International Scenes at Paris Photo
Africa
For the first time Paris Photo is hosting an African gallery. The Michael Stevenson (Cape Town) is showing work by five artists: Pieter Hugo, Guy Tillim, Zanele Muholi, Berni Searle, Youssel Nabil.
Trained as a photojournalist, starting in the 1990s the South African Guy Tillim began documenting the armed conflicts and civil wars that have ravaged the continent, focussing on to the scars and other signs left on the landscape and on the psyche of their victims. Both an artist and an activist, Zanele Muholi’s recent series looks at life in Johannesburg’s black lesbian community. Her portraits of couples in their homes subvert traditional African society’s clichés and prejudices against alternative sexuality. Pieter Hugo’s work is centred on portraiture. His straightforward photos of individuals, taken amidst their signature surroundings, alone or with their families, are the product of an interchange between the artist and his subject.They reveal the emotionally charged and complex history of South African society. Bernie Searle works with the concepts of appearance and disappearance, visibility and invisibility, as applied to his own body during the course of performances transcribed by means of still photos, installations and videos. His themes include self-representation and identity, both personal and collective. In the series “Sleep in my arms,” Youssel Nabil stages his relationships with other men. Using manual photo-retouching techniques from another age, he transforms these photographic self-portraits into something like old-fashioned movie shots, reflecting a world of forbidden desires, fantasy and inner conflicts.
The Anne de Villepoix gallery (Paris) is showing a recent series by Zwelethu Mthethwa on sugarcane cutters and the wretched conditions endured by South Africans who choose exile to survive. Documentary in its approach but with an objective and evocative aesthetic, this South African artist asks farm workers pose in their own environment, revealing their personality and state of mind.
The Galerie du Jour Agnès b (Paris) joins the Fifty One Fine Arts Photography (Antwerp) in a tribute to Malick Sidibé (born 1935), one of Africa’s great photographers, with a selection of recent prints of unpublished portraits taken between 1965 and 1974. This Malian artist began his career in the late 1950s when he set up a photography studio in a lowerclass suburb of the capital, Bamako. His portraits record life’s major rituals (weddings, celebrations, etc.) in a traditional society undergoing radical transformations under the growing influence of Western fashions and music.
Asia
Japan’s presence at Paris Photo is reinforced with the arrival of the Taro Nasu gallery from Tokyo who comes to the Osaka galleries MEM and Photo Picture Space. For its first participation in Paris Photo, the Taro Nasu gallery has chosen to bring recent works by Taiji Matsue and Hirofumi Katayama. Born in 1963, Matsue is known for his black and white views of deserts and cities in which the sharpness and precision of the images recall ancient scroll paintings. At Paris Photo, he is showing his most recent colour series, “JP 22,” aerial views of coastlines where the overlapping of land and water are metaphors for fullness and void, Yin and Yang. Katayama’s smooth-surfaced doorways and antiseptic halls are deceptive: they are completely computer-generated, the product of algorithms this artist calls “Vectorscapes.” Japanese artists are also prominent at many Western galleries. Among them are Yasumasa Morimura at Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid), Masuyama at Studio La Citta (Verona), Mayumi Terada at Robert Miller (New York), Daido Moriyama and Rinko Kawauchi at Priska Pasquer (Cologne) and Shinichi Maruyama at Bruce Silverstein (New York).
This year Chinese artists are represented by Italy’s Marella gallery, which set up a local office in Peking. The gallery is showing some of today’s rising talents: Ciu Xiuwen (born 1970), whose "Angel" series (2006) shows a pregnant 13-year-old surrounded by her clones, embodying the dreams and questions of Chinese youth.Yang Huang (b. 1966), is a poet inspired by classical landscapes and calligraphy, who photographs the bluegreen mountains he tattoos on his body. The video stills of performances by Ma Liuming, depict an androgynous silhouette that brings Taoist monks to mind.
For the first time Paris Photo is hosting an African gallery. The Michael Stevenson (Cape Town) is showing work by five artists: Pieter Hugo, Guy Tillim, Zanele Muholi, Berni Searle, Youssel Nabil.
Trained as a photojournalist, starting in the 1990s the South African Guy Tillim began documenting the armed conflicts and civil wars that have ravaged the continent, focussing on to the scars and other signs left on the landscape and on the psyche of their victims. Both an artist and an activist, Zanele Muholi’s recent series looks at life in Johannesburg’s black lesbian community. Her portraits of couples in their homes subvert traditional African society’s clichés and prejudices against alternative sexuality. Pieter Hugo’s work is centred on portraiture. His straightforward photos of individuals, taken amidst their signature surroundings, alone or with their families, are the product of an interchange between the artist and his subject.They reveal the emotionally charged and complex history of South African society. Bernie Searle works with the concepts of appearance and disappearance, visibility and invisibility, as applied to his own body during the course of performances transcribed by means of still photos, installations and videos. His themes include self-representation and identity, both personal and collective. In the series “Sleep in my arms,” Youssel Nabil stages his relationships with other men. Using manual photo-retouching techniques from another age, he transforms these photographic self-portraits into something like old-fashioned movie shots, reflecting a world of forbidden desires, fantasy and inner conflicts.
The Anne de Villepoix gallery (Paris) is showing a recent series by Zwelethu Mthethwa on sugarcane cutters and the wretched conditions endured by South Africans who choose exile to survive. Documentary in its approach but with an objective and evocative aesthetic, this South African artist asks farm workers pose in their own environment, revealing their personality and state of mind.
The Galerie du Jour Agnès b (Paris) joins the Fifty One Fine Arts Photography (Antwerp) in a tribute to Malick Sidibé (born 1935), one of Africa’s great photographers, with a selection of recent prints of unpublished portraits taken between 1965 and 1974. This Malian artist began his career in the late 1950s when he set up a photography studio in a lowerclass suburb of the capital, Bamako. His portraits record life’s major rituals (weddings, celebrations, etc.) in a traditional society undergoing radical transformations under the growing influence of Western fashions and music.
Asia
Japan’s presence at Paris Photo is reinforced with the arrival of the Taro Nasu gallery from Tokyo who comes to the Osaka galleries MEM and Photo Picture Space. For its first participation in Paris Photo, the Taro Nasu gallery has chosen to bring recent works by Taiji Matsue and Hirofumi Katayama. Born in 1963, Matsue is known for his black and white views of deserts and cities in which the sharpness and precision of the images recall ancient scroll paintings. At Paris Photo, he is showing his most recent colour series, “JP 22,” aerial views of coastlines where the overlapping of land and water are metaphors for fullness and void, Yin and Yang. Katayama’s smooth-surfaced doorways and antiseptic halls are deceptive: they are completely computer-generated, the product of algorithms this artist calls “Vectorscapes.” Japanese artists are also prominent at many Western galleries. Among them are Yasumasa Morimura at Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid), Masuyama at Studio La Citta (Verona), Mayumi Terada at Robert Miller (New York), Daido Moriyama and Rinko Kawauchi at Priska Pasquer (Cologne) and Shinichi Maruyama at Bruce Silverstein (New York).
This year Chinese artists are represented by Italy’s Marella gallery, which set up a local office in Peking. The gallery is showing some of today’s rising talents: Ciu Xiuwen (born 1970), whose "Angel" series (2006) shows a pregnant 13-year-old surrounded by her clones, embodying the dreams and questions of Chinese youth.Yang Huang (b. 1966), is a poet inspired by classical landscapes and calligraphy, who photographs the bluegreen mountains he tattoos on his body. The video stills of performances by Ma Liuming, depict an androgynous silhouette that brings Taoist monks to mind.
posted by Photography Collection at
7:37 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home