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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Schilte & Portielje | | Infinite Spirit | | | | 25 May – 23 August 2019 | | Opening: Saturday 25 May 2019 18:00 | | | | | | | | Kahmann Gallery is proud to present the joined exhibition of two celebrated artist duos: Albarrán Cabrera (ES) and Schilte & Portielje (NL). The title of the exhibition, Infinite Spirit, is a reference to the universality of both the duo's works; while their work seems different on a formal level, both have created an oeuvre that speaks to a deep understanding of what connects us as human beings and plays with our collective memories and imaginations. Both Albarrán Cabrera and Schilte & Portielje have created new works for this exhibition, and all the artists will be present for the opening. Huub Schilte (NL, 1953) and Jacqueline Portielje (NL, 1958) intensively explore the rich possibilities of the computer as an artistic medium and have been doing so since 1994. The computer is both their photography dark room as well as a drawing/painting tool. Their work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the globe and has been included in numerous international private and corporate collections. Schilte Portielje work without a preconceived plan or subject. They both select fragments of images from a digitalized library they have built up over the years. With their selected image fragments, they compose their own dreamworld in black and white, filled with creatures who are endlessly captivating In their work Schilte Portielje constantly explore the boundaries between fantasy and reality, giving it a certain surreal quality. Could the composed black and white figures exist in real life? Are they in pleasure or pain? These questions make Schilte Portielje’s dreamworld one in which you would like to get lost forever. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Mitch Epstein West Side Highway New York City from the series Recreation 1977 © Mitch Epstein courtesy of the artist | | Changing Views | | 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse | | Chapter 2: Icons (21 May – 9 June) | | | | Chapter 1: Germany (3 – 19 May) Chapter 3: Traces of Disorder (11 – 23 June) Chapter 4: Youth Culture (25 June – 7 July) | | | | | | | | In light of the 20-year anniversary of the prestigious Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Foam presents Changing Views – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse, an extensive range of works from one of the most important corporate collections of contemporary photography. The Art Collection Deutsche Börse comprises approximately 1,800 works from over 120 international photographers, including iconic names such as Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Rineke Dijkstra, Dana Lixenberg, younger photographers like Tobias Zielony and Mike Brodie, and hidden gems like Gerd Danigel or Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer. The exhibition period consists of four back-to-back presentations that record positions on some key themes of the collection, with works from different photographers. This concept celebrates the variety and comprehensive quality of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. People and how they relate to their environment is an important feature in the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The second chapter Icons displays the work of some of the most iconic names in photography’s history. Icons from different times and with different cultural backgrounds, that with their bodies of work, have helped generate the images of we in our societies. For example, the photographs of Diane Arbus, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans, David Goldblatt, Dana Lixenberg, Nicholas Nixon and Martin Parr function like a mirror in which we can recognise ourselves. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Searching 1, Film, dark-grey iron frame, efi GS2000 UV spray © Chen Dazhi |
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| | | | | | | Accompanying the exhibition, a book will be published by Hartmann Books. | | Tue 28 May 19:00 29 May – 28 Jul 2019 | | | |
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| | | | | | | World Press Photo of the Year Crying Girl on the Border, USA © John Moore, Getty Images |
