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2010: 2010: Sarah Pickering Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago 2009: A project by CCCS. Scientific Committee: Thursday September 24th 2009 at 7 pm Artists The CCCS' new exhibition explores the theme of the manipulation and reconstruction of reality through photographic images and videos, in the work of 23 international contemporary artists. Photography and video art have always been based on the conflict between recording reality and, at the same time, becoming themselves a falsification of that reality, a viewpoint that builds a particular image of the world. Today, with the spreading popularity of easy-to-use digital technology, that ambiguity has if anything increased, pushing the conflict between appearance and reality to its outer edges. The material on display in this exhibition, entitled Manipulating Reality, is the work of photographers and video-artists who have developed the potential of these new techniques or who reject post-production procedures, sharing the common aim of playing both with the medium's possibilities and with the viewer's expectations, thus creating totally original visions of the world. Exhibition hours A full colour catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibtion www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality/e_index.php Supported by: Regione Toscana, Provincia di Firenze, Comune di Firenze, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Firenze, Associazione Partners Palazzo Strozzi and Moleskine Group Show Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection features the work of nine artists whose work is an exploration of man and the landscape—not landscape in its most literal sense, but landscape as a construction of meanings and relationships that are always morphing, growing, decaying, and exploding. These various facets of landscape include the natural, the cultural, the social, and the political. The Lannan Foundation works related to landscape are never of the sort that is a celebration purely of a sublime or pristine nature; rather they are of the terrain inscribed with all manner of human interaction, including manmade creations meant to guide our way through the oceans, earthworks, human-aided natural disaster, and the theatre of war. The artists in the exhibition are Debbie Fleming Caffery, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, An-My Lê, Sarah Pickering, Victoria Sambunaris, Robert Smithson, and James Turrell. For more information on the Lannan Foundation and their Visual Arts Program, visit http://www.lannan.org/lf/programs/art/ All works Collection Lannan Foundation.
Talk Explosion The UK artist Sarah Pickering captured, in her series Explosion, the detonation of bombs as used by the army for training purposes. Her photographs, awarded with several international prizes and soon on show in an exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, underline the terrifying beauty of fire and the evocative force of this physical phenomenon.
Holding Fire 029 2070 8870 An exhibition of work from the Explosion and the Incident series. Group Shows Theatres of the Real The show on ‘British contemporary photography today’ will be installed on the main floor of the Fotomuseum Antwerp. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the FotoMuseum Antwerp edited by David Green, with texts by show curators David Green and Joanna Lowry, and additional texts by David Chandler and Jan Baetens, The catalogue will include extensive sequences of the works in the exhibition ‘Theatres of the Real’. Photography Collection Gallery White Goods from the Incident series will be featured alongside other new acquisitions and works from the museum collection. Publication A monograph with Aperture featuring work from the series Explosion, Fire Scene, Incident and Public Order, and other previously unseen work. More details to follow. Publication & Commission Photographic Book Project with Paul Shambroom, Dan Holdsworth and Martin Parr commissioned by SAFLE & St Davids 2. Publication scheduled for autumn 2009. More details to follow. |
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The Incident series is a body of work produced as Artist in Residence at the UK Fire Service College from 2006-8. The set of photographs in black and white document the spaces that are used to simulate emergency incidents in training exercises. |
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Photoworks Issue 11, October 2008, Incident with essay Fade to Black by Jason Evans pp 24-33 FOAM, Talent, Fire Scene, Interview with Anne-Celine Jaeger, Fall 2008/ #16 pp125-134 New Photography in Britain ed. Filippo Maggia |
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Rethinking Landscape will feature over 20 large scale images from an array of artists that focus on expanding the definition of the contemporary landscape. Covering the past, present and future, the show considers imagery seen, remembered and imagined through constructions that pit the real world with the hybrid. Many of the images ask fundamental questions such as what was, what is and what will be? Works by both well-known and emerging national and international artists will be on view, including Taj Forer, Andreas Gefeller, Anthony Goicolea, Bill Hensen, Sarah Anne Johnson, Chris Jordan, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Sze Tsung Leong, Sally Mann, Andrew Moore, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Martina Mullaney, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Sarah Pickering, Kerry Skarbakka, and Burk Uzzle. Collisions: Photographies et installations contemporaines, Maison du Danemark, 142 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris |
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