Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

December 13, 2007

The Disclosed Hammam
Mediterranean Hammams , from Damas to Marseille - Opening December 18th, 2007

Opening December 18th, 2007 from 06:30pm to 09pm


The Disclosed Hammam - Mediterranean Hammams, from Damas to Marseille


Photographs by Anna Puig Rosado and Pascal Meunier

Centre Iris
http://www.centre-iris.fr
238, rue Saint Martin
75003 Paris
Téléphone : 01 48 87 06 09
Entrée libre

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December 07, 2007

RINEKE DIJKSTRA:"Park Portraits"
Reception Friday December 07th 2007

Reception Friday December 07th 2007, 06-08 pm at the Marian Goodman Gallerie

Following a fantastic traveling retrospective of her work, Rineke Dijkstra has recently unveiled her latest project - a new series of portraits of young people photographed, in city parks of the world, in which the artist's lens majestically captures life and the nuances of timeless rites of passage, and of identity, in medias res, an updated, modern album of magical woodland creatures. 'Park portraits', on show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, include images of schoolchildren and adolescents engaged in the rituals of their daily life, whether it be playing, socialising, resting, thinking, in city parks in Europe, China and the United States.

It's interesting that of all the portraits, varied as they are in focus and expression, not a single one is in what is known as a 'portrait' format. Using the lush framework of traditional landscape in a seemingly offhand manner echoes part of the sense of Dijkstra's latest images of youth - the natural and inevitable merging of two subjects, both personal and universal, which are in a state of constant change, and for which there is a longstanding artistic fascination to converse with and overturn. Writing about the park portraits in a Dutch daily newspaper during the time of the Stedelijk show, Kees Keijer wrote: 'Dijkstra let go of her former austerity and photographed four young people in Amsterdam during a "Dejeuner sur l'herbe anno 2005". Again the work is frontal, but now the pose is relaxed. The surroundings in Dijkstra's work used to be extremely sober; now, candy wrappings and empty soft drink bottles are lying about. A gaping rucksack zipper offers a nearly symbolic perspective on a different reality: one of homework, commitments and expectations for the future. But they don't want to think about that just now'.

The new body of work is slightly more playful than Dijkstra's previous, rather more austere series documenting the rites of passage of adolescence and childhood, from the 'Beach Portraits' of 1992, to the video installation 'Buzzclub/Mysterworld' (1996-1997), the 'Tiergarten Series' (1998-2000), 'Israeli soldiers' (1999-2000), and the single-subject portraits in serial transition: 'Almerisa' (1994-2005), 'Shany' (2001-2003) and 'Olivier' (2000-2003). In 'Park portraits', the portrait seems to shape the subject's possession of their own identity, now performing for us in a new, uncontrollable theatre of characters, safe in the comfort of their favorite spot.

Rineke Dijkstra. Park Portraits
December 07th,2007 to January 19th,

Marian Goodman Gallerie
http://www.mariangoodman.com/mg/paris.html
79, rue du Temple
75003 Paris

Metro Rambuteau
Free entrance 18h-20h

T. 01 48 04 70 52
Mail: parisgallery@mariangoodman.com

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November 23, 2007

City and transparencies - Adrienne Arth photographies
Opening Saturday November 24th from 06pm

Opening Saturday November 24th from 06pm (musical background by Dalila Khatir and Frédérique Wolf-Michaux, singers and lectures).


In the exhibition "City and transparencies" Adrienne Arth is going even further than usual in her stagging of the real world. Here, it's the movement and the race, the mass and the colour that are captured.

Legs, feet, bodies, faces, stolen moves on a metro exit, in a building reflection, in a train... We're witnessing a dislocation, a ripping of the reality. A sudden roar burst, a town is appearing: Paris, scarefied with humans, lives, traces... Photographs becomes a game of matters and shapes of many layers. The human being becomes a shape in space, a fulcrum where the eye stops and bounce back. In her work, the abstraction look is dominating, but also a definitive modern approach and a more radical photogrphic aesthetic.

City and transparencies - Adrienne Arth photographies
From November 24th to December 15th, 2007

L’Atelier Tampon-Ramier
http://www.ateliertampon-ramier.over-blog.com/
14, rue Jules Vallès
75011 Paris
Tel : 0143735346

Free entrance

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Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Opening on Saturday November 24th at the Galerie du Lucernaire

Opening and complementary "Tea Party", on Saturday November 24th at the Galerie du Lucernaire from 03pm to 06pm with the artists attending.

This exhibition is presented by the galerie du Lucernaire within the « Le 6ème, ateliers d’artistes » open doors week in Paris.