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| | | | | | | | | | | © Jörg Brüggemann / Ostkreuz | | | | 18 April – 27 September 2019 | | | | | | | | Jörg Brüggemann, born in 1979, studied under PETER BIALOBRZESKI at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. In 2009 he joined OSTKREUZ, agency of photographers. His first solo exhibition in France shows Berlin in the summer through unique historical places like the Brandenburg Gate, the Tempelhofer Feld and the Humboldtforum. "What I find cool about Berlin is that it’s like an open-air museum of European history of the 20th century. You’ve got the Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the GDR and former West Germany, and they’re all there, next to one another." – Jörg Brüggemann The Goethe-Institut, located in the center of Bordeaux wants to establish an exhibition space for contemporary and modern photography in Bordeaux. Before Jörg Brüggemann's exhibition, photographs by Stefan Moses, Herbert List, Maurice Weiss and Hans Engels, among others, were exhibited. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ROMAN-PHOTO 200 objects, films, photographs and documents | | 25 May – 22 Sep 2019 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Isabelle Graeff: Lizard Point from the series "Exit" | Susan Barnett: Stop Violence from "NOT IN YOUR FACE" | | The European Month of Photography Luxembourg (biennial) | | PORTRAITS, HORS CADRE | | | | until 24 October 2019 | | | | | | | | Ogres, spirits, ghosts or demons. In Japan, myths and folklore have survived since ancient times and into the present. Every fantastic or supernatural creature is attributed to a class called "yōkai". Owing to the geological nature of the archipelago, the Japanese people are particularly exposed to the creative and destructive forces of the natural elements. The population is particularly attuned to Nature’s rhythm and has maintained specific ties to the primary forces. The belief in mythical and irrational phenomena has had its place in the culture of mankind for millennia. Some events elude human understanding; the gap is filled by emotions and imagination. This opens a door to parallel worlds, helping to explain inexplicable things, to overcome life’s trials and tribulations, or to seek supernatural protection for the future. These beings, called upon for protection and support, manifest themselves in changing and masked forms, their character and nature ambiguous. Some apparitions are frightening, others inspire respect, others still are adored and solicited for their mercy and their empathy. Celebrated in the rites and traditions of rural folklore, the Yōkai have become popular during festivals and seasonal ceremonies. The French photographer Charles Fréger has taken an interest in their effigy. To take their portrait, he places them in an original environment drawn from his imagination: a landscape chosen specially to support an expressive posture a… | |
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| | | | | SPECTRAL AFTERLIVES | | Exhibition on the Occasion of the Publication of a Book by Stiftung Niedersachsen | | Tue 28 May 18:30 29 May – 1 Sep 2019 | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | Religion and Faith in Cuba | | | | Sun 26 May 11:00 26 May – 3 Jul 2019 | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CHRIS SIMPSON Wolwedans Namibia VII, 2007 Archival pigment print | | | | 23 May – 22 June 2019 | | Private view on Thursday 23 May (6.30 – 8.30pm). The artist will be present. | | | | | | | | Atlas Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of photographs by Chris Simpson in London. Simpson’s Carnets de Voyage series of images taken during his years travelling the world capture the beauty of the places he went - including Madagascar, Namibia, Cuba, the UK and the people he met there. The clean lines and pared-back compositions of the photographs lend Simpson’s work a sharpness that cuts straight to the heart of the subject matter and a gravity that addresses the power of the natural landscape. Simpson was born in 1952 in Zurich, and was raised in Africa and Mauritius. His unique way of seeing was influenced by the exoticism of the natural world that surrounded him. Simpson’s photographs exemplify his innate understanding of the simplicity of natural beauty and form. