NEVERLAND

Filed under: Peinture - Illustration | Tags: Bruxelles, galerie |

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“… Then the internet happened. A twenty-first century figure, Sam McKinniss was spared all the drama of centuries past. Liberated from these historical squabbles around painting’s primacy or lack of legitimacy, he came of age as an artist with unfettered relationships to his medium and celebrity worship, enabled by this other monster called Google.” (Alison M. Gingeras).

COPIES

Filed under: Art contemporain, Peinture - Illustration, Photographie | Tags: galerie, Paris |

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L’éditeur/commissaire d’expositions Théophile Calot réunit au cœur de cette exposition, cinq artistes qui pour la plupart entretiennent un rapport étroit à l’édition: Christian Aschman, Félicia Atkinson, Valérian Goalec, Ronan le Creurer et Caroline Reveillaud. Dans l’espace de la galerie, deux structures sur lesquelles est disposée une sélection d’œuvres et de publications réalisées par chacun des artistes invités se font face.

Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris. 08.09.2018 > 29.09.2018.

TOUCH ME

Filed under: Peinture - Illustration | Tags: Cologne, galerie |

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“Arthur Löwen’s paintings are defined by symbolic handwriting on light undercoats of paint. On the front of the canvas, he applies a layer of color, which is covered by a final layer of white. While these layers of paint are still wet, he lays the canvas on an absorbent cloth, its backside facing up.”
(Marcel Hiller)

fiebach, minninger, Cologne. 02.02.2018 > 24.03.2018.

30 YEARS OF COLLABORATION

Filed under: Photographie | Tags: Brussels, exhibition, galerie |

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This year Galerie Greta Meert celebrates its 30th anniversary. And for exactly 30 years it has collaborated with Thomas Struth. Three series are presented: a selection from historical series of black-and-white street and townscapes, still lives of deceased animals at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin and monumental condensed images of Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Siemens Schaltwerk in Berlin.

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels. 01.02.2018 > 31.03.2018.

TERRE DES ÎLES

Filed under: Photographie | Tags: exposition, galerie, Paris |

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De la plus grande île du monde – le Groenland – à l’île de Beauté – la Corse – en passant par les Cyclades, la Sicile, l’Islande, Stromboli, Okinawa, les îles Féroé et Lofoten, Madagascar, la Nouvelle-Guinée, Hokkaido et les Galapagos, les murs de Polka se transforment en archipel. Exposition collective avec les images de Jacob Aue Sobol, Carmelo Bongiorno, Bernard Cantie, Joakim Eskildsen, William Klein, Daidō Moriyama, Claude Nori, Kosuke Okahara, Sebastião Salgado.

polkagalerie, Paris. 23.01.2018 > 03.03.2018.

DIG UP

Filed under: Art contemporain, Photographie, Vidéo – Film | Tags: Bruxelles, galerie |

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« Claude Cattelain aime la sobriété. Il aime dépouiller les formes, les techniques, les matériaux et les délester de tout. » (Extrait de Bis repetita placent de Barbara Forest)

Archiraar, Bruxelles. 24.11.2017 > 20.01.2018. 

THE AESTHETICS OF CONTAMINATION

Filed under: Art contemporain, Photographie | Tags: exposition, galerie, Paris |

DARK ROOM

Filed under: Art contemporain, Photographie | Tags: exhibition, galerie |

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For Paul Mpagi Sepuya, his medium is as much about disclosure as concealment, the role of the photographer ultimately one of control. Central to his practice is the undisguised and frequently experimental use of mirrors, which draws the viewer’s attention to the images’ photographic artifice, complicating the experience of looking at a subject, while also engendering a mystifying effect.

team (bungalow), Venice. 17.09.2017 > 22.10.2017.

STEPS AND MARCHES

Filed under: Art contemporain, Photographie | Tags: galerie |

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Marcin Dudek‘s “Steps & Marches.” is a collaborative exhibition with Chapter I taking place in Brussels and Chapter II in London at Edel Assanti Gallery. Each exhibition begins with the artist retracing his steps as a teenage member of the Cracovia football fan club.

Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels. 07.09.2017 > 28.10.2018.

PRESS++ SERIES

Filed under: Art contemporain, Photographie | Tags: Berlin, exposition, galerie |

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Images that have been published in American newspapers and magazines from the 1920s to 1970s are Thomas Ruff’s source material for his press++ series, images that in themselves have even more diverse archival origins; the police, NASA, press agencies and press departments of institutions, to name a few. From the 1930s onwards, most of the photographs were no longer sent by mail from the press agency to the newspapers but instead sent as a wire and were then printed out by the newspaper, therefore showing the structure of the wire transmission.

To produce these works, Ruff scans the front and back of each photograph and combines them digitally, taking into account the original image as well as crops, touch-ups, date stamps, scribbles and smudges. Each of these marks varies in line, colour, and implement used; a red stamp, an inky blue fingerprint, a biro squiggle. Ruff has commented how photo-editors at the newspapers had little respect for the photograph, significantly altering the look and meaning of the original with their retouching and comments. Despite how invisible the hand of the editor is typically made to seem, here they are placed front and centre.

SPRÜTH MAGERS, Berlin. 07.07.2017 > 26.08.2017.