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Kourtney Roy
Recent self-portraits
Borderline between art and fashion, Kourtney Roy combines fiction with self-portrait, exploring the strange aspects of daily life through the characters she incarnates,some exceedingly perfect women locked in banality. Absent from themselves, these women are featured in installat...
21.06.2012[ read full story ]
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Big Bang, du Squat au centre artistique
From May 30 to June 11, the Florence Moll agency and its gallery will present AFTERSQUAT at 59 Rivoli in Paris for the exhibition Big Bang.
Photographers and 3D artists are pushing the limits of creation with the help of digital technology, creating new images and explosive hy...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Caractères: 5 photographers, 5 views
Five artists, five photographers, five visions of mankind are on display at the Galerie Sophie Scheidecker’s exhibition Caractères, from May 3 to July 13. Viewers are invited to discover a reality reexamined through the lenses of Suzanne Lafont, Yasumassa Morimura, Cindy Sherman ...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Paul Schiek, Dead men don’t look like me
Last days to visit Dead men don’t look like me. Presented are 15 portraits of men re-photographed from 1950s-era mug shots found by the artist’s friend Mike Brodie in an abandoned Georgia prison. Brodie gifted the mug shots to Paul Schiek, who then edited the origin...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Colors of Shadow
“In the center of a large room, in full light , stood like a column from floor to ceiling a crystal prism of great density and absolute clarity. This experimental observation allows sunlight to pass through it every morning, casting, like a shadow, a world of colors onto the stu...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Ester Vonplon
Stiller Besuch
"What interests me is the miracle of the unspoken and the unseen. I am always in search of stories in my pictures, like a short film that only lasts one frame. I want you to see the photograph and for something inside you to change forever. I want to show you and make you feel that ther...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Michael Schnabel
White Land
« In these raw virgin landscapes I found tranquility, not only at night, but also during the day. This allowed me to work all day. These locations have a clarity and depth that one can feel. This body of work is a subjective image of these awe inspiring natural spaces where I am -once a...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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James Gallagher
Prolonging the Ecstasy
« I believe in the secret behavior of human beings. Capturing a fleeting moment or revealing a hidden world is what I strive to do. And if I’m successful, I am able to glimpse at some of the beauty, ugliness, solitude, and desire that exists in us all.
My collaged pieces focu...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Lina Scheynius
My own life of desire
“Journal of Sexual Independency” could be the title of Lina Scheynius’ diary. Desire, freedom, privacy: Scheynius tells the story of her life with a raw, moving honesty that is both beautiful and touching.
A 30-year old Swede based in London, Lina Scheynius never dreamed that p...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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Nadav Kander
Titans of the stage
"In all my work I try to mirror what it is like to be human. The emotions we encounter from day to day. There is so much beauty in vulnerability but popular imagery "air brushes" the shadow from our lives in the hope of pushing away what is inevitable. Whether I am working with Lan...
29.05.2012[ read full story ]
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