NICOLA LO CALZO – BUNDLES OF WOOD

Posted on 2019-09-09

Since 2010, the Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo has traversed Atlantic coastal areas to research buried memories of the African Diaspora. His latest project, Bundles of Wood documents the rich local history of the Underground Railroad in Central New York.

Lo Calzo was born in Torino, Italy, in 1979 and now lives and works in Paris, West Africa, and the Caribbean. For seven years he has engaged in a photographic project about the memories of the slave trade. This ambitious, still ongoing project includes documentation of the descendants of the African diaspora in America, Cuba, Haiti, Suriname, the Caribbean, and West Africa. In his artist’s statement, Lo Calzo asks,

“How is it possible that the world organized the social, political, and moral consensus around the slave trade for four centuries, and how is it possible to erase this tragedy from the collective memory of Western countries and even from textbooks? Have the memories of slavery, discarded by history, survived to this day and, if so, in what forms and in what places? How do these memories, repressed by some and preserved by others, define our everyday relationships, our perception, and the place of everyone in society?”

Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2019

Light Work Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse
13244 NY

www.lightwork.org

  

THE GOLDFINCH

Posted on 2019-09-09

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Amazon Studios, “The Goldfinch” is the film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s globally acclaimed best-selling novel, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Theodore “Theo” Decker was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day…a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. The Goldfinch.

In theatres September 27th, 2019

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DAVID BURNETT – WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON

Posted on 2019-09-02

The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Contact Press Images, is excited to announce the upcoming photography exhibit, and the world premiere of We Choose to go to the Moon, as well as the release of the book of the same name featuring the photographs of David Burnett. The photographs document the launch of the Apollo XI mission.

At the time, 22-year-old, David Burnett was a photographer working for TIME Magazine out of the Miami bureau. Burnett’s coverage region included the area off Florida’s Space Coast where the Apollo XI rocket would launch. In May of 1969, he had photographed the launch of Apollo X as a warm-up and two months later he went on to record the launch of Apollo XI carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins whose mission was to land and walk on the moon.

It was David’s idea to record the events for TIME by turning his camera away from the rocket and focus on the ‘space’ that the visiting tourists, from near and far, had staked out to celebrate and witness the moments leading up to and during the Apollo XI rocket launch.

Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2019

Leica Gallery San Francisco
463 Bush Street
San Francisco
94108 CA

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LILI JAMAIL – ROLLERCOASTER

Posted on 2019-09-02

Lili Jamail’s stoic photographs are marked by an understated tension between internal and external states and spaces. The images on view belong to two familiar categories of photography – portraits and landscapes – and are made with exceptional care and evident technical skill. The pictures share a laconic restraint and a reserved, tense austerity, conveying the calm before the storm or the stunned silence that follows. The show’s title, “Rollercoaster,” suggests extremes – leisure and stress, anticipation and release – and the proximity of hard won control with depths of raw emotion.

Opposite – Two Bends, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 5th, 2019

Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York
10013 NY

teamgal.com

  

CLARISSA BONET – URBAN CONSTRUCTS

Posted on 2019-09-02

In the portfolio City Space, Clarissa Bonet recreates pedestrian scenes of urban life. Set among towering columns, concrete facades, stairwells, and street corners, in the shadows cast by skyscrapers and expansive plains of asphalt, Bonet’s characters move and sit, and wait. These images illustrate a broader interaction between people and their environment undisguised by the seemingly mundane scenarios depicted. These are the moments of intersection between subject and setting that define urban living.

City Space expands on the genre and practice of street photography by capturing the psychological impact of her experience of the street not live, but via the thoughtfully and deliberately reconstructed image. These are fragments of memory, envisioned and then formalized into visual statements. This is an authentic vocabulary for the urban space, an environment where private lives take place in public spaces and where a defining moment for one life is just a beat in the city’s rhythm for another.

Opposite – Fortress, 2016

Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2019

Southeast Museum of Photography
1200 W. International Speedway Blvd
Daytona Beach
32114 FL

www.smponline.org

  

LATIFA ECHAKHCH – SEVERAL TIMES

Posted on 2019-09-02

en-foot brick wall appears to have had a chunk bitten off the top and a very large hole drilled through the middle. The cut-out brick circle and missing corner are presented nearby on the gallery floor, provoking one to question if what is missing is just as or more important than what remains. Elsewhere, three oversized pear shapes have been mechanically carved from solid brick cubes. Similar to the wall, two round holes have been cut through one of the pears. In a contradictory combination, Hopf challenges our habitual views of the world by representing this easily bruised, perishable fruit in one of the most sturdy, long-lasting building materials.

Opposite – Several times, you’re so cool, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2019

Dvir Gallery
67 rue de la Régence
1000 Brussels
Belgium

dvirgallery.com