Lara Gasparotto is a young belgian photographer. She shown her work at the exhibition “Borders/NoBorders : Historical and contemporary photography of Belgium” at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, she also been selected for the Selections: Prix Voix Off 2011. She is represented by the Stieglitz 19 Gallery in Antwerp.
Keegan Mchargue fascination with the subconscious forces the viewer to engage with is work in a way that we have to confront Mchargue’s twisted subconscious itself. We, as viewers, need to work at rearranging all these associations, multiple forms, shapes and colors as well as a weird kind of ordered randomness. The result is a charming blend of everyday objects and almost recognizable silhouettes that all seem to symphonize in a strange world.
Here is how double describe themselves;
Biannual / Semestriel
Fashion / Mode
Culture / Culture
Photography / Photographie
Real / Réel
Not real / Pas Réel
Conversation / Entretien
English / Français
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The photographs in Yasumura’s series, Domestic Scandals, were taken in his parents’ middle- class home in Japan over the course of seven years. Using a four-by-five-inch camera, the artist focuses on objects as found in the home’s interior, where traditional Japanese decorations and objects have been replaced by or are juxtaposed with modern, plastic and mass-produced goods. The color-saturated photographs of everyday items and backgrounds are void of the sentimentality thought to exist within the domestic realm.
Source: Yossi Milo Gallery
Louise Bourgeois is in my personal opinion the most important women artist to have ever lived. Although she is mostly known for her spider sculptures, notably the one just outside our National Gallery in Ottawa, her body of work is gigantic and very diverse, always touching and hauntingly beautiful.
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she immigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Greatly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s, she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger and more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work: her childhood. She has famously stated, “My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s work is in the collections of most major museums around the world. She lived in New York, where she passed away in May 2010.
Source; PBS Art21. Please visit the Art21 website to watch her talk about her work.
So we are starting the new year by sharing our infinite love for books with an independent publishing company focusing obviously on photography but also on other forms of visual arts. Hassla was founded in 2007 in New Hampshire by David Schoerner and they are now operating from New York City. They are specializing in producing small editions of artist books and they focus on an intimate relation between publisher and artist to create an object that reflects the artist vision and essence. I find very interesting the fact that their catalogue offers a great mix of emerging and establish artist.
For those interested in independent publishing companies you can have a look at some previous post about MACK, Mörel, Nieves, Gottlung Verlag, and Je Suis Une Bande De Jeunes.
Freunde von Freunden is an online interview magazine that offers an insight of creatives minds in their homes and workspaces all over the world.
Bernd and Hilla Becher are a duo of German photographers and professors. They first started their collaboration by photographing and documenting the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959. Their body of work, which spans over decades and depicts the functionalist architecture in many different countries not only have rich documentary and analytical values but also had a major impact on movements such as Minimalism and Conceptual Art. From 1976 to 1996, Bernd Becher teached at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Notable formers students included Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Candida Hofer. All of their respective work are or were closely related to the Becher’s aesthetic and approach to photography, which is mostly influenced by the 1920s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) .
Michael Cina is an internationally recognized Creative Director who is currently leading a multi-disciplinary design studio, Cina Associates. Michael is known globally for originating YouWorkForThem, a graphic design boutique, and its’ sister company, WeWorkForThem, an award-winning design studio. His design portfolio includes many prominent Fortune 500 companies including Apple, American Express, ESPN, Pepsi, Coke, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Mazda, and Victoria’s Secret. Cina’s work is consistently featured in numerous publications and he has spoken at many global design conferences about his unique vision for design. He also does works that is more painterly and not intented to be commercial. Using graphic communication and visual narratives, his works explores different techniques and mediums exploring visuals possibilities that they have to offer.
