WANAFOTO: 10/2012

30/10/12

Exposition I Went, Musée Guimet, 2012-2013

Exposition I Went
Oeuvres du Centre national des arts plastiques
Musée Guimet, Paris
3 octobre 2012 - 28 janvier 2013

Instaurant un dialogue entre une dizaine d’artistes de renommée internationale, d’origine occidentale et asiatique, dont les oeuvres ont été choisies parmi les collections du CNAP et les collections patrimoniales du musée Guimet, l'exposition I Went au musée Guimet à Paris est centrée sur une déambulation méditative. Werner Bischof (photographie ci-dessous), Christian Boltanski, Jean Clareboudt, Philippe De Gobert, Helmut Federle, Marie-Ange Guilleminot (dont l'oeuvre Tsuru, origami, papier, est représentée sur l'affiche de l'exposition reproduite ci-dessus), Hans Hartung, On Kawara, Rei Naito, Pascal Pinaud, Ian Stallard & Patrik Fredrikson et Xavier Veilhan présentent leurs visions et inspirations respectives de l’Asie dans tous les domaines de la création (photographie, design, vidéo, installation, et sculpture...).

WERNER BISCHOF, A pleasant sleeping. Island of Kau Sai, 1952

Epreuve gélatino-argentique 40,1 x 50,5 cm

Centre national des arts plastiques

FNAC 03-1243

Le photojournaliste suisse Werner Bischof (Zurich, 1916-1954, Pérou) rejoint l'agence Magnum en 1949. L'exposition présente quatre de ses photographies réalisées au Japon en 1951 et 1952 qui rendent bien compte de son intérêt pour ce pays et la culture japonaise dont le bouddhisme. Ses photographies sont un parfait exemple du dépassement du débat entre photographie documentaire et photographie d'art.

Les oeuvres présentées, loin de la copie ou du réemploi, témoignent d’une relecture des traditions asiatiques avec toujours la même fascination pour le sacré, l’absolu, les philosophies, les religions et les voyages. Ces déambulations méditatives prennent place essentiellement au sein des collections japonaises du musée Guimet et entraînent vers le geste et la calligraphie, l'architecture et les volumes, les rituels et le souvenir.

La disposition des oeuvres contemporaines au sein des collections anciennes créent ainsi des espaces de compréhension dans une approche toujours multiple. Les carnets de voyage de Jean Clareboudt en sont de merveilleux exemples exprimant la sensibilité d’un artiste dans sa rencontre avec l’inconnu et la découverte de ce qui constitue une civilisation. Ils permettent de suivre, au quotidien, l’intuition spontanée d’un artiste.

La compréhension, la transmission et l’échange des techniques représentent également une source d’inspiration jusqu’à se métamorphoser en geste pictural, comme dans l’oeuvre de Hans Hartung. Ces grands pastels expriment la force et l’implication de l’artiste tout autant que sa compréhension de la calligraphie.

La déambulation méditative, la circulation comme geste artistique est incarnée quand à elle par le travail de l’artiste On Kawara, « I went », qui durant dix années entre 1968 et 1979, a inscrit ses déplacements journaliers sur les cartes des villes qu’il traversa. Le marquage en rouge sur les plans urbains attestent de la présence physique de l’artiste de façon systématique et presque rituelle.

REI NAITO, Pillow for the Dead, 1999

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain n° 99589

L’artiste japonaise Rei Naito, avec l’oeuvre Pillow for the Dead (photo ci-dessus) poursuit cette recherche contemplative. Ces « oreillers pour les morts » en organza illustrent de façon précieuse et fragile le dernier voyage et la tradition ancestrale de l’accompagnement des morts.

La rotonde du 4ème étage du musée Guimet présente l’oeuvre participative de l’artiste française Marie-Ange Guilleminot : « Le salon de transformation blanc ». Cet espace offre au public un lieu de rencontre en l’invitant à réaliser des Tsuru, pliages en forme de grues. A travers ces gestes simples, Marie Ange Guillememinot convie au recueillement et au souvenir des enfants morts lors de la catastrophe d’Hiroshima.

Commissariat de l'exposition :
Caroline Arhuero, responsable de l’art contemporain au Musée Guimet
Sébastien Faucon, responsable des collections arts plastiques au CNAP

Musée des Arts Asiatiques Guimet
6, place d’Iéna - 75116 Paris
Site internet du musée : www.guimet.fr
Site internet du Centre national des arts plastiques : www.cnap.fr

25/10/12

Photographer Mario Testino Exhibition MFA, Boston

Mario Testino: In Your Face and British Royal Portraits
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mario Testino: In Your Face, through February 3, 2013
Mario Testino: British Royal Portraits, through June 16, 2013

Mario Testino’s compelling fashion and celebrity photographs have appeared in international magazines and advertising campaigns for leading fashion houses for the past three decades. Beginning October 21, the man behind the camera that has captured countless iconic images for Vogue and Vanity Fair is featured in two exhibitions of his work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)—Mario Testino: In Your Face and British Royal Portraits.

