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Exhibitions Los Angeles: Paris Photo moves to LA

April 21, 2013 — Leave a comment

If Art Basel can be in Miami then logic concludes Paris Photo can be in Los Angeles, April 26-28th. A great way to see an excellent and large cross section of contemporary and vintage photography.  Don’t go here and expect them to hang out and look at your prints. The galleries in this premier exhibition are there for one reason only: To sell you lots of very expensive photographs by the best shooters in the world… This is one of the biggest shows when in Europe. It will be interesting to see how it works in LA.

 

Paris Photo was created in 1996 and is the most prestigious art fair dedicated  to historical and contemporary photography. This fair takes place annually at the Grand Palais in Paris mid-November and at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles at the end of April. Over the past 16 years, Paris Photo has become a significant event for collectors of contemporary and modern art, photography professionals, artists,  as well as for an ever-growing audience of art appreciators. Each edition is unique and brings together a distinguished selection of exhibitors with diverse collections focused on the photographic medium. A public program is also an important component of the fairs which is built around cultural events involving artists, art world professionals, collectors, and cultural institutions.Enriched by the unique cultural environment of these two cities, Paris Photo  offers its visitors an unsurpassed experience in two historic locations which bring together all the different trends in photography.
 
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Best Amateur Photography WebSite: Dear Photograph

April 19, 2013 — Leave a comment

All about time, memory and the power of snapshots in our lives Dear Photograph has taken one simple idea and made it into an anonymous, crowd sourced art collective of staggering implications regarding being human and our fleeting time on earth.

Hands down one of the most interesting web sites out there.

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James Turrell Triple Retrospective

April 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

Maybe the most important exhibitions of this decade. James Turrell is the master of creating exquisite and ethereal beauty out of pure ambient light. Legend has it that his installation at the Stedelijk Museum dropped people to their knees. These are extremely rare and complicated works.  You best run (don’t walk) to these once in a lifetime events.

James Turrell: A Retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition includes early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, and recent two-dimensional work with holograms. One section is devoted to the Turrell masterwork in process, Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and films.

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Art Fair’s Europe: Art Cologne & Art Brussels

April 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

Art Cologne, April 19 – April 22 and Art Brussels, April 18 – 21 April go head to head this month. Why? It’s yet another mystery of the wonderful world of Art.   Have to choose?  Art Cologne is the bigger of the two. (And has pretty good beer). Bicycles rule in the great city of Köln so beware of large Germans riding bikes.

 

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Exhibitions New York: Thomas Ruff @ David Zwirner

April 13, 2013 — Leave a comment
Not so sure about the 3D mars photographs (NASA could of put these images up… and let’s not forget how bad 3D imagery looks without the glasses). Can one actually live with these huge out of focus/registration 3D images or does one carry around a spare set of 3D glasses ALL THE TIME??? Hmmm… I hope I am wrong but this begs a closer look.  But I have to say the Man Ray inspired Photogram’s look incredible and no doubt save the show. Update to come…
Update: After seeing the show I walked away feeling a little confused. First of all I have a hard time with label “photograms” as I am pretty confident in saying that at no time was any object placed on a piece of photographic paper and exposed to light to make these big beautiful images. Especially not at the scale they are presented.  I have no problem that they are  abstractions built via a computer and then exposed as Lightjet images (as I presume they are). But to call them photograms is just incorrect and frankly a bit misleading. They need a new name – so why not call them Ruff-O-Grams?
The 3D ma.r.s images look just ok without the glasses and exactly what you expect with the glasses. So nothing really but a novelty image for me. The big surprise was the highly manipulated landscapes in the series. These are the best of the bunch and work as abstractions from afar and as highly detailed images of the martian surface. All in all a very beautiful show and worth the trip.
Thomas Ruff: Photograms & Ma.r.s  March 28 – April 27, 2013 at David Zwirner

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