Gérard Castello-Lopes (1925-2011) fut le représentant par excellence de la génération d'or de la photographie portugaise - celle qui a émergé dans les années 1950. Né à Vichy (France), en 1925, Castello-Lopes est mort à Paris le 12 février 2011. Partageant sa vie entre le Portugal et la France, il a marqué non seulement le cinéma (en tant que critique, acteur, assistant à la réalisation et administrateur de Filmes Castello Lopes), mais aussi la photographie et le jazz (il fut le cofondateur du Hot Clu...

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The photography of the Portuguese artist Jorge Molder evokes a world in which memories are interwoven with apparent recognition and dream with meta-reality. His exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris shows three sequences of his work: The Small World (2000), You Don't Have To Tell Me Anything (2006/2007) and his recent the interpretation of dreams, on show for the first time.

Jorge Molder often uses his own image, transforming it to suggest atmospheres that transcend the everyday environment of his life, and staging venues in which people he imagines can appear - his doubles, no doubt, different from ...

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Thomas Weinberger's photographs surprise by the strange and surreal atmosphere they convey. Sharply defined, almost sculptural, they show industrial plants and urban landscapes devoid of any human traces.

These spectral images are the result of a distinct technique that Thomas Weinberger uses for his work process. The German photographer takes two pictures of the same motif, a day shot and a night shot, and superimposes them subsequently in order to obtain the synthesis of two different lighting situations. This superimposition of natural light and artificial light questions our usual perception of the world and creates a fi...

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The Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris presents the work of the Portuguese photographer João Paulo Serafim. Consisting of fifty photographs in various formats and two videos, the exhibition forms part of a project previously unseen in its entirety, to which the artist has given the name of the Improbable Museum of the Image and Contemporary Art (MIIAC).

MIIAC is a fictitious entity that João Paulo Serafim began to develop in a more systematic fashion in 2005. Serafim explores the symbolic and legitimising power of museum spaces and galleries, also displaying a great fascination with the relationship o...

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