Exhibition

Alma Lavenson: ou la composition géométrique

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With their velvety texture, these vintage photographs of Alma Lavenson are rooted in the 1930s and 40s. Lavenson documented the era’s architecture and industrial environment. Her photographs of metal and wood mechanisms, taken mainly at the end of the 19...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Alain Ernoult:
Flights of Fancy

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For the event Marseille Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture, the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France (Aeronautics and Astronautics Association of France), in partnership with Eurocopter—official partner of Marseille Provence 2013—and the Aéroport Marseille Prov...

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Montevideo
Photography in Uruguay

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A highly informative exhibition complements the generous program at the CDF (Centro de fotografia) in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. Fotografía en Uruguay. Historia y Usos Sociales 1840-1930 (Photography in Uruguay, History and Social Uses) is the center’s latest testimony to...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Pierre Cambon:
Jeter l'encre

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Pierre Cambon is a versatile artist whose work combines photography, engraving, drawing and choreography. In his search for a balance between the intimate and the ostensible, between inner light and an outer glow, he has mastered the interplay of silver grain and pigmen...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Pittsburgh: Doug DuBois & Aaron Blum

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To work on a personal subject is to expand, in some ways, the limits of self-portrait, to invent a photographic language combining introspection and projection that may very well include fiction. It is a visual contribution to the memoirs and first-hand accounts that have marked l...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

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London: Denis Piel
Essence

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Kenny Schachter / Rove presents Essence, a solo show by photographer and filmmaker Denis Piel a selection of images which offer an articulation of his search within his practice which is essential and authentic. Rising to prominence in the 1980s in the field of ...

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Jaume de Laiguana: Retrospective 1997-2012

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In the exhibition to open at the Palau Robert in Barcelona on March 1, the art director, producer and photographer Jaume de Laiguana selected 158 large-format photographs taken over the last 15 years to illustrate his professional career, works all infused w...

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New York: Joshua Lutz
Hesitating Beauty

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To speak openly of mental illness is one of the last great taboos. Not to speak of treatment, of therapies, of medication, doctors, hospitals—not to speak of the industry that has been in existence for but a century, but to speak of the people themselves. Of their inner and ou...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Berlin: Gabriele Basilico
Common Pavilions

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On the international calendar, art fairs and biennials come one after the other. These events may be temporary, but the places where they are held remain as history’s proof of past events. Every year In Venice, the Giardini parkland welcomes either the Venice Biennale of Ar...

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Picturing China 1870-1950 from British Collections

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Picturing China 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections is an exhibition currently held at the JW Marriot in Beijing; it was organized in collaboration with the British Embassy in Beijing. This event unveils photographs dating back to the 1870s, whic...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]

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