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Exhibition : « In focus : Jane and Louise Wilson’s sealander »
Press release - Exhibition includes four monumental photographs of Nazi bunkers along French Atlantic coast
LOS ANGELES – For nearly 30 years, Jane and Louise Wilson, identical twin sisters, have worked together to create large-scale photographs and video installations that revisit the locations and events that shaped modern European history, from secret police headquarters in East Germany to the nuclear facility in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Four of the Wilsons’ oversized, monochromatic photographs will be featured in In Focus: Jane and Louise Wilson’s Sealander, on view February 14-July 2, 2017 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center. Depicting bunkers erected by Adolf Hitler along the Normandy coast to protect against Allied invasions during World War II, the works emphasize the alien character of these ... - Exposition
Exhibition : « Conflict, Time, Photography » at the Museum Folkwang
"Conflict, Time, Photography" presents the many facets of the artistic portrayal of armed conflicts using the medium of photography. Artists such as Don McCullin, Pierre-Antony-Thouret, Simon Norfolk, Stephen Shore, Michael Schmidt and Taryn Simon have depicted acts of war and their legacy, in photographs taken in the mo-ment of the action, as well as days, months, years, and even decades after the event. This major group exhibition has no intention of serving as a ‘history of war photography’, however. It instead explores the various possibilities and strategies that artists and photographers have adopted to try to come to terms with violent conflict, in the hope of overcoming it. On show are some 200 works ranging from a period of just over 150 years in the history of photography, from 1855 to 201... - Exposition
Suspending Time - Jane & Louise Wilson
Curated by Isabel Carlos, Suspending Time is the largest individual exhibition ever produced by the British artists Jane & Louise Wilson in Spain. The exhibition ranges from their first work in video, Hypnotic Suggestion 505 (1993) until the most recent Songs for My Mother (2009). Apart from these two emblematic works, the exhibition will comprise films, photographs and previously unseen creations such a series of sculptures purposely produced for CGAC that play with the building's architecture: rulers that measure and mark the various exhibition spaces, beyond a suspended sculpture inspired by Rodchenko. Hypnotic Suggestion 505, presented for the first time in Oporto in 1993, in the context of the exhibition Walter Benjamin's Briefcase, curated by Andrew Renton, is based on a Jean Cocteau idea on the hypnotic effect...
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