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eva Stenram Detail from Vanishing Point (2016) Digital print on silk, framed C-type print on Fuji Chrystal Archive Paper, wood support 73 x 100 cm / framed 81 x 108 cm / length of fabric 10 m, Edition of 3 Courtesy THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY Amsterdam |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Renato D’Agostin "Harmony of Chaos" | | | | 25 May – 31 August, 2019 | | Opening: Saturday, 25 May, 2-7pm | | | | | | | | With this new series entitled "Harmony of Chaos", Renato D’Agostin, questioning the human condition, carries us along a deep and dense atmosphere. These compelling photographs flirting with abstraction undoubtedly make up his most accomplished body of works to date. Renowned for his unique style, exhibited throughout the world, featured in prestigious private and public collections and subject of numerous successful publications, Renato D'Agostin's work has held over the years a very special place in the world of photography. With his new series, Harmony of Chaos, the artist sets the bar even higher, uncovering new grounds. In "Harmony of Chaos", Renato D'Agostin depicts the vibration and claustrophobia he felt in the streets of Shanghai. Far from drawing a simple portrait of the city, he makes from this sensorial experience a series that highlights the DNA of post-modern cities at large. The photographs emphasize on the anonymity generated by urban structures in a mastered vocabulary that endlessly plays with scales. The series gives us a sense of the fast-paced changes that occurred in these cities and questions the place of Man in these new megalopolis. | |
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Summer (Ami), #smudge 2015 ©Kenta Cobayashi, Courtesy METRONOM, Modena |
Pink Hair, #blur #sharpness 2018 ©Kenta Cobayashi, Courtesy METRONOM, Modena |
| | | FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2019 - REGGIO EMILIA - XIV edition | | BONDING. Intimacy, relationships, new worlds | | Special weekend: Made in Japan: 25 - 26 May | exhibitions open through 9 June, 2019. | | | | | | | | | | | Kenta Cobayashi’s (Kanagawa, Japan, 1992) research is grounded in a conception of photography as a tool that produces unstable and constantly changeable images – the opposite of the fixed and static quality traditionally associated with the medium. Thanks to digital manipulation software, every photographic shot has transformed itself into the basis for the production of a potentially infinite quantity of variations; a process of constant reimagining of reality. Motoyuki Daifu will present a series of 20 images, printed in the same size, of his now ironically iconic Mother in the act of peeling an onion in a now equally iconic kitchen. An otherwise everyday act is presented through the particular photographic point of view of the artist. Okinawa is a tropical island of Japan and a popular tourist destination, but Ryuichi Ishikawa, born and raised here, has mixed feeling about that. Okinawa, caught between the histories of Japan and China and the economies of Japan and America, is continually manipulated by disputes between countries and the pressure exerted by them. This is an everyday occurrence in the island and the demands of daily life don’t leave to inhabitants room to turn our attention to it. He gots to know Mitsugu on Facebook and their relationship deepened partly from having a mutual friend. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | left: Paul Cupido, Yumemiru, Japan, 2016 / right: Paul Cupido, Suave, Lanzarote, 2016 Toned Archival Pigment Print, each 60 x 40 cm, Edition 7 & 2 AP | | | | 23 May - 6 July, 2019 | | Opening and book launch: Thursday, 23 May, 6-9pm - The artist will be present. | | | | | | | | «Wherever his worldwide photographic explorations take him, Paul Cupido brings to bear his childhood experience of growing up on an island on his images and the way he prefers to talk about them. The heartbeat of life on the island is constituted by the rhythm of the seasons, the moon, and the movement of the tides. The beauty of such strong environmental bonds, paired with a sense of the fragility of life, gave shape to Paul"s later engagement with photography and image-making. When I first met Paul Cupido in 2017, he was just about to graduate from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam, with a consummate photobook titled Searching for Mu that he self-published to great acclaim shortly thereafter. The electrifying images and equally hallucinating edit mirrored the new journey Cupido had embarked upon, a way of traveling, meaning not only a physical exploration of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, but above all a spiritual journey to the inner