Olafur Eliasson
#Photographe
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Villa Grisebach, Berlin: Auction Modern and Contemporary Photographs
Now online:
Catalogue No. 159: Modern and Contemporary Photographs
www.villa-grisebach.de/en/catalogues/
Auction on Thursday, 27 November 2008, at 3 p.m.
Viewing from 22 to 26 November in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 73.
Saturday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
... - Festival
Un été de photographies au Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
Tous les deux ans, le Palais des Beaux-Arts organise le Summer of Photography, une biennale internationale dédiée à la photographie et aux médias apparentés. Non seulement le festival met à l'honneur la photographie contemporaine, mais il jette aussi un œil sur la culture visuelle du futur. En collaboration avec différentes institutions belges et européennes et plusieurs musées de la photographie et des médias, le Palais élabore un programme qui favorise les échanges culturels entre les États membres européens, le tout dans un contexte mondial. À travers un parcours d'exposition varié et, en marge de l'événement, des conférences, un symposium et une journée portf... - Exposition
An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography
Man’s impact on the natural landscape takes the form of construction, destruction and intervention in the photographic imagery of An Artificial Wilderness. The title borrows a phrase from the W. H. Auden poem The Shield of Achilles (1952), referring to modern society’s passive stance toward the decline of human values, and its disregard for the physical world. Exemplifying this idea at its most extreme, Edward Burtynsky captures the world’s largest accumulation of discarded rubber tires. Lewis Baltz confronts an uncommon, mundane subject—an urban parking lot—and finds beauty. Rosemary Laing documents a seamlessly laid, floral wall-to-wall carpet in a eucalyptus forest to symbolize the domestication of the natural environment. In diverse works dating from the 1960s to the present, and feat... - Exposition
True North exhibition
True North features the work of seven contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based projects evoke the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition are historically and politically self-reflexive and call into question the notion of a pure, unchangeable North. Melancholic in tone, many of these photographs and video projections point instead to a certain loss of purity; they connect supposedly untouched northern landscapes to protagonists who attempt to inhabit, colonize, or commune with the harsh nature of the North.
Drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, True North focuses on elegiac imagery by a group of international artists who ...
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Now online:
Catalogue No. 159: Modern and Contemporary Photographs
www.villa-grisebach.de/en/catalogues/
Auction on Thursday, 27 November 2008, at 3 p.m.
Viewing from 22 to 26 November in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 73.
Saturday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
...
Tous les deux ans, le Palais des Beaux-Arts organise le Summer of Photography, une biennale internationale dédiée à la photographie et aux médias apparentés. Non seulement le festival met à l'honneur la photographie contemporaine, mais il jette aussi un œil sur la culture visuelle du futur. En collaboration avec différentes institutions belges et européennes et plusieurs musées de la photographie et des médias, le Palais élabore un programme qui favorise les échanges culturels entre les États membres européens, le tout dans un contexte mondial. À travers un parcours d'exposition varié et, en marge de l'événement, des conférences, un symposium et une journée portf...
Man’s impact on the natural landscape takes the form of construction, destruction and intervention in the photographic imagery of An Artificial Wilderness. The title borrows a phrase from the W. H. Auden poem The Shield of Achilles (1952), referring to modern society’s passive stance toward the decline of human values, and its disregard for the physical world. Exemplifying this idea at its most extreme, Edward Burtynsky captures the world’s largest accumulation of discarded rubber tires. Lewis Baltz confronts an uncommon, mundane subject—an urban parking lot—and finds beauty. Rosemary Laing documents a seamlessly laid, floral wall-to-wall carpet in a eucalyptus forest to symbolize the domestication of the natural environment. In diverse works dating from the 1960s to the present, and feat...
True North features the work of seven contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based projects evoke the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition are historically and politically self-reflexive and call into question the notion of a pure, unchangeable North. Melancholic in tone, many of these photographs and video projections point instead to a certain loss of purity; they connect supposedly untouched northern landscapes to protagonists who attempt to inhabit, colonize, or commune with the harsh nature of the North.
Drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, True North focuses on elegiac imagery by a group of international artists who ...