even the surroundings or “natural” urban environment was […]
Mel Bochner
Friday, 6 August 2010
Mel Bochner Works from Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography) and a few extras. “HANS ULRICH OBRIST: And transgenerational too. Before we were talking about misunderstandings, (and I was curious about this in relation to science and engineering) there can sometimes be productive misunderstandings, and this was just at the moment that you made the amazing […]