self. Later travels brought him to more tropical zones, to the southernmost Japanese islands and to the Brazilian Amazon. Whereas the principle of Mu—a key term in Eastern philosophy that is difficult to translate, but pertaining to the letting go of ego, to not having, to a void that holds endless potential—is still important, in recent series the emphasis has shifted to éphémère. Borrowing this notion from the artist Charlotte Davies and her immersive, interactive visual/aural artwork of the same name (1998), Cupido stresses the fleetingness of existence in the process of genesis, metamorphosis and disappearance, as well as focuses on the symbolic correspondences between earth and body. The ephemeral is also expressed through the moonlit landscapes and the dusk, that transitional zone in between the harsh light of day and the depths of the night. Coincidentally, "ephemerae" refers to temporary printed matter. Cupido"s well-crafted prints, however, promise anything but short-livedness, yet invite us to meditate on the fragility of life, the interconnectedness of humans and non-humans, and the silence that is at the heart of every word and image.» - Taco Hidde Bakker | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 135 W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978) Tomoko Uemura in her bath, Minamata, Japan 1972 Vintage silver print 15×24,5cm (5.9×9.6in) € 5.000–6.000 | | 19th WESTLICHT PHOTO AUCTION | | | | | | | | | | | | In addition to spectacular Austrian rarities like "Frau Johanna Staude, zur Erinnerung von Gustav Klimt" (Mrs. Johanna Staude, as a memory, from Gustav Klimt) by Moriz Nähr there are grand examples of international photo art in the selection of the Auction. With "Konstrukce" (estimate: 20,000–25,000 Euro), a detail from the Eiffel Tower from 1928, Jaroslav Rössler created one of his most distinctive and advanced photographs. Among the further icons from photo history: "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" (estimate: 7,000–8,000 Euro), taken in 1945 by US war photographer Joe Rosenthal, Gordon Parks’s famous "American Gothic", 1946 (estimate: 6,000–8,000 Euro), "Mrs. Eveleigh Nash at the Buckingham Palace Mall" by Inge Morath, 1953 (estimate: 4,000–5,000 Euro), or W. Eugene Smith’s deeply moving picture "Tomoko Uemura in her Bath", which made history as the "pietà of the industrial age" (estimate: 5,000–6,000 Euro). Ernst Haas, Austrian colleague of W. Eugene Smith and Inge Morath at agency Magnum Photos is represented with a dazzling chromogenic print of a "Swimmer", Greece 1970 (estimate: 3,000–4,000 Euro). Remarkable items also among the photobooks: three very rare original first editions of "PROVOKE", signed by photographers Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira and Yutaka Takanashi (estimate: 30,000–35,000 Euro), are coming up for auction. The legendary magazine, as controversial as it was influential, was self-published between 1968 and 1969 and discontinued after only three numbers. It presented photographs, essays and poems and is today a sought-after collectible. More rare first edition will go under the hammer with August Sander’s "Antlitz der Zeit", Munich 1929 (estimate: 14,000–16,000 Euro) and Alexey Brodovitch’s "Ballet", New York 1945 (estimate: 6,000–8,000 Euro) among others. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Irving Penn Young Berber Shepherdess, Morocco. 1971 Gelatin silver print, selenium toned, 1983 39,6 × 38 cm (40,4 × 50,4 cm) (15 5⁄8 × 15 in. (15 7⁄8 × 19 7⁄8 in.)) EUR 50.000–70.000 | | Modern and Contemporary Photography | | Aczel, Marta 2123 Albin Guillot, Laure 2147 Araki , Nobuyoshi 2146 Arndt, Gertrud 2114, 2115 Arnold, Eve 2000 Astfalck-Vietz, Marta 2093, 2094, 2117 Ellen Auerbach & Eliot Porter 2022 Avery, Sid 2001, 2006 Baruch, Lily 2098 Besnyö, Eva 2085 Bing, Ilse 2158 Bleicken, Bleicke 2164 Bonney, Thérèse 2044 Brandl, Steffi 2108 Burckhardt, Rudy 2028 Burri, René 2029, 2137 Byk, Suse 2012, 2087 Capa, Robert 2135 Carapetian, Michael 2038 Clergue, Lucien 2162, 2163, 2191, 2192 Continental Photo 2040 D'Ora, Madame 2104, 2106, 2111 Diez-Dührkoop, Minya 2109 Drtikol, František 2183, 2184, 2185, 2189 Ehrhardt, Alfred 2066, 2149, 2150, 2157 Fleischmann, Trude 2092, 2103 Freund, Gisèle 2021, 2130 Funke, Jaromír 2141 Gibson, Ralph 2033 Glogau, Edith 2105 Gontscharowa, Natalja 2178 Groebli, René 2188 Gundlach, F.C. 2008 Hájek, Karel 2065 Hajek-Halke, Heinz 2153, 2154 Halsman, Philippe 2005 Hamm, Manfred 2079, 2080 