Ruud van Empel
Erwin Olaf
Cornelie Tollens
Carla van de Puttelaar
In Erwin Olaf's latest series 'Grief' (2007) he portrais the unhappy, private lives of beautiful, affluent women, evoking 1960s America shortly after John F Kennedy's assassination. Olaf compares the worldwide Grief that ensued to that which followed September 11, 2001. What accentuates the series' poignancy is the contrast between the charmed, external appearance of the women's lives and their internal sense of desolation.
Anna Samson for Eyemazing Magazine
Cornelie Tollens (1964) surrounds herself in an imaginary boudoir filled with things that she finds intriguing and alluring. Flowers, fruits and fruit, valuable materials such as lace, satin and damask, supple and smooth ribbons and lingerie. But also the secret places in soft, beautiful bodies, and the suggestive soft shapes of life in the sea, as opposed to the aggressive pointed shapes of a beak or a high heel. These are the ingredients of her work in which it is important that the artist herself remains firmly in charge of the complete presentation. Cornelie Tollens uses her photography to illustrate both beauty and creamy innocence, which is not an easy task given the wide selection of guilty objects and accessories.
Flatland will bring two new works of Ruud van Empel's Venus series.
'When Ruud van Empel chooses children to play the leading roles, which is in most of the cases, that primitive impulse of desire, that feeling that everything is possible turns into something concrete. Fantasy has no limits and invades the territory that belongs to reality. And we enjoy those scenes created by artists like van Empel because we get a chance to be as naïve, innocent and fresh as those kids staring at us; at least for a moment'
Maria Carolina Baulo for Next Level Magazine
Carla van de Puttelaar 's intimatie nudes capture young women bathed in a subdued natural light reminiscent of her Flemish predecessors centuries before... She photographs them in an oblique way, teasing us with halfturned bodies, covering hands, closed eyes and details that are delicately sexy rather than overt.
Sophie Wright for the British Journal of Photography
DIEHL starts its “Flaneur” selection with 42 works of the Soviet photo journalist Dmitry Baltermants. Best known for his pictures of the Soviet battlefield during World War II.
During World War II, Baltermants covered major battles for Izvestia and for the Red Army newspaper Na Razgrom Vraga. He fought and photographe...
Le 24 mars 1976, le peuple argentin subit un coup d’état militaire. C’est le début d’une ère de répression sanglante, où quelque 30 000 personnes disparaissent et près de 500 bébés sont volés. Mais s’ouvre également une période d’ultralibéralisme d&ea...
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Coastline featuring emerging Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao’s award-winning series Coastline that focuses on the continuous 18,000 kilometres of China’s coastline. The series does not merely capture the seaside landscape of these coastal areas, but also witnesses the changes o...
Du dépouillement des clichés de Catherine Lambermont se dégage une poésie narrative. Ses images composent une suite d’instants d’observation libre. Son travail réhabilite le continuum qui caractérise chaque frontière. La frontière est le lieu du lien. Entre le corps et l’es...
Eric Rondepierre a choisi de montrer au sein d'un travail multiforme, certaines des oeuvres qui ont partie liée au cinéma, depuis ses débuts en 1992. Sur un parcours de vingt ans, 56 pièces ont été prélevées dans dix séries : Excédents, Annonces, Précis...
Simone Nieweg is a photographer of gardens and landscapes. Her work, as it has manifested itself over the past thirty years, knows no other interest. At the same time, a certain serenity hovers over her pictures. In them, nature seems entirely focused on itself. One immediately notices that human beings are absent. The allure of colors and shapes...
« Je ne peux m’empêcher, atteste Gérard Uféras, d’associer la pratique de l’Art à la notion d’amour et de partage ». (extrait de son livre Etats de grâce, éditions du Fantom)
«Egyptian pack» evokes many associations - here are both Petersburgers favorite topic of werewolves (see the movie of E. Yufit «Corpsmen werewolves») and references to the Perm animal style.
Also we can recall British film «The Wicker Man» (1973) with its ritual procession of the man-beasts, ho...