MKgalerie shows recents works from 15 artists and is curated by Willem van Zoetendaal.
Van Zoetendaal is very active in - foremost - contemporary Dutch photography and his knowledge of contemporary photography is important. He was professor at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, has curated exhibitions in museums and in institutions and is a publisher.
Archivo is published by Young Photographers Foundation and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and a project by Paul Kooiker and Willem van Zoetendaal....
The title of this first publication on the photographic works of Johannes Schwartz is deceptive. 'Das Prinzip' (The Principle) suggests a truth or a dogma, which is not however present in the various works - mostly series that are here only represented by one image. Unless of course one were to define 'deceptiveness' itself as a principle.
The works are arranged sequentially but in reverse order: the first photo in the catalogue is thus chronologically the last one. Its title 'Winkels' (2007, Dutch for 'shops', German for 'corners'), with its deliberate arrangement of everyday objects suggests a general goods store, which retrospectively - after browsing through the catalogue - could also strangely be interpreted as a compilation of earlier works.
For example, if one compares the rustic typology of the box with o...