Hartmann, Erich 2034 Hausmann, Raoul 2064 Hoepffner, Marta 2156 Hoffmann, Kitty 2122 Holtappel, Rudolf 2069, 2070 Homolka, Florence 2132 Horst, Horst P. 2126, 2128 Jacobi, Lotte 2091, 2102 Koelbl, Herlinde 2003 Kollar, František 2136 Korda, Alberto 2131 Kühn, Heinrich 2054 Lendvai-Dircksen, Erna 2097 List, Herbert 2074 MacRae, Wendell 2047 Man Ray 1204, 2177, 2182, 2190 Manassé 2113 Mantz, Werner 433, 2042, 2043 Mapplethorpe, Robert 2148 March, Charlotte 2169, 2170, 2171, 2172 Mark, Mary Ellen 2017, 2019 Morath, Inge 2127 Morgan, Barbara 2179, 2180 Moses, Stefan 2018 Munkácsi, Martin 2181 Nini und Carry Hess 2118 Nixon, Nicholas 2173, 2174, 2175 Norman, Dorothy 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 Penn, Irving 2015 Quigley, Edward W. 2032 Regan, Ken 2002 Rehbein, Curt 2082 Renger-Patzsch, Albert 2051, 2052, 2053, 2072, 2142, 2143 Richter, Ursula 2099, 2100 Riebesehl, Heinrich 2035, 2036 Riefenstahl, Leni 2165, 2166, 2167, 2168 Ritts, Herb 2193 Rohde, Werner 2152 Rössler, Jaroslav 2139, 2155 Rudolph, Charlotte 2095, 2096, 2101 Rudomine, Albert 2186, 2187 Sandalo, Atelier de 2045, 2046 Sander, August 2013, 2014 Schmölz, Karl Hugo 2048, 2049, 2050, 2056 Schneiders, Toni 2160 Schoeller, Martin 2009 Seidemann, Bob 2004 Senkinc, Franz 2161 Sima, Michel 2129, 2134 Sougez, Emmanuel 2140 Stegemeyer, Elfriede 2144 Steinert, Otto 2073, 2075 Stern, Bert 2010 Stone, Cami 2110 Stone, Sasha und Cami 2081, 2088 Sudek, Josef 2055, 2133 Thalemann, Else 2068 Troller, Georg Stefan 2037 van Lew (Boeck), Edith 2090 Vaux, Marc 2039 Walther, Sonja 2112 Weegee 2076 Weston, Edward 2020, 2145 Wolff, Dr. Paul 2030, 2031, 2060, 2061, 2067, 2086 Yva 2089, 2116, 2120, 2124, 2125 Zander & Labisch 2083 Zimmermann, Harf 2077 | | Auction no. 304: Wednesday 29 May 2019, 6 p.m. Preview in Berlin: Friday, 24 May, 10 am – 8 pm Saturday, 25 May, 10 am – 6 pm Sunday, 26 May, 10 am – 6 pm Monday, 27 May, 10 am – 6 pm Tuesday, 28 May, 10 am – 3 pm Catalogue: grisebach.com | |
| | | | | | | | Special collector’s items can be discovered in the Photography department: an absolute rarity is the 1925 work "Triebwerk einer Lokomotive" by Albert Renger- Patzsch (EUR 40,000-60,000). The market for Renger- Patzsch is growing internationally, and his works are increasingly sought after. Irving Penn shaped photography like no other. "Young Berber Shepherdess, Morocco" from our auction, dated 1971, was sold by Vogue to Natalia Vodianova’s charity auction for the benefit of the Naked Heart Foundation, New York, to the current owners (EUR 50,000- 70,000). From another great American photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe - a close friend of Patti Smith - we will auction the special still life "Rose with Smoke" from 1985 (EUR 30,000-40,000). Another top lot is František Drtikol’s work "Composition au nu aux poires" from 1925 (EUR 40,000-60,000), an example of his typically "scenic" worlds. | |
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| | | | | | | | Lot 4322 Raghubir Singh. Indien, Kashmir. 1978. Dye Transfer Print | | Bassenge Photography Auction 112 | | 19th – 21st Century Photography | | | | Wednesday June 5, 2019 15:00 Erdener Str. 5a, 14193 Berlin Preview: Rankestrasse 24, 10789 Berlin Mon 27 May - Sat 1 June, 10:00 – 18:00 Mon 3 June, 10:00 – 18:00 Tue 4 June, 10:00 – 15:00 as well as by appointment Online Catalogue: www.bassenge.com | | Lot 4101 Thorsten Brinkmann. "Ernie. Portraits of a Studiodog". 2011. 6 chromogenic prints |
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| | | | | | | | Heinrich Kühn In Bacino di San Marco, Venezia, c. 1898 Gum dichromate print on structured water colour paper 50.6 x 65.7 cm € 20,000 – 30,000 Lot 18 / Auction 1133 Photography | | Lempertz Photography | | Auction 1133 | Photography | Friday 31 May 2019, 2 pm Auction 1135 | Contemporary Art + Photography | Saturday 1 June 2019, 2 pm | | | | | Auction 1133 Photography Friday 31 May 2019, 2 pm Vernissage: Friday 24 May 2019, 6 pm Preview: Saturday 25 May, 10 am – 4 pm Sunday 26 May, 11 am – 3 pm Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 November, 10 am – 5.30 pm Thursday 30 May, 10 am – 3 pm Online Catalogue: www.lempertz.com | | |
