JED DEVINE

Posted on 2014-02-03

The exhibition, which will feature images focused on the interior spaces of the artist’s daily life and experience, represents a significant new development in the career of this important photographer.
For the past forty years, he has been celebrated for his platinum palladium prints, distinguished by their delicate small-scale black and white still lifes, landscapes, and portraiture. (A selection of which will be on view in the Project Space.)

Those images are both commercial and classical as the viewer encounters icons of art history juxtaposed with contemporary painting, commercial illustration, photojournalism, and three-dimensional household items. Devine’s everyday objects and reproductions of the flat art he finds on his breakfast table impart a compelling two-dimensional sculptural quality. We find ourselves asking where the photograph as object now resides in the age of post-appropriation and image saturation.

Devine’s new images are thus eclectic collages veering gently into the realm of abstraction. Humorous, surprising, and challenging, this work has a decisive place in the evolution of the artist’s career, contextualizing the earlier images as pieces in what we can now understand to be a culminating point in the artist’s lifelong imagemaking.

Exhibition runs through to March 8th, 2014

Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street
13th Floor
New York
NY
10022

www.bonnibenrubi.com

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RAPHAEL DANKE & MIROSLAV TICHY – CLICK, CLICK

Posted on 2014-02-03

The exhibition’s title refers to the “Click, Click” that eccentric, multimillionaire and surrealist Edward William Frank James would eject in order to mark a specific moment he wanted to capture in his memory.

Raphael Danke became aware of his connection to Tichy after seeing one of his own works installed in proximity to a photograph of Tichy’s at a collector’s house and thus developed the exhibition at VAN HORN. Both artists deal with the quality of destruction and beauty. Instead of wanting to create a ‘perfect image’, they are concerned with the process of seeing and capturing an impression which does not please the eye by means of technical perfection. Thematically as well as technically, the parallels between Tichy and Danke are obvious, suggesting a joint exhibition.

Danke utilises a mobile phone’s camera for his photographs while Tichy uses inferior devices fashioned from everyday findings. This often leads to under- or overexposure and blurry motifs. By exposing pages from magazines, Danke destroys the given image in its original form. Tichy’s work, however, is subject to a rather inevitable type of destruction: as he never intended to present his photographs in art exhibitions, he treated them carelessly, the result of which are stains and scratches, which account for the charming and poetic character of his work.

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2014

VAN HORN
Ackerstr. 99
40233
Düsseldorf
Germany

www.van-horn.net

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HASSELBLAD HV 24.3 MEGAPIXEL FULL-FRAME DSLR

Posted on 2014-02-03

Equipped with a Carl Zeiss 24-70mm lens and 35mm full-frame HD moviemaking capability, the HV ships with a specially designed, extremely robust case for extra protection against dust, water, chemical agents, and impacts and shocks. This lightweight case doubles as an integrated organizer to hold the camera, cables and chargers, memory cards, an iPad and a regular size laptop.

www.hasselblad.co.uk

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