Kate Moss, London, 2006 © Mario Testino

Photo Courtesy of the artist and MFA, Boston

Mario Testino: In Your Face showcases 122 images by the photographer, known for works that evoke elegance, beauty, style, irreverence, and contradiction. The range and quality of Testino’s career is illustrated in photographs of international superstars, such as models Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, and Gisele Bündchen; actors Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow; musicians Mick Jagger, Madonna, and Lady Gaga; and athletes David Beckham and Tom Brady. Mario Testino: British Royal Portraits focuses on the portraits he has taken of generations of the British royal family. Mario Testino has personally chosen the works for these exhibitions. The photographs on view offer a retrospective of his prolific career, which began shortly after Testino’s arrival in London from his native Peru in 1976. In Your Face draws upon thousands of exquisitely styled images that document his creative journey in pursuit—and in celebration—of beauty. Mario Testino’s photographs are bold, graphic, and “in your face.” The exhibition illustrates fashion, elegance, sex, and nudity, reflecting the photographer’s unique aesthetic and stylistic range. “I am honored to be invited by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to exhibit my work in these two exhibitions, my first in the United States,” said Mario Testino. “These exhibitions are a very personal reflection of the past 30 years in which I have been a photographer.”

Mario Testino

Photo Courtesy MFA, Boston

In Your Face provides access to Mario Testino’s world—from models, movie stars, and musicians, to a host of glitterati. At the entrance to the Gund Gallery, a wall of 16 screens offers behind-the-scenes video of the globetrotting photographer. In addition, visitors to the exhibition can experience Mario Testino in action and recalling career-defining moments on the Museum’s hand-held multimedia guide, which features audio and video selections relating to works in the exhibitions. Among the many famous faces on view are Jennifer Lopez, Keith Richards, Kate Winslet, and Ashton Kutcher. Styled portraits are juxtaposed with candid private party snapshots, nudes with fashion, black-and-white with color, and interiors with exterior settings. These arrangements capture the interplay of mass media, celebrity, and glamour, showcased in an installation that offers the observer a more intimate connection with the works. The photographs, many of them printed on aluminum, rest on shelves running the length of the teal-colored Gund Gallery. Images vary in size, ranging from monumental color prints (8’x6’) to intimately sized (1’x2’) black-and-white snapshots.

“The MFA’s relationship with Mario Testino began when he came to the Museum in 2010 to participate in the Karsh photography lecture series” said Anne Havinga, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the MFA. “These two exhibitions are the result of a wonderful collaboration between Mario and the Museum, and reveal the artist’s perspective on the popular culture of our time.”

Mario Testino is highly regarded for the photographs of British royalty he has been commissioned to take throughout his career, and he has chosen his personal favorites for the exhibition British Royal Portraits. “I have been so fortunate to have documented key moments in the lives of the British royal family. I have always been inspired by their sense of tradition and duty—it is always a huge honor for me to photograph them and I am delighted that many of these pictures will be on display, together for the first time, in the Herb Ritts gallery at the MFA,” said Mario Testino.

TRH The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, London, 2010

Photo Courtesy of the artist and MFA, Boston

British Royal Portraits is the first US showing of the 2010 engagement portraits Testino was commissioned to take of Prince William and Kate Middleton, now TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Also on view is the iconic and elegant black-and-white portrait he took of Diana, Princess of Wales, which first appeared in Vanity Fair magazine in 1997 and was her last official sitting before her death that year. The framed images of the royals—many measuring approximately 3’ x 4‘—are shown against royal blue walls. They range from a snapshot of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to informal black-and-white images of Prince Charles with his sons William and Harry. Also on view is the first picture Mario Testino took of members of the House of Windsor a few years after arriving in London from Peru. The photographer snapped an impromptu black-and-white shot of The Queen Mother and her grandson, Prince Edward, as they passed by crowds gathered in London’s streets to celebrate the marriage of HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Since then, Mario Testino has become a preferred photographer of the royal family.

To complement the exhibition Mario Testino: In Your Face, a variety of publications, limited-edition prints by Mario Testino, designer jewelry, and select fashions are being offered in the MFA Bookstore and Shop. The 223-page publication Mario Testino: In Your Face (Taschen, 2012) features 122 black-and-white and color images taken by Testino from 1993 through 2012 and includes contributions by Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of Vogue; Jennifer Allen, editor of the contemporary art and culture magazine, frieze d/e; and Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA. Other Testino books on sale include MaRio de Janeiro Testino (Tashen, 2009), and Kate Moss by Mario Testino (Taschen, 2011), as well as limited editions of Visionarie No. 46: Uncensored (Visionaire, 2005), a book edited by Testino highlighting the work of various artists on the theme of sex. Additionally, the shop is offering four limited-edition prints signed by Testino featuring images of models Kate Moss, Carmen Kass, and Natalia Vodianova, and actress Sienna Miller.

