The Moscow Museum of Modern Art devotes its five floors to one of the most controversial artists of the former USSR. From Azerbaijani origins, Rauf Mamedov takes advantage of the space for a retrospective of his work. The exhibition is organized by curator Aïdan Salakhova, herself being an...

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Polka Gallery often presents several other works by young photographers, parallely from their main exhibition, which is why this spring during the homage to Marc Riboud, we will be able to discover three different exhibitions. Under the title “Grace and Sensuality,” one part of the work by ...

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The exhibition is devoted to “Cavaliers of Fletcher Street” of whom Martha Camarillo has also produced a short feature film and a photo exhibition, also presented in the Polka Gallery. Martha Camarillo is a Texas-born American photographer, living in New York. She has portrayed the young a...

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Marc Montméat is a 33 year-old artist, whose work has been supported by Marc Riboud. For over 10 years he has been an insertion and probation counselor in the prison environment. In 2009, while participating in the SFR Jeunes Talents Grand Prix presided by Reza, he became known to the public...

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Sumatra after a tsunami? L’Aquila after the earthquake? “I didn’t give it a thought” says Gregory Crewdson, standing in the center of the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, where his exhibition will be on show until March 5th. It’s called “Sanctuary”. This famous sanctuary is depicted in forty-...

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The video shown is the trailer from the film Julien Levy is presenting alongside his photographs and texts at Gallery Acte2 in Paris. Julien Levy is 28 years old, lives in Tokyo and would like for his work to be read as a giant manifesto, an actual concept manifesto where word and ...

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In March 2011, the GwinZegal Center for Art and Research is inaugurating a new exhibition space in Guingamp, resulting from the “visual arts” project they began in 2003 to produce and distribute exhibitions and publish books. The space can be defined as an experimental place, a...

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As in recent issues, the release of “Polka, photojournalism’s magazine” is accompanied by a series of exhibitions presented at the gallery of the same name. This Spring 2011 edition, the 12th, remains faithful to its editorial origins established in 2007, the year of its creation. Among the ex...

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Maske features recent photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Included in the exhibition are sixteen large-scale color prints presenting African and Haitian figures in indigenous masquerade costume. In her recurring travels throughout Africa and the Caribbean over the past thirteen years, ...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

In the summer of 2009, Clic Gallery mounted Store Front: The disappearing face of New York, a photographic survey documenting the fast-disappearing mom-and-pop stores of New York City, in conjunction with the release of their book of the same title. James and Karla Murray...

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