Artists are often the best judges of which works by young emerging talents are the most interesting. Their tastes shaped independently of the art market, they are attracted to different aesthetic approaches and positions. With Freeway Balconies, the Deutsche Guggenheim follows the precedent set the exhibition The Vanity of Allegory, curated by the artist Douglas Gordon together with Nancy Spector in 2005.
Acclaimed American artist Collier Schorr, whose multimedia practice explores appropriated identities and performance, has organized a group exhibition that is at once a self-portrait and a riveting display of some of the most vital trends in U.S.-based contemporary art. From her position as visual artist, critic, and teacher, Schorr possesses a uniquely intimate perspective on current art production, which she has translated into this experimental presentation, infused with a collaborative spirit.
The title, Freeway Balconies, affectionately borrowed from '60s poet laureate Allen Ginsberg, refers to the meeting place of spectacle and voyeurism in American culture, combining frenetic energy with still observation. Gathering an idiosyncratic mix of emerging and established artists, juxtaposing their works in complementary to antagonistic relationships, Schorr loads the display with visual and conceptual traps and challenges. Variously engaging early performance art and the cult of Hollywood, contemporary idols and historical ghosts, the group weaves around selections of Schorr's own work that reveal a dominant concern with how identities are constructed and the ways in which this process goes awry. Ranging in mediums from photography to sculpture, installation to video, the exhibition explores the performative impulse so operative in today's innovative forms. At times dark and perverse, and at others, transcendent, the works included in Freeway Balconies play off a pop-infused, contemporary American vernacular.
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...
La MID inaugure avec L’exposition Un photographe à Cette, un cycle d’événements annuels consacrés à la mise en valeur de la Mémoire photographique régionale.
Une cinquantaine de tirages réalisés à partir du fond privé de la collection Robert Cortade,...
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