These exhibitions, his first in the United States, are co-sponsored by Stuart Weitzman and Swarovski. Additional support for Mario Testino: British Royal Portraits is provided by British Airways.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum's website: www.mfa.org

22/10/12

20th century iconic art works at High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
October 13, 2012 - January 20, 2013

In the exhibition Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, is explorin the development of modern and contemporary art by selecting key years in art history that represent watershed moments in the 20th century.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923-1997), Girl with Ball, 1961

Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 60¼ x 36¼ inches (153 x 91.9 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Philip Johnson, 421.1981

The exhibition presents approximately 100 works of art created during the years 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988, as well as the art of today. The exhibition examines the years prior to the start of World War I and the Great Depression, the lead-up to postwar American prosperity and the years preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall and how artists responded to and were influenced by events on the world stage.

The exhibition also presents the works of contemporary artists Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse, and Sarah Sze, whose work extends themes first explored in the 20th century and updates them for the 21st century.

Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013 is one of the largest surveys of 20th-century art to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), as part of the two museums’ ongoing collaboration, the exhibition is on view since October 13, 2012, through January 20, 2013.

“These periods of time ushered in new ways of thinking that forever transformed the artistic landscapes,” said Michael E. Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director. “We’re delighted that this partnership with MoMA will enable our visitors to see how the work of artists from different eras was influenced by major historical events.”

The exhibition includes iconic works from each represented year, including:

· 1913: Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

· 1929: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist painting Illumined Pleasures

· 1950: Willem de Kooning’s landmark of Abstract Expressionism, Woman, I

· 1961: Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop art masterpiece Girl With Ball

· 1988: Jeff Koons’s famed porcelain sculpture Pink Panther

Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, has chosen Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse and Sarah Sze to highlight the art of 2013. Sarah Sze, who will represent the United States in the 2013 Venice Biennale, created a site-specific installation for the High. Aaron Curry debuts three new works—monumental, polychromed steel sculptures titled “Boo,” “Thing” and “Deadhead”—which are installed on the Museum’s lawn. Rounding out the selection, a large three-dimensional painting by Katharina Grosse are on display on the skyway level of the Wieland Pavilion.

“Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse, and Sarah Sze are artists who push the boundaries of artistic practice,” said Rooks. “Each is known for their conceptually open-ended and physically immersive works that invite viewers to walk through and around them. In the process of physically exploring these works, viewers draw out the present moment, stretching time toward moments yet to come.”

AARON CURRY (born 1972), on view through May 2013

Originally trained as a painter, Aaron Curry turned to sculpture while he was an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he first became interested in the flat planes that characterized the work of David Smith and Isamu Noguchi. Aaron Curry’s interplay between two and three dimensions encourages viewers to walk around his work, creating new lines of sight as planes of color rotate into nothingness. In his own words, his sculptures are “almost like a cubist painting . . . [they] refer to the surface but give you illusion at the same time. It’s an awkward space that I still find rather exciting to play with.” Since earning his M.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he has exhibited in dozens of group shows throughout the United States and Europe as well as solo shows in Los Angeles, Berlin, London and New York. In 2010, Aaron Curry received a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, an experience that culminated in an exhibition at the Schinkel Pavilion in early 2011. His work has been praised by critics Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith, the latter of whom proclaimed Curry’s work to be “physically inventive and sculpturally inclined.”

KATHARINA GROSSE (born 1961), on view through January 20, 2013

The Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse’s distinctive approach to painting and installation is characterized by the simultaneous expansion and elimination of boundaries for painting, “Abstract Expressionism opened up new ways to look at painting, but it also hindered, to a certain extent, painting’s development. Negating painting’s illusionism narrowed it down to applying paint to a flat surface. I have a totally different approach. I don’t think that a painting is a coherent, closed system that only takes place within its borders.” Her works challenge traditional notions of painting and architectural space and invite viewers to confront their spatial boundaries. Katharina Grosse resists identification with specific media, historical movements or other affiliations, preferring instead to remain as uninhibited as possible. Since 1996 she has exhibited in more than 30 solo shows and several dozen group shows in galleries and museums across the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Tate St. Ives in England, the Museum for New Art in Freiburg, Germany, and Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark (Wanafoto has published a post about this exhibition with pictures of Katharina Grosse artworks). In 2011 she installed her monumental installation “One Floor up More Highly” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which received critical praise, including the article, “Chromatic Theater,” published in Art in America. In addition to her artistic practice, Katharina Grosse is currently a professor of fine arts at the Arts Academy of Dusseldorf.

