uzia Simons was born in 1953 in Quixadá, Brazil and lives in Berlin. She first studied history until 1978 and then Fine Arts at the Sorbonne University in Paris from 1984 to 1986.

In Luzia Simons work, the floral still life takes on a multi-layered cultural and socio-political statement. For one, the artist studies the history of the tulip, which became an important symbol of identification in both the Orient and the Occident. Taken from this historical context, the tulip becomes a metaphor for cross-cultural identity, social mobility and globalization for Luzia Simons.

...

    Lire la suite

After working with digital art, Miao Xiaochun returns to photography with his series 'Beijing Index'. The artist drafted longitudes and latitudes on a satellite image of Beijing, and as a result the crossing points formed the basis for the design study after which 639 photographs were taken.

Miao Xiaochun uses a round shot camera by Seitz that enables him to take extremely expanded photographs in a 360 degrees angle. The mechanic of the camera allows him to renounce from any individual choice of motif - apart from his personal ideas and favoured themes - and creates a diverse portrait of the rapidly changing Beijing.
...

    Lire la suite

'We all give priority to the 'objectivity' of photographs; however, everyone makes a subjective choice prior to shooting. We choose the theme, the location, the time of shooting, the aperture and the shutter speed; we decide on the people and objects entering the frame.
If we really don't know what to shoot, we can shoot first and select later or we can ask someone else to choose for us. After selecting a few, we can pigeonhole the others and wait for later generations to choose again. Think about how we handle pictures left by earlier generations, some have artistic others have documentary value and it is wrong to destroy any of th...

    Lire la suite

Chi Peng, barely in his mid-twenties and already an internationally recognised artist, is considered to  be o ne o f the most groundbreaking and innovative exponents o f contemporary Chinese art avant-garde. This is due particularly to  his superior handling o f digital photography and image-editing. He skilfully fuses actuality and fiction to  an artistically generated pseudo-substantiality. Chi Peng is a classical first-person narrator. Already in his early works he repeatedly became a figure and part within his o wn artistic creation. Digitally animated and frequently multiplied, his o wn 'alter ego' becomes a recurring p...

    Lire la suite

    Consultez toutes les actualités en relation avec Alexander Ochs Galleries