Gallery Visits
Gallery Visits
Gallery Visits
18 October 2012 - 27 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission Somerset House, East Wing Galleries, East Wing Strand, London, WC2R 1LA Tim Walker is one of the most visually exciting and influential fashion photographers working today. Extravagant in scale and ambition and instantly recognisable for their eye-opening originality, Walkers photographs dazzle with life, colour and humour. His recent work is drawn from the pages of the worlds leading magazines: British, French, American and Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, W and The New Yorker among many others. Walkers photographs provide the focus of the exhibition, but the camera, he claims, is simply a box put between you and what you want to capture. Everything in Walkers pictures is specially constructed and in a glimpse behind the mechanics, there are installations and a selection of the extraordinary props and models on show: giant grotesque dolls for Italian Vogue and an almost life-size replica of a doomed Spitfire fighter plane. The photo shoot begins to resemble the film set: hair and make-up artists, fashion stylists and costume fitters, model makers, set designers, builders, producers and painters, prop suppliers and a cast of models playing out imagined roles. At the centre is Walker harnessing creative and technical talents to conjure up the harmonious whole in a singular picture.
Featuring 10 Cartier-Bresson photographs never before exhibited in the UK alongside over 75 works by 14 international acclaimed photographers, this extensive showcase will illustrate how photographers working in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the master's ethos famously known as the decisive moment' to their work in colour. Though they often departed from the concept in significant ways, something of that challenge remained: how to seize something that happens and capture it in the very moment that it takes place.
Domingo Milella
23 November 2012 - 26 January 2013, Monday-Friday 10.00-19.00, Saturday 11.00-17.00, Free admission Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery 43-44 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4JJ Domingo Milella's solo exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, his first in the UK, features new images of important ancient sites in the Mediterranean, where remnants of power, culture, life and death are captured. Over the last ten years, Milella's subjects have been cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs - in short, signs of man's presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilization and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. The exhibition will also include Milella's Index, a compendium of 30 of the most evocative images from his last decade of work, presented as a visual sequence of the themes and subjects that constitute his vision and quest. Milella has said of his work, "Making images doesn't only mean documenting or taking photographs. It's also a possibility for contemplation and recollection. Building an image of the past is to face the present, and activate the possibility of the future."
Jonas Mekas
5 December 2012 - 27 January 2013, Daily 10.00-18.00, Free admission Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA
Film-maker, artist and poet Jonas Mekas is a leading figure of avant-garde and independent cinema. The exhibition presents the artist's film, video and photographic works from throughout his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career. On his arrival in New York in 1949, Mekas bought his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of the world around him. He quickly became a central figure in the burgeoning arts community, alongside friends and collaborators such as Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and film-makers Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren. Mekas brings a poet's sensibility to the diary film style that permeates his work. His vision is unique in its ability to capture personal moments of beauty, celebration and joy. Developing his diaristic film style in the 1960s, he has become best known for his 'film diaries' in which he recorded, with great sensitivity, his day-to-day activities as well as those of his peers from the film and arts community in New York.
A small brook on Dartmoor, Devon near the artists studio is the focus for this new series of images. Two different views of the brooks surface, from above and below, explore themes of reflection and immersion that echo experiences of place as a site of memory and loss, the flow of time and changing perceptions..This flux of internal experience in contact with a changing external landscape is captured in over twenty photographs that are ravishingly beautiful yet unsettling. .The viewer is destabilised and disoriented by images of water, crossings, bridges and gates that could be familiar everyday encounters but are not quite what they seem. Reflections falling onto the waters surface, views from its underside, shadows thrown across the undulating ripples of the brook all give rise to an experience similar to that of the dream state and at the same time question the apparent solidity of our perceptions.
Arnatts instruction. The work KEITH ARNATT IS AN ARTIST questions the role of the artist as a whole. Arnatt was also interested in expanding the meaning and function of an artwork in terms of its relationship to the discrete acts of bringing a work into being. Later groups of photographs such as Walking the Dog and The Forest from the 1970s and 80s reveal Arnatts analytic method of working and emphasise the point at which he adopted the camera as his primary tool for producing art rather than documenting it. Series from this period use an observational style influenced by Arnatts awareness of the typological preoccupations of artists and photographers as diverse as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Robert Adams.
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Group-Show: Everything was moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s
13 September 2012 - 13 January 2013, Daily 11.00-18.00, Admission Fee Barbican Gallery, Barbican Centre Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades th of the 20 Century. Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s tells a history of photography, through the photography of history. It brings together over 350 works, some rarely seen, others recently discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time. Everything Was Moving opens at Barbican Art Gallery on 13 September 2012. It features key figures of modern photography including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov and Shomei Tomatsu, as well as important practitioners whose lives were cut tragically short such as Ernest Cole and Raghubir Singh. Each contributor has, in different ways, advanced the aesthetic language of photography, as well as engaging with the world they inhabit in a profound and powerful way.