SARAH SZE (born 1969), on view through January 20, 2013

Educated at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts, New York, Sarah Sze has emerged as one of the foremost installation artists of her generation. Best known for her elaborate and gravity-defying installations—microcosmic spaces of dizzying complexity—her work often seems to be a three-dimensional collage in which the placement of every object holds meaning both outside the work and within it. Her coupling of familiar objects—towels, chairs, ladders, for exmaple—with ones that are less immediately identifiable provokes the viewer to create rich associations between otherwise unrelated items. Over the last fifteen years, she has shown in group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Monographic exhibitions of her work have been organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Whitney; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. Her permanent installations are on display at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkley. Sarah Sze has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the Atelier Calder prize and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and most recently she has been selected to represent the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sarah Sze lives and works in New York City.

Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013 continues a multi-year, multi-exhibition collaboration between the High and MoMA, which began in 2009 with “Monet Water Lilies,” the first in a series of six exhibitions, followed by “Modern by Design” in summer 2011 and “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters,”. The initiative builds on successful past collaborations between the High and MoMA that resulted in four exhibitions presented in Atlanta between 1997 and 2000. This project extends ties between the institutions through professional exchanges, development of educational programs and publications and reciprocal admission benefits.

This exhibition is organized by Jodi Hauptman, MoMA Curator of Drawings, and Samantha Friedman, MoMA Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings, in collaboration with David Brenneman, the High’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, and Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013 is accompanied by a fully illustrated

catalogue.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Museum's website: www.high.org

Expo Photo La Jeune Fille dans la ville, Collection photographique agnès b. au Salon de la Photo 2012

La Jeune Fille dans la Ville
Collection photographique d’agnès b. au Salon de la Photo 2012, Paris
8 - 12 novembre 2012

La collection photographique d’agnès b. est réputée, composée à la fois de signatures prestigieuses et de talents nouveaux soutenus par la styliste qui est également mécène et galeriste. Le Salon de la Photo, partenaire du Mois de la Photographie 2012, lui rend hommage à travers une sélection d’œuvres qu’Agnès Troublé, dite agnès b., a choisies sur le thème de « La jeune fille dans la ville ».

DIANE ARBUS

Two girls in matching bathing sits.

Coney Island, NY, 1967

Une soixantaine de photographies, courant du début du 20e siècle à aujourd’hui et confrontant des œuvres de Brassaï, Walter Evans, Diane Arbus, ou encore Martin Parr, Martine Barrat,… pour ne citer très arbitrairement que quelques noms parmi les dizaines exposés, les autres n’étant pas de moindre importance ou notoriété ! Et s’il faut résumer de A à Z, ce sera de l’Américaine Berenice Abbott à l’Italien Franco Zecchin.

STEVE HIETT

Cecelia. Thanksgiving.

West Side Highway, New York, 1993

« Les photos qui composent ma collection - si c’en est une - racontent un peu l’histoire de ma relation à la photographie et sans doute aussi, en partie, l’évolution de celle-ci. Je crois que c’est le travail de Henri Cartier-Bresson qui le premier m’a fait prendre conscience de tout ce qui pourrait être dit par ce médium. A partir de là, j’ai appris la photographie, avec gourmandise. J’ai avec elle une relation intime, très suivie, très exigeante ; mon cheminement et mes choix se font sans complaisance. Je suis heureuse d’observer son évolution, de la voir se diversifier à toute vitesse.» -- Agnès b.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Chez Lipp, Paris, 1968

En outre, le Salon de la Photo a offert un don au Fonds de Dotation agnès b. pour la photographie, qui l’a attribué à deux de ses découvertes : Amélie Debray et Marion Poussier qui auront, chacune, une photo exposée au Salon de la Photo.

Site web du Salon de la Photo :

www.lesalondelaphoto.com

21/10/12

Anish Kapoor: Flashback, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

Anish Kapoor: Flashback
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Through 4 November 2012

Anish Kapoor, White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers, 1982

Wood, cement and pigment

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

Flashback is a major series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre. Taking as its starting point the Collection’s founding principle of supporting emerging artists through the purchase of their work, the series showcases internationally renowned British artists whose works have been acquired by the Collection. The monographic exhibitions combine works from the Collection with new pieces borrowed directly from the artists, giving a unique insight into the evolution of these key figures in British art. Following on from the success of the first Flashback exhibition of work by Bridget Riley, the second artist in the series of monographic exhibitions is renowned artist and Turner Prize winner, Anish Kapoor.

Anish Kapoor, Longside Gallery.

Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Photo © Jonty Wilde

Anish Kapoor’s sensual and beguiling sculptures are created using a range of materials including pigment, stone, polished stainless steel and wax. Following on from the critical acclaim of his show at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2009, this Flashback exhibition gives an opportunity to explore Kapoor’s earlier works alongside recent pieces lent directly by the artist. The exhibition includes a selection of major sculptures on loan from UK collections, and from the Arts Council Collection. This is the first survey of Kapoor's work to be held in the UK, outside of London.

Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 1995

Stainless steel

Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London.

Acquired with the assistance from The Henry Moore Foundation, 1998

The show is selected by the artist in close dialogue with the Arts Council Collection and includes works such as White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers (1982) which demonstrates Kapoor’s early interest in applying raw pigment to a range of organic forms. The sculpture was acquired by the Arts Council Collection the same year and has been lent to many major institutions as a key example of his early work. Alongside this, the optically illusionary Untitled (1997-98) is a highlypolished stainless steel void embedded into the wall that draws the viewer into a seemingly bottomless reflection and is emblematic of the seamless mirrored forms that have made Kapoor a household name. The exhibition includes the large-scale installation Her Blood (1998) shown for the first time in the UK.

Anish Kapoor, Red in the Centre, 1982

Photo © Jonty Wilde - Courtesy of YSP

Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 1983

Photo © Jonty Wilde - Courtesy of YSP

The exhibition is toured by Hayward Touring Exhibitions. It was seen at Manchester Art Gallery (5 March - 5 June 2011) before touring to the Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh Festival, Summer 2011), Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery (19 November 2011 - 11 March 2012) and Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (16 June - 4 November 2012).

Anish Kapoor: Flashback - An illustrated exhibition catalogue was published, including an essay by Michael Bracewell and an interview with Anish Kapoor by Andrew Renton.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4LG
Yorkshire Sculpture Park's website: www.ysp.co.uk
The Arts Council Collection's website: www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk

Sharon Lockhart, Jewish Museum, NYC, 2012-2013

Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol
The Jewish Museum, New York City
November 2, 2012 - March 24, 2013

The Jewish Museum in New York City presents Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, the US East Coast premiere of Sharon Lockhart’s latest body of work, from November 2, 2012 through March 24, 2013. In this exhibition, co-organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Sharon Lockhart engages the legacy of Noa Eshkol, the Israeli dance composer, theorist, and textile artist who created an innovative notation system that describes virtually every perceptible movement of the body. Conceived by Lockhart as a two-person exhibition, Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol consists of a new, large-scale, five-channel film installation, series of photographs and architectural interventions by Lockhart, and a selection of Eshkol’s carpets, scores, and archival drawings.

This exhibition opened at the Israel Museum in December 2011 and subsequently was shown at LACMA. Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol was organized by Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art, and Britt Salvesen, Curator of Photography, both at LACMA; and by Talia Amar, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum. Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum, is coordinating the New York presentation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST SHARON LOCKART

Since the 1990s, internationally renowned Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart has captured specific moments from the everyday life of a wide range of communities through photography and film, including a girls’ basketball team in a Tokyo suburb for Goshogaoka (1997), young children in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada for Pine Flat (2006), and factory workers in Maine for Lunch Break (2008). Lockhart’s in-depth exploration of her subjects allows her to discern and distill their day-to-day rhythms and routines. It was during a research trip to Israel in 2008 that she first encountered the work of Israeli artist Noa Eshkol (1924-2007). In the 1950s, together with architect Avraham Wachman, Eshkol developed a wholly original movement notation system known as the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN), which uses symbols and numbers to express the spatial relationships between the parts of the body. Eshkol devoted her life to perfecting the system, which has been applied across a broad range of research fields. Because she preferred to work in relative isolation and without concern for public acclaim, Eshkol’s work in modern dance is little known outside of Israel. Drawn to the parallels between Eshkol’s theories and her own lines of interest—including stasis and motion in still and moving images, postmodern dance and Minimalism—Lockhart began working with the dancers and individuals who continue to preserve Eshkol’s legacy today.

SHARON LOCKART | NOA ESHKOL: EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Presented on the first and third floors of The Jewish Museum, Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol explores aspects of Eshkol’s extraordinary practice through several mediums. For the five-channel installation Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol (2011), Lockhart filmed seven dancers in various combinations performing five compositions by Eshkol, each set against a selection of Eshkol’s “wall carpets,” or textile works. The concepts behind Eshkol’s dances are illustrated by spherical models made of wire and mesh, which Eshkol constructed as a teaching aid for the notation method. A series of still photographs by Lockhart documents these objects and conveys the logic of movement they are meant to illustrate in groupings of two to five prints. The film installation and photographic series are accompanied by a selection of documents, notes, and drawings from Eshkol’s archive, shedding light on particular aspects of her creative process.

In the exhibition’s final gallery on the Museum’s third floor, Lockhart is installing two vibrant examples of Eshkol’s work as a textile artist. The “wall carpets,” as Eshkol called them, were assembled without cutting any new material, using only found scraps of fabric. The dancers participated by sorting the scraps and sewing the final arrangements. Eventually some 500 wall carpets were created, representing a substantial aspect of Eshkol’s oeuvre. Lockhart’s five-channel film marks the first occasion in which Eshkol’s work in movement and textiles is brought together.

