Le Festival MADRIDFOTO 2011 aura lieu à Madrid du 5 au 8 mai 2011. Nous annonçons ci-dessous le contenu de cette troisième édition du festival, qui se concentre sur la photographie contemporaine et accorde une place notable aux galeries parisiennes (Galerie Magnum, Galerie VU', Baudouin Lebon, Polka Galerie), tout en faisant de Baudouin Lebon un des responsables du Festival.
Fifty exhibitors - galleries, publishing houses and collaborating companies - from 20 cities around the world, including Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid and Barcelona, comprise the list of participants in MADRIDFOTO3.
The fair will bring to Madrid creations by renowned photographers such as Bleda y Rosa, Candida Höfer, Günther Förg, Helena Almeida, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Isabel Mu...
In the wake of an eventful Netherlands-Russia year, from 14 December 2013 Huis Marseille will be devoting several of its exhibition galleries to a photographic examination of the intrinsically Russian soul. This soul is to be found, for instance, along the banks of the great Russian rivers – such as the Volga, the Neva and the Oka – where the country’s development was closely linked to trade and fishing. The Russian photographer Oleg Klimov depicts Russia’s relationship with water, travelling to these places by sea and waterway. The Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra, by contrast, lays bare the Russian soul in a thousand details: the erratically-applied false eyelashes on the flamboyant Natalya Shorogova, floor supervisor at Hotel Zhemchuzhina in Sochi; the educational ‘Cosmonautics’ m...
A major exhibition of films and photographs by Willie Doherty, one of the most significant artists of our times. Rooted in the political and geographical landscape of his native Northern Ireland, Doherty's work expands out of this context to address universal themes of individual and collective subjectivity and responsibility, creating a new framework within which to think about who we are and how we live.
This exhibition brings together a selection of new and existing films and photographs, and includes a new film, Buried, made specially for the exhibition. The new film was made and is shown in the context of Ghost Story, first shown at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Both of the works deal with memory, its repression and return, but while Ghost Story is narrated by a male voice piecing together a story of remembered ho...
Three Potential Endings is the title of the forth coming solo exhibition of Willie Doherty (born 1959 and currently living in Derry, Northern Ireland) and at the same time the name of his new film, which will be shown on the occasion of his exhibition for the first time. This will be the artist's sixth exhibition in our gallery.
Three Potential Endings was shot on location in Dublin during the summer of 2008.
The work is structured around three open-ended sequences involving a businessman who finds himself outside of the familiar surroundings of the office. The work does not provide any explanation or rationale but rather places the man in direct confrontation with the architectural spaces where he finds himself. The work presents a figure besieged with the possibility of failure and uncertainty.
The three seque...