10 April 2008

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Galerie Emmanuel Post Leipzig Miron Zownir radical eye 4 Apr - 3 May 2008 In radical eye, Berlin artist Miron Zownir (b. 1953, Karlsruhe, Germany) presents a cross section of his b/w photographs from Berlin, New York, and Moscow, in which he unmasks social taboos with a relentlessly direct approach. 'He tests the limits of reality and surpasses the limitations of traditional photography, the separation of idealization on-show and strict documentation in innumerable photo- sessions. The streets of the neon-illuminated concrete-labyrinths are the highways of self- production, the stage of the exhibitionists who are turned on by Zownir's camera' (Nico Anfuso). Social outcasts of varying shades become distorted, symbolic documents of everyday madness: underground performers, radical artists, criminals, punks, junkies, self-assured prostitutes, or sexual outlaws. The catalogue 'radical eye - the photography of miron zownir' (Die Gestalten Verlag, 1997) is available. "Zownir creates a mysterious sense of timelessness that takes the viewer to the realm of hyper-reality. It is impossible not to feel an intense emotional response when exposed to Zownir's work. He is one of those rare artists whose empathy burns through his images, championing misfits and dreamers who live out their lives a long way beneath the radar of "acceptable" society - just in between the blank spaces of the newspaper obituaries, and the dark shadows of the tenement housing blocks" (DAZED & CONFUSED, Issue 55, November 2007). Miron Zownir, once labeled by the American author Terry Southern as THE POET OF RADICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, took up photography in the late 70s during the hey-days of the punk-phenomenon, delivering a tight portrayal of the movement and its peculiar attitude towards life in limbo between a utopian vision of anarchy and nihilistic self- destruction. In 1980, he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for the next fifteen years; first in New York, then in Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. In New York, back then arguably the world's most fascinating and permissive metropolis, Zownir's peculiar approach to cover the city's multiple-layered day-to-day lunacy was quickly recognised by the local scene and earned him a reputation as the TEUTONIC PHENOMENOGRAPHER (Village Voice). Shot in moody, expressionistic b/w, Zownir's pictures from that period give a penetrating insight to inner-city sub-cultural spheres, which, in their original local context, have since perished in the boom of the 90s. His lens captured the untamed lust at the gay-parties, just shortly before Aids massively claimed its victims; the futile protest of artists and offbeat performers against the increasing commercialisation of Manhattan; the hopelessness on the Bowery; the shadowy world of hookers, bums, junkies. Zownir's photographs of the 'Sex Piers' have become legendary documents by now. The shut-down and dilapidated port area located between the Westside Highway and the Hudson River, with its sunbathing section for nudists and the surrounding 'halls of the anonymous lust', was a popular meeting place among the gay- scene. [continued] Image: Miron Zownir Hottest Show, NYC 1982 b/w print 40 x 30 cm framed 41,7 x 51,6 cm Courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig Galerie Emmanuel Post Windmühlenstraße 31b Leipzig D-04107 Germany Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig Miron Zownir Read on... Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig

Gallery Van Kranendonk Den Haag Jan Adriaans 'Spendor Inside the Walls' 6 Apr - 3 May 2008 The places are deserted and the onlooker is denied entry; the spectator's gaze is halted at the surface of the opaque image. There is neither an apparent top nor bottom, neither foreground nor background as the images of Jan Adriaans maintain a confusion among planes. The photographer frames his subjects close-up and reinforces the scrambling of relationships among scales and depths. The unilateral perspective of the camera completes the blurring of perceptions. Stripped of any concept of space, the 'platitude' of the subject matter suddenly becomes literal. These 'interiors', so evasive and confounding, offer nothing more than surfaces with their textures and colours. The thickness of black tarpaulin, with its heavy folds and almost shiny surface, the faded blood red carpet, the metallic echo of a mirror, the dull sheen of wood veneer. The spirit of the place gradually transpires through its skin. (text Raphaëlle Stopin, Festival International de Mode et de Photographie) Image: Jan Adriaans Ultrabright, close to being deaf 120 x 145 cm 2007 Copyright the artist, courtesy of Gallery Van Kranendonk, Den Haag Gallery Van Kranendonk Westeinde 29 Den Haag 2512 GS Netherlands Gallery Van Kranendonk, Den Haag Jan Adriaans Read on... Gallery Van Kranendonk, Den Haag