The exhibition creates an encounter between the two artists that explores the nature of artistic practice, its preservation, and its interpretation, as well as the experience and representation of space, time, and movement. The architectural components and site-specific intervention were designed in collaboration with Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena of Escher GuneWardena Architecture, Los Angeles, who have contributed to Lockhart’s exhibitions and film installations since 2000. Dane Davis and composer Becky Allen worked with Lockhart to create the film installation’s soundtrack. The dancers featured in the film installation are active members of the Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation in Holon, Israel, an organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of Noa Eshkol.

SHARON LOCKART | NOA ESHKOL: EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, co-published by LACMA, the Israel Museum, and DelMonico Books/Prestel. Contents include essays by Talia Amar, Stephanie Barron and Britt Salvesen, Eva Diaz, and Michal Shoshani, and interviews with Eshkol’s dancers as well as between Lockhart and Sabine Eckmann.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Leadership support for The Jewish Museum presentation is provided by the Estate of Lyn Barris. Initial support for Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol was provided by The Tel Aviv / Los Angeles Partnership – a collaborative project of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Jewish Agency for Israel; and The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation, Los Angeles.

Jewish Museum, NYC, Website: www.thejewishmuseum.org

20/10/12

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 - Shortlist Selections

Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 Shortlist Selections

The thirty photobooks shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2012 were announced in The PhotoBook Review 003, Aperture’s biannual publication dedicated to the consideration of the photobook.

In November 2011, Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation joined forces for The Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, celebrating the book’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography. This year, the Awards focused on two major categories: First PhotoBook and PhotoBook of the Year.

The initial selection was made by Phillip Block, Deputy Director of Programs and Director of Education at the International Center of Photography; Chris Boot, Executive Director of Aperture Foundation; Julien Frydman, Director of Paris Photo; Lesley A. Martin, Publisher at Aperture Foundation; and James Wellford, senior international photo editor at Newsweek magazine. The selected photobooks will be exhibited at Paris Photo at the Grand Palais and at Aperture Gallery in New York; and will tour to other venues, to be determined.

A final jury in Paris, including Els Barents, Director of the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography; Roxana Marcoci, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Curator of the Paris Photo 2012 Platform; Edward Robinson, Associate Curator of Photography at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Thomas Seelig, Curator of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Timothy Prus, Curator of AMC Books, will select the winners for both prizes, which will be revealed at the opening of Paris Photo on November 15, 2012. The winner of First PhotoBook of the year will be awarded $10,000.

Paris Photo is a leading international fair dedicated to nineteenth century, modernist, and contemporary photography. Held for the first time at the Grand Palais in 2011, Paris Photo will gather 127 French and international galleries from twenty-two countries, in November 2012. To complete this panorama of worldwide photography, a selection of twenty-three publishers and international specialized dealers will have a dedicated space at the fair. The fair welcomes 50,000 enthusiasts and photography collectors from all over the world. Paris Photo will launch Paris Photo Los Angeles at the Picture Paramount Studios on April 24–28, 2013.

Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture today is a multiplatform publisher and center for the photo community. From its base in New York, Aperture produces, publishes, and presents a program of photography projects, locally and internationally.

The ten shortlisted titles for the 2012 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year are:

History Repeating

Photographer: Ori Gersht

Publisher: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Texts by Al Miner (assistant curator, Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Yoav Rinon (professor of Comparative Literature at Hebrew University, Jerusalem), interview with the artist by Ronni Baer (William and Ann Elfers Senior Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Image Courtesy MFA, Boston

Retinal Shift

Photographer: Mikhael Subotzky

Publisher: Steidl

“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the very strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” Mikhael Subotzky

Edited by Ivan Vladislavic, book design by Michael Aberman and Emmet Byrne, 300 pages, 250 colour plates, 19 cm x 26 cm, clothbound hardcover. Retinal Shift is the first printed retrospective of Mikhael Subotzky's work. Image Courtesy Steidl.

Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town and is currently based in Johannesburg. The photographer is a member of the Magnum agency. Recent and upcoming Mikhael Subotzky's exhibitions: Grahamstown National Arts Festival, 28 June - 8 July 2012; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, 25 July - 5 September 2012; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, 20 September to 11 November 2012; IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 28 November 2012 to 9 January 2013; Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Bloemfontein, 27 February to 29 March 2013; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 15 April to 23 April 2013 (Mikhael Subotzky was the winner of the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art) ; University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom, 27 June to 2 August 2013.

