HOST Gallery are extremely happy to announce that on Friday the 23rd October Hans van der Meer will be giving a talk about his body of work European Fields in the gallery, to reserve your place please email rsvp stating its for the event on the 23rd to rsvp@hostgallery.co.uk, Tickets are £8 or £5 for Foto8 Members
Date: Friday 23rd October
Timing: 6:30 Drinks, 7:00pm Start
Hans Van Der Meer started photographing lower league football across Europe in 1995 He went out looking for football in its original form; as it had started more than hundred years ago a patch of land, 22 players, no spectators, maybe a horse in the next meadow.
These acute and subtle observations of the poetry and absurdity of human behaviour connect the game of football to the basic futility of the human condition. The small...
RENCONTRES D’ARLES : 2014, UNE ANNÉE CHARNIÈRE
Hervé Schiavetti, maire d'Arles, vice-président du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, vice-président des Rencontres d'Arles.
L’histoire qui lie Arles à la photographie dure depuis 44 ans et durera longtemps encore. Comme toutes les vraies histoires d’amour, ces années ont été riches de découvertes, de bonheurs, d’épreuves aussi. De la chambre noire au smartphone, du mépris à l’Académie, de la rareté du tirage à l’avalanche numérique, les Rencontres d’Arles ont vécu des révolutions esthétiques, technologiques et sociologiques sans perdre leur âme. Arles doit beaucoup aux Rencontres, à leur «père» Lucien Clergue qui fête ses 80 ans et dont l’œu...
Curated by the iconic British photographer Martin Parr, Strange and Familiar considers how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural and political identity of the UK.
From social documentary and portraiture to street and architectural photography, the exhibition celebrates the work of leading photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. Bringing together over 250 compelling photographs and previously unseen bodies of work, Strange and Familiar presents a vibrant portrait of modern Britain....
Milou Abel, Hans Eijkelboom, Sema Bekirovic, Melanie Bonajo, Hans de Vries, Erik Fens, Jos Houweling, Hans van der Meer, Maurice van Es
Dans «Small Universe», le directeur artistique et commissaire Erik Kessels s'intéresse à la photographie documentaire hollandaise qui est l'une des plus dynamiques du monde. Dans ce pays aux villes très peuplées, des artistes se sont attachés à définir l'univers documentaire le plus intime.
Erik Kessels explique: «J'aime à penser que si la Hollande devait être une image, ce serait une jpeg: si ce format très populaire de compression de fichier occupe peu de place, une fois ouvert, il contient d'innombrables richesses insoupçonnées.»
«Les Hollanda...
The title of this exhibition refers to the book by Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. Huizinga described and explained Play as a cultural expression that characterizes many facets of the human life. The play between humans, as well as the play between animals, is a play that doesn’t have to have a deeper meaning, that seemingly leads to nothing, but can be relaxing, frivolous, attention diverting and fills the spirit with adrenaline. Play has rules and structures, has a beginning and an end, is always a temporary thing, is subject to laws and seems to be an independent action in itself.
This subject is addressed in the photography of the artists mentioned above. Like a sidetrack, like a coincidence and sometimes also on purpose or as part of a series. It becomes clear that Play comes in many forms; groups of ...
A pitch, two goals, 22 players, open meadows or rough ground, with only a handful of spectators: for more than ten years, Dutch photographer Hans van der Meer visited the playing fields of Europe, photographing football in its most elementary form as it is played weekend upon weekend in the lower league clubs of the villages and suburbs, occupying the minds and the feet of the players and their wives for more than a hundred years. These subtle images of men pursuing an activity as absurd as it is poetic shows that human endeavour in all its futility has a name: football. The tragicomedy of the protagonists on the pitch contrasts starkly with the landscapes and sprawling settlements in the background, against which the archaic passion of the game seems all the more potent.
The photographs and videos by Hans van der Meer...