ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA – FAMILY SKIN

Posted on 2020-11-30

The theme of the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska is the human body – and especially that of the female – as a projection surface. Handed down notions, fantasies, prejudices and alienation are the focus of her series of works. Using photographic and sculptural means, she explores the construction of a physical aesthetic as an ideal image, and also by opposing it with the traces of age and disfigurement.
The human skin-shell is the proverbial surface of that which is visible, and thus oscillates between truth, fiction and elegant illusion.

Opposite – Mama #32, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2021

Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museumstr. 14
4010 Linz

www.ooelkg.at

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UTE MAHLER & WERNER MAHLER

Posted on 2020-11-30

For this series, both photographers toured Europe’s major rivers and streams – the Elbe, Rhine/Waal, Danube, Po and Volga – where social, ecological, political, economic and historical themes become apparent and enable both artists to create a superlative portrait of Europe. In images that are both emotionally powerful and photographically impressive, they depict extracts from life, architecture, and portraits along Europe’s biggest streams. The artists started at the Elbe, the Rhine and the Danube in Bulgaria in 2019.

The Po followed that autumn and in February 2020 they continued on their journey to the Volga. Visits to other rivers – the Rhône, Dnieper and Tagus – are planned. Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler who have been working together for a few years now are photographing the series in black and white with an analogue large-format camera.

Opposite – Ute & Werner Mahler; Po #412 – At the Streams / An den Strömen, 2019

Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2021

Galerie Springer Berlin
Fasanenstr. 13
10623 Berlin

www.galeriespringer.de

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JEROEN HOFMAN – ZEELAND

Posted on 2020-11-30

“Zeeland” is a popular holiday destination in general. People from various nationalities gather here, at the edge of the North Sea. The coastline still shows so-called natural traces within the cultural landscape, meaning that this land was shaped by two forces, nature and humankind.

This is a multifaceted landscape: harsh, raw, fine, empty, and seemingly endless. This region, which Jeroen Hofman visually describes, represents a bridge between the past and the current era. Its history is reflected in the waves breaking on the sand of its vast beaches. The flat strips of open land reaching all the way to the horizon set a very particular scene for the northern light. A characteristic light depicted perfectly by the 17th century Dutch painters. The current face of the same landscape is marked by ingenious solutions of creative and motivated individuals defying the seasons and the tides to demand compensation from the soil for what the sea has always and continues to reclaim.

Opposite – Radar, Zeeusws Vlaanderen, Zeeland

Exhibition runs through to September 15th, 2021

CLERVAUX – CITÉ DE L’IMAGE
11, Grand-Rue
9710 Clervaux

www.clervauximage.lu

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PATTY CARROLL – COLLAPSE AND CALAMITY

Posted on 2020-11-23

The exhibition features new work from Patty Carroll’s series “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise”. Works including Staired Down, Cleaned Out, and Flagged Down feel particularly relevant to the tumultuous and exhausting past year. “Anonymous Women” is 3-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. By camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman. Aint-Bad Books recently published a new monograph of her work Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise, which is available to purchase at the gallery.

Opposite – Cleaned Out, 2018

Exhibition runs through to December 5th, 2020

Catherine Couturier Gallery
2635 Colquitt Street
Houston
TX 77098

www.catherinecouturier.com

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JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT – TWENTY FIVE ICONS OF AMERICA

Posted on 2020-11-23

In 2020, French-American photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont received The Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism and The Visa D’Or Award of the Figaro Magazine for Lifetime Achievement.

For more than three decades, starting in 1964, Jean-Pierre Laffont travelled all fifty states seeking to document as wide of a range of compelling American stories, and he also photographed celebrities both French and American along with all the politicians of the times. He spent eight years at the White House as a foreign correspondent and photographed several presidents. He produced in-depth photo essays of the rise of the World Trade Center, the gangs in the Bronx, and the violence on 42nd Street.

Opposite – Robert Kennedy campaigning, Brooklyn, NY, December 1st, 1967

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
100 Crosby St, #603
New York
NY 10012

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

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JAKOB DE BOER – WHERE RAVENS CRY

Posted on 2020-11-23

In many ways, Where Ravens Cry was about going back in time – back into my earliest childhood memories of the Pacific NorthWest, but also into the origins of the mythology of this place. I have always wanted to stand in places where myths were birthed. Being there, one is reminded that beginnings are defined by time. By combining ‘photographed’ elements through juxtaposition, a kind of duality between the ‘real’ and the ‘created’ – meaning time – was birthed. Pre-Myth represents the whole of the work as all things were born out of it. In working on it, the sculptural nature of the Pre-Myth piece shifted my photographic thought process. When I crossed over the invisible barrier of “yes I can put these images together”, my photographic process changed.

Jakob de Boer

Opposite – Sproat Lake, Where Ravens Cry #26, 2016

Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020

Maine Museum Of Photographic Arts (MMPA)
2525 Michigan Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.marshallcontemporary.com

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