David Weinberg Gallery Chicago Elizabeth Opalenik Poetic Grace 18 Apr - May 31 2008 David Weinberg Gallery is proud to present Poetic Grace, a retrospective of the work of Elizabeth Opalenik. In this show, the gallery will showcase work from the photographer, spanning 28 years, featuring pieces from her recently published and first monograph, "Poetic Grace: Elizabeth Opalenik Photographs 1979-2007". Elizabeth will be present for a book signing event during the opening. Elizabeth Opalenik is regarded as one of the most creative photographers of our time. She is known for her sensual images, including work in the Mordançage process (taught to her by the master, Jean Pierre Sudre), hand painted black and white, infrared films, Polaroid manipulations and specialized toning. With limitless creativity, Elizabeth has found her voice as a photographic artist, learning that all good photographs are self-portraits that lie somewhere between imagination and dreams. Ms. Opalenik was raised on a farm outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, living as a neighbor to the Amish and their uncomplicated ways. Her upbringing continues to reverberate in the personal images she creates. Her ongoing projects are as diverse as her life experience, whether a figure study in water, a serene black and white photograph of Amish daily life, or an image from her most recent body of work, "Poetry in Motion," which captures fluid, watercolor-like grace as the artist expresses her childhood dreams of becoming a dancer. A highly sought after educator, Ms. Opalenik teaches international workshops privately on the figure, portraiture, and alternative processes, and has been teaching multiple workshops over more than 20 years in partnership with the Maine Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and National Geographic Expeditions, among others. She works with breast cancer patients through the F Holland Day Center for Creativity and Healing using photography as a visual voice for discovering the beauty within. Elizabeth has lectured throughout the United States as a board member of Freestyle Photographic Supplies, has been a distinguished lecturer at the School of Journalism, Visual Communications, University of Texas, Austin and has been guest speaker for many chapters of the ASMP, PPA and BAPC. Ms. Opalenik's work is in museum, gallery and private collections throughout the world including La Bibliotheque Nationale - France; The Portland Museum of Art; and The Milwaukee Art Museum among others. She has been shown in over sixty exhibitions internationally. Elizabeth's photographs have appeared in numerous books on photography and in magazines such as: Camera Arts, PDN, Silvershotz, Collectors Photography, Photo Design, Popular Photography, Zoom and editorially in Life Magazine, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Golf Magazine, Diablo Magazine, Victoria Magazine and many others. As Elizabeth says, "from portraits to landscapes, our images are stepping stones that trace where the mind has been and form the unique vision each of us carries through life." Elizabeth teaches that by revealing ourselves, we discover new ways of seeing. Her desire is to respond to the light and to the essence of the subject of her images, creating a lasting yet momentous representation of a lifetime of moments and experience. Ms. Opalenik resides in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, where she uses her former life experiences as Accounting Manager for Continental Oil, interior designer, restaurateur, woman contractor and childhood memories of western Pennsylvania farm life to fuel her creativity. Image: Elizabeth Opalenik Outer light, inner peace San Miguel de Allende Mexico, 2005 Courtesy of David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago The current photography exhibition at David Weinberg Gallery, Two Solo Shows - Sebastian Lemm & Amanda Friedman will close on April 12, 2008 David Weinberg Gallery 300 W Superior Street Suite 203 Chicago, IL 60610 David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago Read on... David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago

Curator's Office Washington DC Corpus Jason Horowitz 12 Apr -21 June 2008 Jason Horowitz's provocative large-scale photographs have stopped people in their tracks in DC, Miami, New York, and Portland. Working at the intersection of landscape and anonymous portraiture, Horowitz finds new ground to explore about the human body, not an easy task in our image-saturated society. Horowitz plays with the tension between attraction and repulsion. By exploding scale, he reveals not only the fascinating visual terrain of the body but also challenges our own hidden or unspoken biases about beauty, ugliness, body-image, race, sexuality, aging, and the thresholds of exhibitionism. Corpus is an on-going exploration of people and the human form. The photographs are 42"x63" archival pigment prints that reveal a hyper-realistic amount of detail about the subject. The images explore the relationship between photographic representation and painterly abstraction and the formal elements in tension with the emotional content of the subject matter. Shot with the same "glamour" lighting set-up used for fashion images, these photographs subvert that process to look at what is real rather than ideal. Larger than life, these images become a vehicle for looking deeply at one's self and others. This is the debut solo exhibition of Jason Horowitz's work at Curator's Office. Horowitz has exhibited his work at Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC; Peer Gallery, New York, NY; Blue Sky Art Center, Portland, OR; Scope Hamptons, East Hampton, NY; Aqua Art Miami Fair, Miami Beach, FL; The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; PASS Gallery, Washington, DC; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany; McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; the Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA; Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Georgetown University Art Gallery, Washington, DC; School 33, Baltimore, MD; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; and the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. His work is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He is a recent winner of the 2007 Aaron Siskind Award in Photography. Image: Jason Horowitz Scott archival digital print mounted onto Sintra 42" x 63" 2007 Courtesy of Curator's Office, Washington DC Curator's Office 1515 14th Street NW #201 Washington, DC 20005 Curator's Office, Washington DC Read on... Curator's Office, Washington DC

