Expositions du 11/02/2007 au 01/04/2007 Terminé
Museum fur Fotografie Jebensstr. 2 D-10623 Berlin France
An exhibition by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris and Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Opening hours: Tues-Sun 10 am - 6 pm, Thu 10 am - 10 pm
From Cairo to Rio, from Shanghai to Dubai, from Addis Ababa to New York - from twelve of the world's metropoles the French photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon brought back twelve films and a great many photographs in response to a commission by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. He chose to spend no more than three days in each city, taking along a film and a photographic camera and ten 5-minute spools of films. He is alone and he observes. A first impression, a first exploration of the city, photographing what he sees, taking it by surprise. No mise-en-scène, nothing is set up, he films with his body and the image becomes movement. The twelve films are shown together in a large installation in the ruinous Kaisersaal of the Museum für Fotografie for the first time. They will surround visitors, sweep them up into the rhythm of each city, suck them into the flow of people coming out of subway stations, intoxicate them with a mosaic of colors. Approximately 300 photographs are exhibited in an original installation in an adjacent room, revealing another vision of the city, a counterpoint to the cinematographic view.
The exhibition is beeing held under the patronage of the French Ambassador to Germany.
Kindly supported by:
Cartier
Palmeraie et désert
ZKM / Filminstitut, Karlsruhe
Publication
Raymond Depardon: VILLES CITIES STÄDTE
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris / Steidl, Göttingen
ISBN 978-3-86521-435-5.
38 €Museum fur Fotografie Jebensstr. 2 D-10623 Berlin France