Rachael, Monique
Photographer: Sophie Calle
Publisher: Xavier Barral

(based on a true story)
Photographer: David Alan Harvey
Publisher: Burn Books

City Diary
Photographer: Anders Peterson
Publisher: Steidl

Book of Books

Photographer: Stephen Shore

Publisher: Phaidon

A landmark two volume limited edition collection of work by one of the world's greatest photographers. Image Courtesy Phaidon

Two Thousand Light Years From Home
Photographer: Pietro Mattioli
Publisher: Kodoji Press

Table of Power 2
Photographer: Jacqueline Hassink
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

She
Photographer: Lise Sarfati
Publisher: Twin Palms

A Head with Wings
Photographer: Anouk Kruithof
Publisher: Little Brown Mushroom

The twenty shortlisted titles for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook are:

Uncle Charlie
Photographer: Marc Asnin
Publisher: Contrasto

Afronauts
Photographer: Cristina De Middel
Publisher: Cristina De Middel

Concresco
Photographer: David Galjaard
Text: Slavenka Drakulić and Jaap Scholten
Publisher: David Galjaard

Summer Weather
Photographer: Michael Jang
Publisher: Owl and Tiger

Watching
Photographer: N&D
Publisher: Random Number 11

Jeddah Diary
Photographer: Olivia Arthur
Publisher: Fishbar

Metsästä, From the Woods
Photographer: Anne Golaz
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

Sans titre, M. Bertillon
Photographer: Stéphanie Solinas
Publisher: RVB Books

Cette Montagne, C’est Moi
Photographer: Witho Worms
Publisher: Fw:

The Wrong Side: Living on the Mexican Border
Photographer: Jérôme Sessini
Publisher: Contrasto

Hired Hand
Photographers: Stuart Bailes, Bea Fremderman, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Athena Torri
Publisher: Vandret PublicaMons

Celebrity
Photographer: Kenji Hirasawa
Publisher: Bemojake

Cruising
Photographer: Chad States
Publisher: powerHouse Books

C.E.N.S.U.R.A.
Photographer: Julián Barón
Publisher: Editorial RM

Singular Beauty
Photographer: Cara Phillips
Publisher: Fw:

Dive Dark, Dream Slow
Photographer: Melissa Catanese
Publisher: The Ice Plant

A Natural Order
Photographer: Lucas Foglia
Publisher: Nazraeli Press

Interrogations
Photographer: Donald Weber
Publisher: Schilt

7 Rooms
Photographer: Rafal Milach
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Treemedia

Ama
Photographer: Nina Poppe
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag

In addition to the prize and the exhibitions of shortlisted books, Paris Photo at the Grand Palais in Paris will also host the exhibition Livre ouvert, featuring prints of Bernd and Hilla Becher, presented alongside the works from the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher-Printed Materials, 1964-2012. As always, the fair will dedicate a space to publishers and specialist booksellers, and present newly listed titles, old and rare books, as well as limited editions. Numerous signing sessions with photographers are organized during the five-day event.

Publishers Attending Paris Photo 2012

AKAAKA Japan
APERTURE United States
ANTICUARIA POEMA 20 Argentina
BOOKSHOP M Japan
CHLOE ET DENIS OZANNE France
CONTRASTO Italy
DIRK K. BAKKER BOEKEN Netherlands
FILIGRANES France
FLORENCE LOEWY France
HARPER’S BOOKS United States
HATJE CANTZ Germany
IRVING ZUCKER ART BOOKS United States
KEHRER VERLAG Germany
LES EDITIONS DE L’ŒIL France
LIBRAIRIE 213 France
MACK United Kingdom
MICHAEL SEKSIK France
OLIVER J WOOD United Kingdom
ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY Germany
RM Mexico
STEIDL Germany
TISSATO NAKAHARA France
XAVIER BARRAL France

Paris Photo
Thursday, November 15 - Sunday, November 18, 2012
Grand Palais - Avenue Winston-Churchill - Paris
Website: www.parisphoto.com
Aperture Foudation Website: www.aperture.org

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Paris Photo 2012, Grand Palais, Paris

PARIS PHOTO 2012

Grand Palais, Paris

15 -18 novembre 2012

Pour sa 16ème édition - Paris Photo accueillera en novembre sous la nef du Grand Palais 140 exposants provenant de 23 pays, et propose à nouveau cette année une programmation inédite : l’exposition « Acquisitions Récentes » des grandes institutions, l’exposition « Collection Privée », le Prix du livre (Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards), l’exposition « Livre Ouvert » et la Plateforme de débats et d’entretiens.

Cette année Paris Photo accueille sous la nef du Grand Palais 128 galeries et 23 spécialistes du livre de photographie.

L’exposition « Acquisitions récentes » présentera les nouvelles collections photographiques du LACMA (Los Angeles), du Fotomuseum de Winterthur (Suisse) et de Huis Marseille (Amsterdam).