3 photographers…
Paul Muse is born in England in 1960. Photographer since he is eleven year old. After some litterature, Photo and cinema studies, he briefly worked in advertising before leaving the country for a two year stay in Sudan, then Portugal for 3 years. Moving to Paris in 1990, he since devoted himself to street photography and published his first solo exhibition in 1996. Since the summer of 2006, he works on the "Today" project, a daily newspaper in pictures and words, published on his website.

Frances Ryan settled down in Paris after years spent wandering around the world. It is only when she discovered the work of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston she decided to work exclusively in black and white. She runs through Paris, her city of adoption, to share with us the hidden secrets and her personnal vision of the city.

After studying Spanish litterature and Art History in Madrid and Paris, Laurence Toussaint worked for about 10 years at the contemporary art library Artcurial. Passionate for photography, she specialized in gardens and landscape and illustrate books about the wonders of nature.

Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Photographies by Paul Muse, Frances Ryan, Laurence Toussaint
from november 19th to december 2nd, 2007

Galerie du Lucernaire
http://www.lucernaire.fr/galerie.html
53, rue Notre Dame des Champs
75006 Paris
Free entrance (1st floor)
Monday to Saturday from 10am to 10pm
Sunday from 02pm to 10pm

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Xavier Zimbardo. The apparitions' genius
Opening on November 28th, 2007 at the Albert Benamou Gallerie

Opening on November 28th, 2007 from 06pm to 09pm

Since he escaped, twenty years ago, the verb archipelago where his teaching profession restricted him in order to give full time to his role as image creator, Xavier Zimbardo reported from his vagabondages through continents and worlds a stunning collection of photographic works. Nothing to do with documentaries cliches, anecdotal, quaint or exotic pictures. Each of his images has to be seen as an apparition, where the share of imagination, random effects and the inspirationnal impromptu haunt the scope of reality.

Whether views, scenes, portraits, this flash from another world make the snapshot iridescent. The aim of the artist is not to duplicate what he technically has under the eyes, but to subjectively produce what makes, from the bottom of his eye to the abbyss of the hypothalamus, the singular illumination of the captured image. From the shoot to the impression, through work on negative or the screen every Zimbardo's work is as accomplished as a dance on your optic nerve. Always with a need to dive his focal, mental, libidinal objective beyond visible, inviting our gaze to bear on the side of the wandering soul of things, living and worlds. That earned him the title of shaman photographer.



Xavier Zimbardo. Le génie des apparitions (The apparitions' genius)
Exhibition from November 29th, 2007 to January 10th, 2008

Albert Benamou Gallerie
www.benamou.net
24, rue de Penthièvre
75008 Paris
Tel : 01 45 63 12 21
Fax : 01 45 63 22 11
18h-21h

Email : albertbenamou@gmail.com

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Fantasy - What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ?
Opening Saturday Novembre 24th at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire

Opening Saturday Novembre 24th, 2007 from 3pm to 9 pm

The English term "Fantasy", which means both fantasy and the fantastic, serves as a guide to the exhibition What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ?
From November 24 to January 19, at the Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris.

Erotical object and advetising privileged target, the child is often represented in contemporary art including photography and video. Adults (author or spectators of the image) have a tender and terrible glance to his World: sometimes seen as a double or a radical self, a mysterious being sometime hostile and cruel, nevertheless fragile and vulnerable, the child lives in a perfect or fantasy world where adults are projecting their fantasies.

The childlike universe, lures associated with an idyllic, fantastic or nightmarish virtuality, ideally takes shape in a fairy tale aesthetic. It is often referred to as a kind of lost Eden where fears and dangers, monsters and evil are hiding behind a prettiness display. It is that phantasmagoria that can be found in popular images.
In the latter, contemporary artists are allusively contributing while building on psychoanalysis and the contribution both cultural and technical of the photographic and film medium. If the works refer frequently and ambivalentely to the joys and anxieties related to the impulses of childhood - a time when dream / nightmare and reality are blending - affirmed staging, apparent or exaggerated digital manipulation are emerging as forms of symbolic resistance to the projections of desires and fears from adults and the roles they wish these childish figures will play.

The title of the exhibition at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire: "What ever happened to your dreams?" is a direct reference to the 1960's Henry Farrell book adapted for the movies by Robert Aldrich in 1962, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" It introduces the concepts of fantasy and duality between romance and terror, between purity and evil, embodied in the film by an aging Bette Davis locked in her child's wishes and lust for eternal youth, struggling with the perversity of Joan Crawford. This exhibition will put the emphasis on pieces illustrating the loss and the overwhelming desire for adults to preserve their dreams.

