2011 December : EXIT

BORIS SAVELEV – COLOUR CONSTRUCTIONS

Posted on 2011-12-05

Born in Chernovitz in 1947 Boris Savelev moved to Moscowin 1966, a rocket engineer through his working life, Savelev found photography later on and has committed himself to this exciting chapter in photography’s short history wholeheartedly.

Regarded by many now as one of Russia’s most important living photographers, Savelev is an artist at the peak of his career. Working with Factum in Madrid, Savelev has again used this extraordinary and proprietary printing process that allows him to fully realise his photographic vision. This new show is composed solely of colour works. Adam Lowe and Rafa Rachewsky at Factum Arte in Madrid, using their own custom-made flatbed multi-layer pigment printer make the images onto gesso coated aluminum panels, allowing for an extraordinary degree of control within what is a mechanical medium. Each image is finished by hand and then waxed which leaves the surface with a rich and penetrating range of tones and hues. There is absolutely nothing else like this printing process in the world and its permanence is proven.

Opposite – Lopatiuk, Chernowitz, 1996

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com

KEITH PATTISON – NO REDEMPTION

Posted on 2011-12-05

The Strike of 1984–85 shook the foundations of British society, tearing apart traditional mining communities. In August 1984 Keith Pattison was commissioned to photograph the strike at Easington Colliery for one month. He remained there until it ended in March 1985, photographing from behind the lines a community rallying together against implacable opposition. Pattison frames a narrative sequence of images from the optimism of August through the deepening pessimism of winter, to the final vote to return to work.

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

University Gallery
Northumbria University
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

www.northumbria.ac.uk

TIM FLACH – MORE THAN HUMAN

Posted on 2011-12-05

The new works reflect Tim’s current preoccupation with the contemporary relationship between humans and non-human animals, focussing on how we engage with them within the contexts of history, culture, politics and science. This will all come together in the new book, More than Human, due for publication in October 2012.

Through Tim’s unique vision and ability to challenge the viewer, he has created a series of images which encompass not only his personal beliefs, but the concepts common in modern and historical religious and cultural symbolism, the human obsession with ‘cuteness’, cross-breeding, the blurred line between human and animal genetic modification, conservation, morphology and plasticity.

Opposite – Monkey Eyes, 2011

Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012

Osborne Samuel Gallery
23a Bruton Street
London
W1J 6QG

www.osbornesamuel.com

MYSTERIES OF LISBON

Posted on 2011-12-05

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals. Director Raoul Ruiz’s adaptation of Camilo Castelo Brancho’s classic ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’.

In theaters December 9th, 2011

mysteriesoflisbon.com

ANOTHER EARTH

Posted on 2011-12-05

In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.

In theaters December 9th, 2011

www.foxsearchlight.com/anotherearth

HAYWIRE

Posted on 2011-12-05

Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can’t authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.
Stars Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Michael Fassbender, directed by Steven Soderbergh

In theaters January 20th, 2012