Robert Voit #Photographe
Né en 1969 à Erlangen (Allemagne), Robert Voit vit à Munich où il a suivi des études supérieures en photographie, puis étudié, de 1998 à 2001, auprès de Gerd Winner à l'Académie des Arts de Munich. Il rejoint ensuite à l'Académie des Arts de Düsseldorf auprès de Thomas Ruff qui lui décerne le titre de "Meisterschüler" en 2005.
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Destiné à soutenir la création contemporaine, le Prix BMW – Paris Photo est aujourd’hui une véritable référence internationale. Réservé aux artistes représentés par les galeries participantes et décerné par un jury prestigieux, ce Prix couronne chaque année l’œuvre d’un photographe contemporain sur un thème en relation avec l’univers BMW. L’artiste lauréat, désigné parmi une sélection de 20 finalistes exposés à Paris Photo, reçoit une dotation de 12 000 €.
Pour sa septième édition placée sous le thème de « Vision électrique », le Prix BMW – Paris Photo 2010 a été...
Pour sa septième édition, le jury du Prix BMW – Paris Photo 2010 a sélectionné 20 artistes finalistes. Le thème de ce Prix, réservé aux artistes présentés par les galeries participantes à Paris Photo, est : « Vision électrique ».
Inspiré par la BMW Concept ActiveE, ce thème rend hommage à l’électricité qui façonne le devenir technologique de nos sociétés et transforme notre vision du monde.
Les 20 finalistes sélectionnés parmi 51 candidatures retenues seront exposés à Paris Photo du 18 au 21 novembre 2010. L’artiste lauréat recevra le Prix doté de 12 000 euros en ouverture du Salon le 17 novembre prochain.
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Robert Voit has discovered a completely new species of plant that he calls “new trees” – cellular phone antennae of steel, fiberglass and plastic, camouflaged as trees. This unusual new life form is now at home all over the world. There are pine trees, palm trees, cypresses, cacti and deciduous trees. Some are in the desert or in newly planted forests, others in fields and parking lots, next to highways and in housing developments. They seek fertile ground near technical facilities; many are surrounded by fences. In the USA, South Africa and throughout Europe, Voit photographed the antenna trees and put them together in an arboretum, a very special botanical garden full of peculiar woods. The viewer of Voit’s photographs will look at the world another way in the future and ask: “What is re...
ClampArt is pleased to announce the opening of “’New Trees’ and ‘The Alphabet of New Plants,’” a selection of photographs by German photographer Robert Voit. The exhibition coincides with the long-anticipated release of Robert Voit’s monograph from Steidl (Hardcover, 152 pages, 60 color illus.).
At first glance, the large-format color photographs from the series “New Trees” seem to depict everyday woody perennial plants, distinctive only because of their oddly oversized proportions. On closer inspection, however, it becomes apparent that these are not trees at all—they are cell phone towers disguised by telecom companies to blend in with urban and rural surroundings. Appropriating the compositional techniques of Bernd and Hilla Becher, while simultaneously mo...
ClampArt is pleased to present « Into the Woods », a group exhibition including artworks by Corey Arnold, Anna Beeke, Jesse Burke, Caleb Charland, Larry Clark, Lisa DiLillo, Adam Ekberg, Nan Goldin, Gregory Halpern, Collin LaFleche, Sebastian Lemm, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, David Nadel, Ahndraya Parlato, Pacifico Silano, Chad States, Amy Stein, and Robert Voit.
The woods commonly serve as metaphor for many things—including that which is mysterious, perhaps frightening, or simply unfamiliar. The forest marks the edge of mankind’s domain, and for centuries poets, composers, painters, and artists of all media have been inspired by what at first may seem outwardly calm and tranquil, but firmly delineates what should be the boundary of man’s authority.
In recent years a number of emerging...
The exhibition Industrial Era traces the development of industrial photography from its origins to the present. 200 original photographs from the extensive photography and graphics/paintings collections of the Münchner Stadtmuseum are presented for the first time ever. The exhibition is supplemented with loans from private collections in Munich and Vienna as well as a selection of the most beautiful and interesting anthologies on industrial photography from the library of the Münchner Stadtmuseum’s photography collection.
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Munich-based photographer Robert Voit has discovered a new kind of tree that is sprouting up all over the world: the cellular phone antenna tree, made from steel, fiberglass and plastic, molded to resemble a real tree, and clad with fake branches and leaves. Dubbing these weird sore thumbs “new trees,” Voit has found all kinds of specimens--pine, palm, cypress, cactus--throughout the world, in deserts or in the middle of newly planted forests, in fields and parking lots, next to highways or in housing developments. The artificiality of these “new trees” readily declares itself--they are necessarily taller than most trees, their antennae are often visible through the leaves, or the trunks may be marked with warnings to keep away--and even without these clues they stick out from their surroundings a...
Munich-based photographer Robert Voit has discovered a new kind of tree that is sprouting up all over the world: the cellular phone antenna tree, made from steel, fiberglass and plastic, molded to resemble a real tree, and clad with fake branches and leaves. Dubbing these weird sore thumbs “new trees,” Voit has found all kinds of specimens--pine, palm, cypress, cactus--throughout the world, in deserts or in the middle of newly planted forests, in fields and parking lots, next to highways or in housing developments. The artificiality of these “new trees” readily declares itself--they are necessarily taller than most trees, their antennae are often visible through the leaves, or the trunks may be marked with warnings to keep away--and even without these clues they stick out from their surroundings a...