CINDY SHERMAN – UNTITLED HORRORS

Posted on 2014-07-21

Cindy Sherman (*1954) has enjoyed a long and remarkable career. Her works have been shown in many of the world’s leading museums, but she has never before been the subject of a solo exhibition in Zurich. At the heart of the retrospective ’Cindy Sherman – Untitled Horrors’ is the grotesque, the gruesomely shocking in her work, from the earliest days through to most recent times.
Her first works date from 1975. She created them at home, using an external shutter release. Even at this stage, she was already dramatizing different (gender) roles and constantly changing identities. These only rarely shown early works are receiving a comprehensive presentation in the exhibition, enabling visitors to see and appreciate the oeuvre of Cindy Sherman in its full breadth.

Opposite – Untitled #150, 1985

Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH–8001
Zurich

www.kunsthaus.ch

  

DRIVING L.A.

Posted on 2014-07-21

Driving L.A., a group exhibition of photographs by sixteen artists (Tim Bradley, Jeff Brouws, Sean Hiller, E.O. Hoppé, John Humble, Michael Light, Malcolm Lubliner, Richard C. Miller, Jerry McMillan, Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman, Marvin Silver, John Swope, Mark Swope George Tate, Julian Wasser) represented by Craig Krull Gallery will, of course, include pictures made while driving, but it will also explore our lifestyles and built environments as they have taken shape on the streets of L.A. in the form of billboards, dingbats, car washes, drive-ins, freeways and maps-to-the-stars’-homes. But the driving culture of L.A. also includes those stationary cars on Hollywood studio sound stages with a film of passing scenery running behind them. It also includes an imagined L.A., as exemplified by Tim Bradley’s staged photo of a model he created of an El Camino with the giant framework of a church under construction on its bed. It is a haunting combination of our peripatetic lives and our often bizarre history of cults and pop-up religions.

Opposite – Joan Didion in front of her Stingray, 1970, Julian Wasser

Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2014

Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404

www.craigkrullgallery.com

  

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE – SYRIA IN 1940

Posted on 2014-07-21

In 1940, seven months before the United States entered World War II, LIFE magazine sent photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the first female photojournalist, to the young republic of Syria in order to document its pivotal role — culturally, geographically, militarily — in the region. The exhibition will survey more than 15 photographs taken by Bourke-White, which landed her a featured photographic essay. The Syrian assignment for Bourke-White is illuminating in the context of today’s civil war and Syria’s major position both in the Middle East and on the global stage. The photographs on view are the vintage prints used for the production of the magazine.

Opposite – Senegalese soldiers, 1940

Howard Greenberg Gallery
The Fuller Building
41 East 57 Street
Suite 1406
New York
NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com

  

NIGHT IN DAY

Posted on 2014-07-14

Since the invention of photography, artists have looked to the night as a rich subject for photographic exploration. Between sunset and sunrise, when the responsibilities of the day give way to the autonomy of the night, the world takes on a mysterious glow that is rich with metaphor and innuendo.

The exhibition title, Night in Day, references a poem by Joseph Stroud that reflects on those slivers of the night that punctuate our days, literally and symbolically. This exhibition includes a wide range of photographic nocturnes from a southwest moonrise to an impossibly bright Antarctic midnight, from a silhouetted figurative sculpture to the piercing eye contact of a costumed reveler, and a misty landscape that assumes the look of midnight through the use of infrared film. Selected from LACMA’s collection and spanning the last 100 years, the exhibition includes work by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Larry Clark, Florian Maier-Aichen, Edward Steichen, Karl Struss, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, among others.

Opposite – Lewis Baltz, Night Construction, Reno, 1977

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2014

LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036

www.lacma.org

  

F__K__U

Posted on 2014-07-14

The exhibition’s title echoes Tupac’s last words recalled by a police officer in a recent Buzzfeed article. Each artist’s work in this exhibition focuses on abstracted text and master signifiers assigned to popular icons, historical incidents and trends. When Tupac said “Fuck You” it took on a more ethereal and true sound… Was Tupac just saying “Fuck You” to the cop asking “Who shot you?” or was it a bigger statement? Should we ask his hologram?

Focusing on our changing relationship to text due to the information mega-stream of the internet, the participating artists create work that relates to how language is used, manipulated, satirized and omitted. Photo based non-narratives like scrolling through Facebook, sarcastic layering of corporate imagery and slogans, complicated authorship, and familiar statements mixed with ubiquitous symbols of identity such as Infinite tie dye, spikes, and rubber.

While using visual puns, cryptic language, made up correspondence, and every day phrases each artist has a distinct approach and sensibility while sharing a similar kind of attitude.

Opposite – Sandy Kim, Untitled, 2013

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2014

KRAVETS | WEHBY
521 West 21st Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011

www.kravetswehbygallery.com

  

JOHN HEDGECOE – VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND!

Posted on 2014-07-14

One of Britain’s leading post-war portrait photographers, Hedgecoe was also the world’s best-selling writer on practical photography, having sold some 9 million books worldwide. As a student at the RCA he first photographed Henry Moore in 1953. In 1957 Hedgecoe joined Queen magazine as staff photographer, under the editorship of Jocelyn Stevens. In 1965 Hedgecoe founded the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, and was Professor of Photography from 1975–1994.

VIVAT! VIVAT! MY ENGLAND! presents a selection of 34 of Hedgecoe’s most iconic photographs, some of which will be exhibited for the first time.

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2014

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2EU

www.rca.ac.uk