L’exposition « Livre ouvert » mettra à l’honneur les publications (livres et éphémeras) de Bernd & Hilla Becher (quelques photos ici), rendant ainsi compte de l’importance du support imprimé dans la formalisation de leurs typologies. Cette exposition a été organisée par le Musée de l'Elysée à Lausanne. Le visuel officiel de Paris Photo 2012, reproduit ci-dessus, se base sur une des photos classiques du couple de photographes.

La Plateforme proposera 4 jours d’événements live : entretiens, tables rondes et performances sous la direction de Roxana Marcoci, commissaire du département de photographie du MoMA de New York. Hilla Becher, Rem Koolhaas ou David Lynch y prendront la parole.

Enfin, pour la première fois, Paris Photo met en place un parcours inédit au cœur des galeries : « Paris Photo vu par… ». Ce parcours sera confié à une personnalité différente chaque année. En 2012, c’est à David Lynch que Paris Photo confie le soin de faire son choix parmi les œuvres exposées par les galeristes. Le parcours résultant de cette sélection sera identifié dans la Foire et pourra être suivi notamment sur l’application mobile Paris Photo. Une façon originale pour le public de contempler les œuvres tout en découvrant l’univers esthétique de David Lynch.

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Texas Contemporary Art Fair 2012, Houston

La Texas Contemporary Art Fair , foire de l'art contemporain du Texas, rassemble du 18 au 21 octobre 2012 quelque 65 galeries d'art contemporain au George R. Brown Convention Center à Houston. Cette foire de l'art est organisée par artMRKT Productions fondé par Max Fishko et Jeffrey Wainhause, basé à New York, et qui produit également des manifestations artistiques équivalentes à San Francisco, Bridgehampton (New York) et Miami.

Alexandre Trauner - Jacques Prévert : Une oeuvre cinématographique. Vente Binoche et Giquello

Alexandre Trauner - Jacques Prévert : Une oeuvre cinématographique, Correspondances, dessins, maquettes, carnets, photographies, collages, 1932-1976

Binoche et Giquello organise le 24 octobre 2012, à Drouot, une très intéressente vente aux enchères comprenant, notamment, un très riche ensemble de photographies réalisées par Alexandre Trauner (1906-1993). Toutes les épreuves photographiques proposées sont en tirage d’époque.

Alexandre Trauner à Paris dans les années 1970

Tirage argentique en noir et blanc, 260 x 210 mm

Duke Ellington

Portrait du musicien par Alexandre Trauner, 1960

Duke Ellington dans les décors de Trauner.

Paris Blues (Martin Ritt), 13 décembre 1960

Epreuve argentique, 400 x 300 mm, date au crayon au verso.

Partition manuscrite du thème de Paris Blues, signée

Experts - livres, manuscrits, collages : Claude Oterelo
Photographies, décors, maquettes : Serge Plantureux
Courtesy Binoche et Giquello

Exposition privée à l’étude Binoche et Giquello - 5 rue la Boétie - 75008 Paris, du lundi 15 au vendredi 19 octobre 2012 de 14h30 à 18h sur rendez-vous. Exposition publique - Drouot salle 4, mardi 23 octobre de 11h à 18h - mercredi 24 octobre de 11h à 12 h
Site internet : www.binocheetgiquello.com où le catalogue de l'exposition est disponible

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Centenaire de l'Usine Peugeot Sochaux - Photos anciennes de l'exposition qui a été prolongée

PSA fête les 100 ans de l’Usine Peugeot à Sochaux : Photos de l’expo du Centenaire (1912-2012)

Le site de Peugeot Sochaux, premier site industriel de France et symbole de l'industrie automobile, est l'un des plus anciens sites de production automobile au monde toujours en activité. Fondé en 1912 par Peugeot, il célèbre cette année son centenaire. Lors de sa fondation, il était destiné à la production de camions et ce n'est qu'après la Première Guerre Mondiale que l'entreprise a pris la décision d'y concentrer l'ensemble de sa production.

Autour du slogan De notre histoire, nous puiserons notre force, le site de Sochaux célèbre son centenaire notamment à travers une exposition, baptisée M14, l'Expo du siècle, composée, entre autre, de documents photos inédits extraits d'une photothèque de plus d'un million de clichés, dont ce post vous présente quelques exemples, conservés au Centre d'Archives du Groupe de Terre Blanche : l'occasion de se pencher sur l'histoire de ce siècle vue de Sochaux, au travers de thématiques comme l'évolution des conditions de travail, la place des femmes dans l'industrie depuis 1912 ou encore la naissance et le développement d'un véhicule. L'exposition, initialement prévue pour un mois a débutée le 15 septembre. Face au succès rencontrée l'exposition anniversaire du si Sochaux de Peugeot a été prolongée jusqu'au 15 novembre 2012.

Photographie ancienne : Ouvrier professionnel en 1914