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| | | | This year's Spring auction presents an internationally and thematically wide-ranging, high carat spectrum of 19th and 20th century photography. The auction starts with a highlight from the early days of photography, a daguerreotype from 1845 showing the six founding fathers of the "Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin" shortly after the association was founded - a particular rarity. The fact that all the figures depicted are famous physicists and that the origins of the recording are precisely documented on an accompanying autograph, makes this unique photograph scientifically important. The photograph was taken by the physicist and mineralogist Gustav Karsten (1820-1900) who, thanks to the long exposure time, was able to immortalise himself with his colleagues in the picture (lot 1, € 6/8,000). Also worth mentioning is a selection of outstanding albumen prints by Wilhelm von Gloeden, Guglielmo Plüschow and Vincenzo Galdi. In exceptionally good condition, the portraits and open-air studies of young men, partly in antique-style nakedness, partly in contemporary costume, were taken before or around 1900 and are mostly from an Italian private collection (lots 6-17, € 1000-1,200). For the fourth successive time, Lempertz is offering a selection of outstanding fine prints by Heinrich Kühn, the master of pictorial photography. The large-format gum dichromate print "In Bacino di San Marco, Venezia", taken in around 1898, is one of the highlights of the auction with its atmospheric conception, reminsiscent of 19th century veduta paintings (lot 18, € 20/30,000). The portrait of his photographic colleague Edward Steichen, presented here as a platinum print on Japan paper, is impressive evidence of Kühn's skill in dealing with extreme tonal values (lot 23, € 20/30,000). A portfolio by Willy Zielke gathers a selection of twelve still lifes from the years 1929-35. Characteristic for Zielke's particular photographic style are the carefully arranged compositions of the photographs and the close-up perspective typical for New Objectivity photography. Elaborately designed by Klaus Wittkugel, only a few copies of the portfolio were made and has never before been offered at auction (lot 59, € 6/8,000). Also offered is a rare "brûlage" by Raoul Ubac (lot 75, € 8/10,000). This is a surrealistic alienation process developed by Ubac in which the previously exposed glass negative is exposed to great heat setting a process of deformation in motion. Ubac used this process for only a few years making the brûlage offered here a rarity. Robert Mapplethorpe's "Snakeman" belongs to those portraits in which the photographer depicts his models with antique attributes. The unidentified young man wears a black satyr mask reminiscent of fetish objects, whilst the snake winding around his shoulders, a phallic symbol, shows him as a seducer as well as the seduced (lot 156, € 8/12,000). The colour photographs of Saul Leiter have so far been rarely offered in German-speaking auctions. The chromogenic print with the title "Snow" shows a view through a misty window onto a snowy street with dark, shadowy silhouettes of passers-by (lot 147, € 5/7,000). The shot "Antartica" is from Sebastião Salgado's famous "Genesis" series, depicting a mountain range stretching to the horizon and populated by an army of penguins (lot 182, € 8,000). | |
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| | | | | | | | Axel Hütte Seljalandsfoss, Iceland Waterfall #2, 2002 Chromogenic print 105.7 x 187.5 cm From an edition of 4 € 15,000 – 20,000 Lot 903 / Auction 1135 Contemporary Art + Photography | | Lempertz Photography | | Auction 1133 | Photography | Friday 31 May 2019, 2 pm Auction 1135 | Contemporary Art + Photography | Saturday 1 June 2019, 2 pm | | | | Auction 1135 Contemporary Art + Photography Saturday 1 June 2019, 2 pm Vernissage: Friday 24 May 2019, 6 pm Preview: Saturday 25 May, 10 am – 4 pm Sunday 26 May, 11 am – 3 pm Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 May, 10 am – 5.30 pm Thursday 30 May, 10 am – 3 pm Online Catalogues: Contemporary Art 1 | Contemporary Art 2 | | |
| | | | | | | | One highlight from the "Contemporary Art" is a large-format work by Marina Abramović, a film still from the video installation "Balkan Erotic Epic" showing the artist herself posing as the goddess of fertility as seen in traditional Balkan folk culture (lot 625, € 25/30,000). A further work of interest is the black and white photograph "Tattooed Fuck" by Nobuyoshi Araki, a coveted motif from his "Tokyo Comedy" series (lot 647, € 20/30,000). Further highlights of the auction come from the photographers of the "Düsseldorf School", including Axel Hütte with a poetic shot of an Icelandic waterfall as a large-format chromogenic print (lot 903, € 15/20,000). Thomas Ruff is present with a screenprint from his series "Anderes Portrait" (lot 850, € 9,000), and Elger Esser with one of his characteristic bright, old-masterly river landscapes (lot 905, € 8/12,000). | |
