Le jury du Prix BMW – Paris Photo 2009 a sélectionné 20 artistes finalistes pour sa sixième édition. Le thème de ce prix, réservé aux artistes présentés par les galeries participantes à Paris Photo, est :
« Quand avez-vous vécu pour la dernière fois une expérience unique ? ». Ce thème met en mots la philosophie de la nouvelle BMW Série 5 Gran Turismo : une nouvelle expérience humaine, une nouvelle vision du monde.
Les 20 finalistes sélectionnés parmi 55 candidatures retenues seront exposés à Paris Photo du 19 au 22 novembre. L’artiste lauréat recevra le Prix doté de 12 000 euros en ouverture du Salon le 18 novembre prochain.
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Christophe Guye Galerie is pleased to announce the group exhibition 'Urban Spirit' featuring the art of Stephen Gill, Will Steacy, Beat Streuli, Sascha Weidner and Michael Wolf. These artists study the 'location' and the 'human' in different ways. Depending on the degree of presence or absence of 'places' or 'humans' in their photographs, they create a suspense which stimulates the viewer to narrate his or her own story. Although the works offer suggestions, these stories are ultimately created in the viewer's imagination based on his or her own cultural and social background.
«'Urban Spirit' connotes a commitment to an open mind, promises of cultural diversity and opportunities for optimal individual/collective development in urban areas. Each city is distinguis...
Sascha Weidner´s solo exhibition at Conrads focus on on various new series and new works in different media created during his stay in the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, in the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing and in Berlin. The Joint between these formally diverse works is the aspect of absence. The exhibition title "the presence of absence" formulates related to photography a contradiction in terms, which will be resolved in the exhibition with the means of photography.
Installation view "the presence of absence" at Galerie CONRADS ©Sascha Weidner and CONRADS Duesseldorf
Among other works 20 photographs of the series "Aokigahara" are part of Sascha Weidner´s solo show "the presence of absence".
About "Aokigahara": High up,...
Christophe Guye Galerie is proud to announce its upcoming exhibition THE YOUTH CODE!, an exciting group show conceived by Swiss curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, former curator of the Mus ée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, featuring emerging and established international photography artists alike. Circling the theme of youth – the idealisation thereof as well as the difficulties it bares – and the omnipresent images of youth and youth culture created by adults and adolescents alike, THE YOUTH CODE! investigates this prominent phenomenon while suggesting it as an independent contemporary photographic genre. Presenting an intriguing mix of real and imaginary images the exhibition doesn’t try to present a collective portrait of adolescence, but rather brings together the work of various intern...
Photography always puts reality into frames. The photographer takes a picture of something and thereby decides to leave everything else out of it, whereas it might well be possible that the things left out are far more important than the objects in the picture. We tend to object to this by saying that photography violates or undermines truth and reality because it distracts us from the essential events happening at the same time. In a way, that is a valid objection: a picture evidently will never be able to render or reproduce reality more genuine than reality does itself. You always "should have been there yourself", to put it in a slightly trivial way. We know by experience that every observation and perception of reality is "colored". Why is it then that truth is such a problematic issue in photogr...
Das Museum für Photographie Braunschweig zeigt die raumgreifenden Foto-Installationen von Sascha Weidner (*1976) erstmalig in einer größeren Überblicksschau und präsentiert Arbeiten aus den Jahren 2000 bis 2008. Immer wieder richtet der Fotograf den Blick auf scheinbar triviale Dinge des Alltags, die er mittels dramatischer Lichtführung aus ihrem angestammten Kontext isoliert und ihnen so im Bild neue Bedeutung verleiht.
Die verbindende Linie von Weidners ungleichen Sujets ist sein eigenes Leben. So entspringen sei- ne Motive dem biografischen Umfeld und zeigen Freunde und verschiedenste Details seiner per- sönlichen Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen. Dies kann ein Stapel Zeitungen auf einem Esstisch sein, ein Kirschbaum am See, ein Panorama von halbnackten Männern anlässl...
Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zürich, 2009
With to be handled carefully, Sascha Weidner has created an art installation in which single photographs merge into a visual complex of high emotional intensity. The ability to offer visual toeholds to the beholder characterizes Weidner as a photographic poet and as an imaginative storyteller, as well. It is with great pleasure that Galerie Zur Stockeregg, for the first time in Switzerland, presents his work in a solo exhibition.
Sascha Weidner, born in 1976 in Osnabrück Germany, convincingly answers the question how analogue photography can persevere. By a rather exceptional way of hanging his works irrespective of their motive, size and year of production, but rather fusing them in a tessellated manner, Weidner creates expansive installations that provide an insight ...
Le collectif INCARNAT présente quelques travaux photographiques récents. Lors du vernissage le 5 octobre 2007 à 19h00, vous assisterez à une Performance: projection photographique - lecture avec Lucien Suel.
Vous pourrez aussi rencontrez les auteurs à la Galerie de l'Office Culturel (61 grand place – Arras – 03.21.15.09.19) les 19, 20 et 21 octobre 2007...
"Sascha Weidner works within a radical subjective pictorial world. This world is greatly influenced by the perceptions, longings and dreamed images of a generation whose credo can perhaps be best described by the slogan NO FUTURE - MUCH PRESENT.
The drums batter away in the background, the guitars scrape. It sounds like punk, but is, in fact, the next, and next-again, and next-next-again generation: now the rhythms are more melodic, and the melodies are gentler. Sascha Weidner's photographs are like songs. Their poetry soaks up memories and longings and creates real/unreal images of resonating beauty. Life is a film, and every image stands for longing."
Inka Schube, "karambolage, hautnah", in: Sascha Weidner, Förderpreis Fotografie 2005, Hannover 2006, S.4
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