Galerie Magda Danysz Paris GRIEF Erwin Olaf 5 Apr - 17 May 2008 The Magda Danysz Gallery and Flatland Gallery present the worldwide famous photographer Erwin Olaf. In his most recent series, Grief, it is as if "everything stops before the music starts". As one of the most talented photographer he is in the most prestigious collections as the Ludwig Museum, Groninger Museum, Art+Public and the Margulies, and has shown in museums as the Moscou Museum of modern art, the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, the Toronto MOCCA or the Paris MEP. In his most recent series, Grief, it is as if "everything stops before the music starts" As Jonathan Turner puts it "In his portrait photographs Amsterdam-based artist Erwin Olaf plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice. His recent imagery is based on American aristocracy in the early 1960s. It blends journalistic details with staged emotions. In Grief, Olaf's latest series currently on show, solitary figures brood in tearful silence, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope and joy were all lost. Nothing is as it seems and in Erwin's recreated world, nothing is real." "Grief is a series about the choreography of emotion, and what you can create in the studio," says Erwin Olaf. Image: Erwin Olaf Caroline, 2007 Courtesy of Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris Galerie Magda Danysz 78, rue Amelot Paris 11 Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris Read on... Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris

Bellwether New York ANNE HARDY 15 Apr - 17 May 2008 We are pleased to announce the opening of ANNE HARDY's debut New York solo exhibition at Bellwether. Hardy constructs interior environments in her London studio from discarded and found materials, creating sculptural installations for the lens. The resulting photographs depict unpopulated worlds in which signs of human use are everywhere - from the patinated surfaces of castoff possessions to the presence of the artist's own hand. These carefully staged images imply performances of the everyday and propose a number of spaces dedicated to the less public pursuits of a set of unseen protagonists whose behavior and personality is carried in the accumulation and arrangement of objects and detritus left behind. There is a tension in these images between the systematic order of controlled experiments and the entropic decay that has overtaken them - a conflict between humanity's indexical inclinations and an inevitable anarchy. Hardy's starting point may be a single object or idea, which instigates the gradual evolution of each installation. Like a fiction writer whose characters seem to take on lives of their own, Hardy allows her compositions to develop freely without narrowly defined goals. Acting as both visual composer and oblique storyteller, the artist suggests ambiguous narratives through her deliberately constructed images. For this exhibition, Hardy presents five recent photographs. Their darker palette depicts a variety of spaces - the basement of a time-worn nightclub, a ravaged recording studio, a subterranean exercise lair, a closet-sized personal firing range, and a wildly cluttered and curlicued lobby with a set of turquoise stairs leading off into the unknown. Hardy's complex practice makes reference to sculpture, installation and film. Anne Hardy received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2000, and has since participated in numerous prestigious international exhibitions including solo shows at Maureen Paley, London and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Her work will be featured in the upcoming exhibitions Out of Focus: Photography Now at the Saatchi Gallery, London, and New Photography in Britain at Galleria Civica de Modena, Italy, for which a catalog will be published. Her photograph Outpost (2007) is currently on view in Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art at the Barbican Gallery, London. Hardy was also featured in group exhibitions at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria and Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland. Her work has been discussed in Vitamin Ph, New Art from London, and The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Hardy lives and works in London. Image: Ann Hardy Untitled VII 137 X 190 cm Diasec mounted c-type print Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2007 Courtesy of BELLWETHER, New York BELLWETHER 134 Tenth Avenue (between 18th and 19th Streets) NY 10011, New York BELLWETHER, New York Read on... BELLWETHER, New York

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