2021 June : EXIT

TRANSFORMATION – A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Posted on 2021-06-07

The photographer is an artist who applies a lens to the world and the contemporary social order. TRANSFORMATION is a gathering of powerful and intriguing images that open stories of our times and portray a world undergoing transformation.

The exhibition will also explore the transformation of the photographic process. Photography as an artistic medium has been the beneficiary of changing technologies and new materials in the last quarter century. The artist now has dramatic latitude in terms of scale and visual media. Photography is no longer just a pretty picture or a document. It can be many things at once, integrating many materials and media.

Opposite – Pieter Hugo, Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogre-Remo, Nigeria, 2007

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2021

Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
159 Ginny Stevens Lane
Blowing Rock
NC 28605

www.blowingrockmuseum.org

TJORG DOUGLAS BEER – SIMSALABIM

Posted on 2021-06-07

Five monumental ceramic sculptures are located in the major room of the exhibition space. Each of them is placed on a base in different heights, of which the ones in steel are designed by the artist. Formally, they are reminiscent of rockets and bombs. While at the same time, they show human features. Stamped with various objects from the artist’s studio, the works function as a symbiosis of anthropomorphic representation and inanimate thing. Or as assemblages of a figure and a technical object. Tjorg Douglas Beer generates situations, scenarios and objects in his works. He translates influences from literature, music, politics and life in general in exaggerated form into new contexts.

Opposite – Medium, 2018

Exhibition runs through to July 17th, 2021

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

AN-MY LE – DO-MI-NO

Posted on 2021-06-07

The title of the exhibition, đô-mi-nô, alludes to the Cold War-era geopolitical concept of “domino theory.” Đô-mi-nô is the translation from French to a Vietnamese that is the modern national version that was romanized by European Jesuit priests in the 1600s.

For over twenty-five years, the Vietnamese American photographer An-My Lê has been steadily redefining the tradition of documentary photography. Working in distinct series which often span years, her work has shown her to be one of the most reliable witnesses to the complexities of American life. Her photographs, taken with a large-format film camera, often blur the boundaries between the actual and its representation, embracing performance as a means to explore conflict and war, the military-industrial complex, and national identity through memory and place. Her clear-eyed perception and distanced perspective call into question the status of photographic ‘objectivity,’ and coax the complexities of various sociopolitical settings and of human behavior.

Opposite – Security and Stabilization Operations, Iraqi Police, from 29 Palms, 2003-2004

Exhibition runs through to August 20th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York
NY 10019

www.mariangoodman.com

GREAT WHITE

Posted on 2021-06-07

A blissful tourist trip quickly turns into a nightmare when five passengers on a seaplane become stranded miles from shore. In a desperate bid for survival, the group tries to make it to land before they either run out of supplies or are taken by a menacing terror lurking just beneath the surface.

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Available on Blu-ray, DVD & VOD July 7th