URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Love these urban photos from Hong Kong and Tokyo taken by Berlin based photographer THOMAS BIRKE (b.1982). Fascinated by life in metropolitan areas surrounded by millions of people, his vision is to create a preview of our life in the future. Birke is interested in density and tries to show at least a 1000 people or their traces in every picture. Via bumbumbum

GREEN HOUSE 

‘GREEN HOUSE’ is Korean artist KYUNG WOO HAN’s surreal work where a room appears to be 1/2 submerged under water. It’s a contribution to Gazelli Art House’s expo: ‘STILL OR SPARKLING’. His work deals with perception and illusions, creating a sense of wonder and bewilderment in its viewer. Kyung Woo Han suggests various ways to perceive things with slightly different perspectives, indicating that everything we see is not absolute. Via Yatzer 

FRAGMENTED NOSTALGIC GRACE 

Back in Feb 2010 I’ve posted some of MARLO PASCUAL’s work. But I’ve just found some more work by her that I love on triangulationblog. Marlo Pascual (b.1972) is a Brooklyn based artist who creates photo-based images, sculptures and installations that re-examines the viewer’s relationship to the photographs. 

THE OTHER SIDE//THE INSIDE

Cool drawings and collage work by Latvian artist VALERIJA ILCHUK

Money can buy you love

Collages by American conceptual artist BARBARA KRUGER (b.1945 New Jersey). Most of her work consists of found photographs in black and white with provocative phrases – the idea being to question meaning and create new ones. Her early work as a graphic designer and art director for magazines such as Condé Nast Publications, Mademoiselle, House and Garden is a great influence in her work as an artist. Barbara lives and works in NYC and LA. She is represented by SPRÜTH MAGERS gallery in London.

Saturday morning at the hypermarket: Miss Lovely Legs Competition

Black n’ white photographs by South African artist DAVID GOLDBLATT (b.1930). For decades, Goldblatt has photographed South African life through the period of Apartheid to today. His photos feature landscape, structure, people and context. His work is held in major museum collections worldwide.

The Camel’s humps and the ironing board

Above installation view from JENNIFER ALLORA (b.1974, USA) & GUILLERMO GALZADILLA (b.1971, Cuba) exhibition @ Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris that took place in Sept.-Oct. 2010. The artists presented five works organized around the principle of physical displacements one of which was this funny sculpture’The Camel’s Humps & the Ironing Board’ (2010). The two artists have been working together since 1995. They live and work in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Juan in Puerto Rico. Via triangulationblog

ALTERING APPEARANCES

HORST P.HORST (1906-1999) is currently part of a larger group exhibition @ MoMA entitled ‘THE ORIGINAL COPY: PHOTOGRAPHY OF SCULPTURE, 1839 TO TODAY (Aug 1-Nov 1, 2010). The exhibition explores the status of photography both as an art form and a medium of communication. As well as the intersections between photography and sculpture and how one medium has been implicated in the analysis and creative redefinition of the other. Photography both informs and challenges our understanding of what a sculpture is. HORST P.HORST is a representative of avant-garde photography which emerged in the 1920s with Surrealism, where artists tried to tap the supernatural influences of puppets, mannequins etc to create images that altered appearances. Horst’s approach to portraiture was to create a parallel aspirational universe in which his subjects became mysterious and alluring.

Horst P.Horst was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in Germany and later moved to America. He is best known for his elegant and glamourous fashion photographs featured in Vogue, but also for his environmental photographs. In his approach to portraiture, Horst set out to create a parallel aspirational universe in which his subjects became mysterious and alluring. Besides being featured in fashion magazines, Horst’s work was displayed in museums in NYC, London and Cologne, Germany. He is represented by Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.

I WANT A DIVORCE

Collage work from Los Angeles based artist KIRSTEN STOLTMANN (b.1968 Milwaukee). Her work references her Midwestern roots and themes such as feminism, sexuality & consumerism. Kirsten Stoltmann collaborated in an exhibition @ Guild & Greyshkul in Soho together with Amanda Ross-Ho. (See previous post). Kirsten Stoltmann is represented by Guild & Greyshkul & Brennan Griffin in New York.

NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010 @ MoMA

Los Angeles based artist AMANDA ROSS-HO (b.1975 in Chicago) is currently part of New Photography 2010 @ MoMA (Sept.29,2010-Jan.10,2011) together with Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry & Alex Prager. NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010 explore the relationship between straight and constructed photograph, image and picture. Amanda combines apparently mismatched media, including found objects, drawings, paintings, photographs, video and sculpture into her work. Check out my previous postings with work by Elad Lassry & Alex Prager. Amanda’s work is inspired by the material culture and the idea that everything can be recycled in the creative process. Amanda Ross-Ho is represented by Cherry & Martin in Los Angeles & Mitchell-Innes & Nash in NYC. She was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2008.