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| | | | | | | | | | © Marion Gronier - I am your fantasy | | | | Searching for Beauty | | Anna-Tia Buss » Marion Gronier » Henry Leutwyler » Elena Parris » Alexandre Silberman » Shelli Weiler » Franziska Willimann » Andreas Wisskirchen » ... | | until 17 June 2019 | | | | | | | | For a whole 4 weeks, Lenzburg will once again be dedicated to photography and will bring together experts and professionals from near and far to awaken and deepen its visitors' enjoyment of photography. Exhibition "Schein und Sein" by Henry Leutwyler at Stapferhaus 17 May – 17 June, 2019 The exhibition "Schein und Sein" - a collaboration between the Lenzburg Photo Festival, the Stapferhaus and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Le Locle - is a reflection on the search for beauty and the real - and at the same time a journey back to the first home of the photographer Henry Leutwyler. Born in Lenzburg, he went out into the wide world at the age of 14 and taught himself how to photograph. Today he has photographed the greatest stars of our time and the covers of the most important magazines. The exhibition shows where Leutwyler came from and how far he has come: a life between appearances and reality. More information: www.henryleutwyler.com Complete festival program: www.fotofestivallenzburg.ch | |
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| | | | | | | © Mandy Barker | | The Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto 2019 | | 11 curators // 53 artists // 16 venues // 8 workshops // 1 symposium // 1 publication // social events // | | Mandy Barker » Diogo Bento » Lien Botha » Rita Castro Neves » Edson Chagas » Chana de Moura » Lena Dobrowolska » Jayne Dyer » Ewa Ciechanowska & Artur Urbanski » Virgílio Ferreira » Filippo Menichetti & Martin Errichiello » Constanze Flamme » Lucas Foglia » João Gigante » Alberto Giuliani » Lisa Hoffmann » Katrin Koenning » Kovi Konowiecki » Daniel Moreira » Maria Pia Oliveira » Teo Ormond-Skeaping » Sarker Protick » Cláudio Reis » Dinis Santos » Claudius Schulze » ... | | – 2 July 2019 | | | | | | | | From 16 May to 2 July, the city of Porto will host the first edition of Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto. The Bienal supports innovative approaches to visual representation that contribute to a greater critical awareness of the ecological and social vulnerabilities we face. Ci.CLO develops a continuous research and experimentation in collaboration with artists, questioning its own methodologies and proposing narratives, both utopian and dystopian, motivated by cultural and environmental changes. ADAPTATION AND TRANSITION, the title of the first Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto, suggests a dialogic relationship marked by social and environmental crisis. Each era can be characterised in how collective expectations and fears are managed. History tells us that attempts to react are based on scientific and technological development, together with an appeal for awareness, rational thinking and greater spirituality. Concerns related to environmental and ecological changes has emerged in the last 50 years. Narratives surrounding conflicts between culture and nature, which determine our survival and stability on the planet, have gained increasingly more space and consistency. This century is at a critical point. Survival is discussed in terms of imminent risk and emergency. How can artistic mobilisations function in this time of great contradiction? There is a need to critique global governance that continues to promote ecologically unsustainable strategies. How can we diagnose this "crisis of our time" beyond the pessimism that has created a state of global passivity? What is the "response-ability" we want to encourage? | |