Fantasy - What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ?
from 24-11-2007 to 12-01-2008
Elke Boon, Maïder Fortuné, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Ellen Kooi, Mireille Loup,
Marie-France et Patricia Martin, Wendy McMurdo, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Santeri Tuori

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
Galerie les filles du calvaire
17, rue des Filles-du-calvaire
75003 Paris
Open from tuesday to saturday from 11:00 AM to 06:30 PM

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November 08, 2007

PARIS PHOTO OR THE EYE OF THE WORLD
Opening Nov. 14th - 19h to 22h (by invitation only) at the Carrousel du Louvre

Paris Photo

Over the decade since it first began, Paris Photo has won recognition as the world's premier fair for still photography.This unique event offers a deep and broad view of the medium, with the best of fine art photography from the earliest days until now and a forward-looking survey of what's happening in this art form today.

Paris Photo is organizing its eleventh edition determined to maintain its standards of excellence and its support for photography in all its diversity. From November 15th through November 18th, 2007 it will bring together some hundred galleries and publishers from the world over.With its exhibitions, book signings, prize award ceremonies and lectures, during those five days Paris Photo will be the eye of the world.

Paris Photo


Between exhibitions, meetings, books autographs, award ceremonies and conferences, Paris Photo will be for five days the eyes of the world.

PARIS PHOTO OR THE EYE OF THE WORLD
http://www.parisphoto.fr
From 15th to 18th November 2007

Opening Nov. 14th, 2007 07pm to 10pm (by invitation only)

Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Opening Hours: 11 am to 08pm / professional Afternoon: November 14th 04pm - 07pm
Entrance fee : 15 euro - students / group: 7.5 euros

Dates 15 and November 17 11am-08pm
Nov. 16 De 11am to 09pm
Nov. 18 De 11am - 07pm (tickets booth closing at 06pm)
Professional Afternoon : November 14th 04pm - 07pm

Metro: Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre lines 1 and 7
Buses 21, 27, 39, 81, 95 station Palais Royal
Velib ': stand 1011, 1010, 1025, 1012
Car Park: Carrousel du Louvre from the Quai des Tuileries, Rue de Rivoli and the Pont Royal


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October 29, 2007

Lumen18
Opening october 31st, 2007 - 07:00pm
Benjamin Josset, David Cousin-Marsy, Emilie Juillet

The exhibition "Lumen 18", presented at the CANOPY SPACE, offers 3 visions about the relationship an individual/Photographers keeps up with his/her environment.

With his "Already-made" series, David Cousin-Marsy reveals, through his gaze, unexpected art objects in an over-urban, bland and lonely world and pimp up our ordinary view. This very same urban environment is the setting to a walking dream by Benjamin Josset, who makes associations in his series "Rencontre" (Encounters). Emilie Juillet as for her, set up an inventory of emotion trigged by her environment. She collect faces, details, moments which become as many "Human Nature(s)". Those 3 photographers share with us the light they see in our surrounding world.


Collective exhibition of contemporary photographs
With Benjamin Josset / Emilie Juillet / David Cousin-Marsy
from october 31st to November 25th, 2007

Opening Wednesday, october 31st, 2007 - 07:00pm

Espace Canopy
www.labelette.info
19, rue Pajol. 75018 Paris
Metro: La Chapelle
Wedenesday/Thursday/Friday from 03:00pm to 07:00pm
Saturday 02:00pm - 08:00pm / Sunday 02:00pm - 07:00pm

Press Contact: Charlotte at +33(0)6 88 31 18 94
Contacts: +33(0)6 06 722 667

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October 24, 2007

G A O B R O T H E R S
vernissage on Wednesday October 24th,2007 @ Albert Benamou Gallerie

Photographs - Sculptures
Exhibition from October 25th to Thursday November 24th, 2007
Preview - Vernissage on Wednesday October 24th,2007 from 06:00pm to 09:00pm


For more than 20 years, the Gao Brothers - Gao Zhen & Gao Qiang ) team up to form a brilliant artistic couple which work is attempting to describe all over mutating China's paradoxes. Born in Jinan, in the province of Shandong, located in the north of China, both of them studied Art and together, they produce for the international an ensemble of virtuoso multimedia including video, photography, theatre, performance, painting and sculpture not to mention numerous critical essays and their mentoring of other artist's exhibitions.
True leaders, and despite repeated censorship from their fellow authorities, their are the over conscious observers of all transformations and turmoil happening in their country.

The Gao brothers stay away from any judgement or form of cynism. They watch mankind like scientist stare at viruses through a microscope. They reproduce human behaviours with a touch of choregraphy.

Galerie Albert Benamou
www.benamou.net
24 rue de Penthièvre. 75008 Paris
Metro: Miromesnil
Opening hours 06:00pm - 09:00pm
Tel: 01 45 63 12 21
Email: albertbenamou@gmail.com

Free entrance
The exhibition will be presented until november 24th,2007.