Exhibition

Bangkok:
Buddhadasa Bhiku

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Buddhadasa Bhiku was a revolutionary, an ascetic monk (reinterpreting the Buddhist doctrine, inspiring Thai and foreigners social and cultural activities, he founded an important community and center for study in the Surat Thani forest), but he was also a revolutionary visual artist and p...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Tim Hetherington:
Portraits of the blind

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In these photographs, Tim Hetherington takes a look at the eyes of those who cannot see. From 1999 to 2003, the late photographer visited the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Sierra Leone. Most of these sightless children were victims of the civil war, which began in 19...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Paris: Opening of a new gallery

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La(b) Galerie ArtyFact is a new art space located near the Place de Clichy in Paris. This gallery/laboratory was created by three women with an interest in photography in all its forms. Their aim is to exhibit the image in new ways. Every month La(b) Galerie ArtyFact invites a dozen ar...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Angelo Musco:
Cortex System

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The work of Angelo Musco is an ongoing story with each new chapter written in answer to the one that precedes it. The world of Tehom connects with Cortex System. We pass from the underwater world to the world under ground, still fertile and full of life. Cortex channels these abyssal liv...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Beth Yarnelle Edwards:
Suburban Dreams

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For fifteen years San Francisco photographer Beth Yarnelle Edwards has been making photographs which tell of her fascination with how we behave in our homes, of the ways we interact with our possessions and each other. Her large-scale color photographs are car...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Hamburg: Malte Jäger
Couchsurfin

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The idea is convincing: Offer strangers the chance to stay on your couch and in return it allows you to crash for free on couches anywhere in world. The system is called “couchsurfing” and it currently counts almost 6 million members worldwide. For his photography project Malte Jäge...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Manuel Vason:
Still_Movil

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The three languages of the project’s title indicate the itinerant and interdisciplinary nature of STILL_MÓVIL, an initiative of the London-based Italian-born artist Manuel Vason and the Red Suramericana de Danza. This is a project, which reunites within its essence two languages in constan...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

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The Best of Nude Photography

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Supported by Nikon, a World Premiere show has recently opened at the Czech Photo Gallery : The Best Of Nude Photography. For first time, the exhibition will show together unique personalities of the world of nude photography - Taras Kuscynskyj, Jan Saudek, Pavel Brunclik, Robert ...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

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New York: Santiago Sierra
Vétérans

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The oppressive installation by Santiago Sierra at the Team Gallery consists of nine life-sized photographs of war veterans turning their backs on the viewer, facing a corner. In his work, Santiago Sierra uses simple and obvious references to assert his oppositio...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Thomas Wrede: Catastrophe & Idyll

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Almost ten years in the making, the internationally acclaimed series “Real Landscapes” by German photographer Thomas Wrede (*1963), combines landscape panoramas with scenes using miniature models. In doing so, the suggestive power of images from the media as well as ...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

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