Galerìa Patricia Conde, Mexico Photography has a long and glorious tradition in Mexico, which is unsurprising given the particular relationship which this culture entertains with reality; given a context where reality somehow finds extensions in realms of experience which seem to belong elsewhere, in fantasy, among the dead, in quasi-magical patterns of behaviour, in odd…
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Young photography seldom provides examples of a coherence between form and purpose quite as convincing as the work by Thomas Hauser, although it is fair to say that these are still early days to decide if this promise will be held. The purpose is remembrance, and capturing the passage of time which taints the…
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(Article in French here-below / Article en français ci-dessous) Museo del Risorgimento, Torino Are selfies an art form by themselves, part of the wider realm of photography, or a mere manifestation of narcissism and self-consciousness mostly of interest to psychoanalysis ? This question is not going to be answered here. Although a clue may be…
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Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna Bernd Oppl is an Austrian artist born in 1980. He studied at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, and attended the famous WIELS Residency Programme in 2018, among a number of other awards and residencies. Most of his solo exhibitions were in Austria; elements of his work were on…
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Photo London – 2019 If I were to be asked which artists triggered my interest the most at the Photo London art fair this year, I would certainly include Garry Fabian Miller. He is certainly not a discovery, considering that Garry Fabian Miller was born in Bristol in 1957, and that his work is present…
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MAXXI, Rome, 17 April – 30 June 2019 It may seem slightly odd to post an article on Paolo di Paolo, a photographer born in 1925 who never presented himself as an artist, and mostly took pictures of Italian life in the 1950s and 1960s for the well-known current affairs magazine Il Mondo where he…
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Elements for the quest of a perfect non-verbal language Palais de Tokyo, 20 February – 12 May 2019 The Palais de Tokyo presents a number of videos by Angelica Mesiti, an Australian artist born in 1976 who currently works in Paris and Sydney, and whose work is supported in Paris by Galerie Allen. These works…
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Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, until 6 April 2019 It is not so frequent to discover a work, and even less a work based on video, which combines form, substance and genuine novelty, but also which effectively straddles several art forms, such as in the case of the young Belgian artist Ariane Loze, currently showing four…
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Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris, 22 March – 11 May 2019 Galerie DIX9 Hélène Lacharmoise presents until 11th of May Sketch for One Erasable Plot by an interesting young artist, Nemanja Nikolić, who works at the intersection of drawing, cinema and animation. Born in Serbia in 1987, Nemanja Nikolić studied at the Faculty of Fine…
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Sugimoto présente à Versailles une série de portraits photographiques exécutés à partir des portraits en cire, et non des personnes elles-mêmes; portraits de portraits, en apparence. Certaines de ces cires sont des moulages, d’autres des sculptures, de visages d’hommes et de femmes ayant eu quelque lien historique avec le palais. Un abime sépare les photographies…
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