ANGELS RIBE – IN THE LABYRINTH

Posted on 2011-08-29

This exhibition by Àngels Ribé covers a period of her production from the late 1960s to the mid-eighties. It is centred on relatively unknown works that are nevertheless significant for the artist’s body of work as a whole and for the development of contemporary art in our country. At the end of the sixties, a new aesthetic model appeared that had a fundamental influence on the creation of new ways of conceiving the artistic practice. The associative and symbolic functions of art are renegotiated: the artwork ceases to be an autonomous entity, as was the norm in the modernist tradition, and its meaning becomes dependent on an interchange with the spectator. In this way, the ambiguity and the multiplicity of references and readings that are an intrinsic part of the work of art are revealed.

Opposite – Invisible Geometry 2, 1973

Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011

MACBA
Plaça dels Angels, 1
08001
Barcelona

www.macba.cat

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BORDERS – A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT

Posted on 2011-08-29

In this exhibit Noah Kalina, Emily Shur, and Noe Montes all deal with the ideas of borders in the photography.

Noah Kalina deals with the border between still and video, performance art and photography. He uses the traditional border of a still photo with the camera on a tripod and incorporates a story with movement inside that frame. Each video is 1 shot and no editing; a friend lying on a couch as another friends rides around her in circles; Noah doing pushups in his new studio; a young couple holding hands, knee deep in the ocean staring straight at the camera, still for 1 minute.

Emily Shur is showing pieces from her “Nature Calls” series, which are photos of cellphone tower trees in their environment. These scenes blur the line between nature, business, the need for communication, and the need to feel as if we are surrounded by nature in the built environment.

Noe Montes photographed objects around his parents home in Yuma Arizona and scenes in El Paso Texas while visiting these areas which he grew up in and around. These objects represent the border between the hopes and dreams of a new object and the reality of it being discarded or sat on a shelf unnoticed for years. Seemingly mundane, an old boom box on a couch, a broken touchtone telephone, and a statue of a horse head on a shelf, these are the same things he returns to each time he visits, which bring back the memories of home and family for better or for worse before he moved away.

Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011

THIS Los Angeles.com
5906 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042

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SANTU MOFOKENG – CHASING SHADOWS

Posted on 2011-08-29

The exhibition and the accompanying book bring together a unique selection of the photographic essays made by Santu Mofokeng over the last thirty years.
Well-known from his projects Black Photo Album/Look at me: 1890-1900s, Township Billboards: Beauty, sex and cell phones, Trauma Landscapes and Chasing Shadows, the South African artist took the opportunity of the invitation for this show and the production of his first comprehensive monograph, to delve deep into his artistic archive.

Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows – 30 years of photographic essays, presents a selection of more than 200 images (photographs and a slideshow), texts and documents. The photographic essays he composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes, including his most current project Radiant Landscapes, commissioned specially for this retrospective.

Opposite – Winter In Tembisa, 1989

Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011

Jeu de Paume
1 place de la Concorde
75008
Paris

www.jeudepaume.org

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