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 Sally Mann: Gagosian GalleryGagosian Gallery announced the exhibition of large-format photographs by Sally Mann.Executed between 2000 and 2004, these works consist of images of the faces of her three children Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia. These powerful images of Mann's children are simultaneously painterly and photographic. They are made from wet-plate collodion negatives, produced by coating a sheet of glass with ether-based collodion and submerging it in silver nitrate. The resulting light sensitive plate, loaded into a plate holder and attached to the camera, must be exposed while still wet, a period of approximately six minutes. The photographers who originally used this method, which was introduced in 1851, worked to perfect the process and avoid irregularities. Sally Mann, however, embraces these aberrations; she celebrates the peculiar flares, stains and dust trails unique to the collodion process. She describes them as serendipitous, as "perfect flaws" which help create the mystical and poetic quality of the photographs. Perhaps because of the lengthy exposures (as long as 6 minutes and never less than 3), the images possess a transcendent timelessness. It may be this sense of suspended time, as much as genetics, that renders the faces of Mann's children eerily interchangeable. Enigmatic, they seem to be awaiting the viewer's glance to wake from their shadowed stillness and take their next breath. event (ended) current design events more info www.gag... (373) design directory Gagosian Gallery > Art Galleries added by Levent OZLER |
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 Derek JarmanThe Derek Jarman exhibition will present a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation.Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, it will highlight Jarman's work in film and painting, including his pioneering presentation of the moving image within the gallery context. Jarman was arguably the single most crucial figure of British independent cinema in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. He struggled for Gay Liberation and with the impact of AIDS and lived as a participant observer, recording all that passed before him, from punk to Thatcher, Hampstead Heath to film premiere. This exhibition is a timely reappraisal of Jarman's work, conceived as an immersive environment by Julien, featuring rarely seen films from the Derek Jarman Super-8 archive, an installation of his film Blue, 1993, as well as a selection of his paintings. Julien has also created a series of photographic lightboxes documenting Jarman's cottage and garden in Dungeness. The exhibition will mark the premiere of Julien's new film about Jarman, Derek, the centre of which is a day-long interview Jarman recorded in 1990. The film includes a narration by Tilda Swinton and clips of Jarman's films, juxtaposed with news and footage of the current affairs from the times that this life illuminated. It is a film of Jarman's life as well as the story of England from the 1960s to the 1980s. event (ended) current design events more info www.ser... (75) design directory Serpentine Gallery > Art Galleries added by Levent OZLER |
 Stern Fotografie No. 47: Peter LindberghThis is the third Fotografie feature on the world-famous, German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh.Once described as a "poet of glamour," Lindbergh is renowned for mixing rawness with high style. This volume focuses on his work since 2000 and was selected by the photographer himself. Showcasing well-known faces in innovative and sometimes startling ways, Lindbergh continues to re-define fashion photography. more astore.... (137) added by Levent OZLER |
 Savannah Film Festival Accepting Submissions for 2008 FestivalThe Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is accepting professional and student film submissions for the 2008 festival, Oct.25 - Nov.1.Competition categories include animation, documentary feature, documentary short, narrative feature, narrative short and student. To be eligible for the student competition, entrants must be enrolled in an academic institution or have completed their film while enrolled. No works in progress will be accepted. All entries must be postmarked by June 16. Notification of selected entries will be completed by Sept. 15. The Savannah Film Festival features independent, innovative and influential film from around the world, as well as workshops, panel discussions and presentations of well-known visiting artists and filmmakers. In 2006, all but one of the evening gala screenings went on to be nominated for an Academy Award, and all but two of those films won the Oscar in their category. competition (ended) current design competitions more Savannah Film Festival Accepting Submissions for 2008 Festival design directory SCAD : The Savannah College of Art and Design > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
 StyrofoamStyrofoam, extruded or expanded polystyrene, is a material known for its resistance to moisture and its buoyancy.Its uses range widely from building insulation and model-building to product packaging and coffee cups. In recent years, artists have used Styrofoam in a variety of new and ingenious ways. Taking advantage of the material's lightness, cheapness, and facility for shaping, they carve into it, mold it, and assemble it into entirely new forms and images. The artists' adaptation or transformation of Styrofoam often contrasts with its original intended function, and environmental concerns about use and reuse may be implicit in some of the artworks. This exhibition features work by artists who have experimented with Styrofoam, expanding definitions of what painting and sculpture can be in the process. Artists in the exhibition include: Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Tom Friedman, Folkert de Jong, Steve Keister, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Pearson, Shirley Tse, Richard Tuttle, B. Wurtz. event (ended) current design events more info www.ris... (227) design directory Rhode Island School of Design > Design Education added by Levent OZLER |
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