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| | | | | | | | | FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2019 - REGGIO EMILIA | | Vincenzo Castella » Kenta Cobayashi » Motoyuki Daifu » Larry Fink » Samuel Gratacap » Horst P. Horst » Ryuichi Ishikawa » Francesco Jodice » Pixy Liao » ... | | exhibitions open through 9 June, 2019. | | 24 festival exhibitions, 10 exhibition venues across the city, 6 regional partners, over 120 artists, 85 events and OFF Circuit, an extended collective event and creative showcase for professionals, amateurs and upcoming artists that includes over 300 exhibitions. | | | | | | | | From April 12th to June 9th, Reggio Emilia will host the XIV edition of FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, the festival organised by Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in collaboration with the Comune of Reggio Emilia and the Region of Emilia-Romagna, with support from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. The festival explores all spheres of photography, the art form that best interprets the complexities of contemporary society. Exhibitions, talks, performances and workshops are highlights of Fotografia Europea, an event never before so rich, which is populated by key figures in photography, culture and knowledge, and hosted across the city's main cultural institutions and exhibition spaces. Conceived and designed by the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Palazzo Magnani – composed of Marco Belpoliti, Vanni Codeluppi, Marina Dacci, Marzia Faietti and Gerhard Wolf, under the artistic direction of Walter Guadagnini – FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2019 is built around the theme of BONDING: Intimacy, Relationships, New Worlds, which will run like a fil rouge through all the exhibitions in the programme. | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Specters of Noon (video still), 2019. Courtesy of the artists © Allora & Calzadilla |
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| | | | | | | Hannah Bronte FUTCHA ANCIENT (detail) 2018 lightboxes, photographic prints, textiles, ink, shell Photograph: Mia Forrest |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Steve McCurry, Kunduz, Afghanistan, 2002, stampa digitale montata su DBOND, 70 x 100 cm, courtesy © Steve McCurry |
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| | | | | | | Carrie Mae Weems, Slow Fade to Black (Abbey Lincoln), 2010. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY |
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| | | | | | | Angelica Mesiti, ASSEMBLY, 2019 (production still) three-channel video installation in architectural amphitheater. HD video projections, color, six-channel mono sound, 25 mins, dimensions variable. © Photography: Bonnie Elliott. Australian Pavillon | | The 58th International Art Exhibition | | May You Live in Interesting Times | | Lawrence Abu Hamdan » Halil Altindere » Korakrit Arunanondchai » Ed Atkins » Nairy Baghramian » Neil Beloufa » Carol Bove » Lee Bul » Antoine Catala » Ian Cheng » Alex Da Corte » Stan Douglas » Jimmie Durham » Haris Epaminonda » Cyprien Gaillard » Gauri Gill » Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster » Shilpa Gupta » Martine Gutierrez » Rula Halawani » Anthony Hernandez » Ryoji Ikeda » Arthur Jafa » Cameron Jamie » Kahlil Joseph » Mari Katayama » Christian Marclay » Teresa Margolles » Jean-Luc Moulène » Zanele Muholi » Otobong Nkanga » Frida Orupabo » Jon Rafman » Tomas Saraceno » Avery Singer » Michael E. Smith » Hito Steyerl » Tavares Strachan » Rosemarie Trockel » Danh Vo » Apichatpong Weerasethakul » LIU Wei (*1972) » Yin Xiuzhen » Anicka Yi » SUN Yuan » ... | | 11 May – 24 Nov 2019 | | | | | | | | | The 58th International Art Exhibition, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, will take place from 11 May to 24 November 2019 (Pre-opening on 8, 9, 10 May). The title is a phrase of English invention that has long been mistakenly cited as an ancient Chinese curse that invokes periods of uncertainty, crisis and turmoil; "interesting times", exactly as the ones we live in today. The 58th Exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff, currently the director of the Hayward Gallery in London. Between 1985 and 2002 he wrote art and cultural criticism for numerous periodicals, publishing widely in art magazines as well as newspapers, and published a collection of essays, Circus Americanus (1995). During the same period he began working as an independent curator. The Exhibition will also include 90 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. Four countries will be participating for the first time at the Biennale Arte: Ghana, Madagascar, Malaysia and Pakistan. The Dominican Republic exhibits for the first time at the Biennale Arte with its own national pavilion. | |
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