We are happy to announce the opening of Your Silent Face, an exhibition featuring Luca Andreoni’s latest project Inferno 1911 and a selection of works by Zhou Siwei, who makes his Italian debut here. The exhibition will be opening on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 6 pm at VIASATERNA, Milan.
«My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real & Ideal & sacrificing nothing of Truth by all possible devotion to poetry and beauty.» Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December 1864 Julia Margaret Cameron’s major exhibition, celebrating the bicentenary…
Each Spring, Foam organises an Open Call – among the most coveted of the photographic field – to identify international talents under the age of 35. From a total of 1208 submissions from 67 different countries in 2015, 21 photographers were selected to be featured in the annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue, launched in September contextually to Unseen Photo Fair…
On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, MoMA’s longstanding exhibition series New Photography is expanding to 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries, and includes works made specifically for this exhibition. Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 will be on view from November 7, 2015 to March 20, 2016, throughout the entirety of the Museum’s Edward…
Opening on November 5th, Haines Gallery is hosting The Mapmaker’s Dream, an exhibition which brings together five artist whose works propose inventive and visually compelling ways to map the world around us. The show will feature Recipe for Tuesday Sunsets (2015) by Marius Bercea – a large-scale artwork depicting an abstract and fantastic vision of the neighborhoods of Los Angeles –,…
TEMPO AL TEMPO. ART FROM ANNO DOMINI TO RONI HORN, curated by Italian artist Domingo Milella and antiques specialist Bruno Botticelli, is opening on November 5 at the newly refurbished exhibition space of Roman Road in London. The show is born out of the roots of Milella’s practice, from his interest in time and its shapes, from antiques, and also…
Please note: Exhibition extended up to December 19, 2015 The first solo show in Italy by the German artist Joachim Schmid (Balingen, 1955) is on view at P420 Gallery until November 14, 2015. Active on the German scene since 1980 as a photography critic, essayist and publisher, in 1982 Schmid founded Fotokritik, a completely self-produced magazine that…
This exhibition surveys recent work by internationally-renowned artist Do Ho Suh (Seoul, 1962). Suh creates architecturally scaled, fabric installations informed by his personal experiences, that recreate specific domestic spaces where he has lived, including his childhood home (a traditional hanok-style Korean house), a house in Rhode Island where he lived as a student, and his…
Andreas Gursky captures the burning issues of modern life and global reality with an objective and precise eye. His overall compositions are technical and pictorial masterpieces, and have long since inscribed themselves on the art world’s collective memory. Gursky’s typical forms of expression are digitally processed images and extremely large-scale formats. The works of the…
After their successful The Great Unreal, based on a road trip through the US, which the artists subsequently distorted beyond recognition in their studio, the Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs hit the road once again in 2013. In their most recent project they take us on a trip by car to the East. The…
Valérie Belin’s most recent series Super Models is on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery until 19 December 2015. Making its debut earlier this year in Belin’s solo exhibition, Les images intranquilles (Unquiet Images) at Centre Pompidou, the exhibition marks the first presentation of the series in the United States. Composed of six large-scale color photographs, Super Models…
Metronom gallery in Modena is hosting Fabrizio Bellomo’s exhibition Es geht einfach um Nummer, curated by Luca Panaro. The title, Es geht einfach um Nummer [They are just numbers], is the main clue the artist gives us for what may be considered a decodification work, and on the other hand as a reconstruction of an abstractional project, brought roughly…
Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York is hosting Slow Boom, an exhibition of new works by English artist Richard Galpin (previously featured on Fantom Issue 05, Autumn 2010). In Slow Boom, a phalanx of metal structures – nicknamed ‘crawlers’ – creeps across the gallery forming the artist’s most recent investigations of urban growth. Assembled from actual building…
Until December 19, Depart Foundation is hosting the first major solo exhibition in the United States of Los Angeles-based artist Marc Horowitz. Curated by Nicola Ricciardi, Interior, Day (A Door Opens), features new paintings and sculptures. With a prescient instinct for the untapped cultural potential of populist mediums, notably Internet culture, commercial advertising and the entertainment industry,…
Until November 14th, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Italian photographer Paolo Ventura’s latest body of work, La Città Infinita. Known for constructing and photographing elaborate dioramas to tell cinematic visual storiese, Ventura takes his process one step further by painting the photographs of constructed scenes and adding collage. The works,…
Fantom is happy to announce the opening of Col tempo – Nei dintorni di Carlo Scarpa, featuring 118 photographs by Guido Guidi.
For more than twenty years, Armin Linke’s photographs have documented the effects of globalization, the transformation of cities into megacities, and the interconnectedness of post-industrial society resulting from digital information and communication technology. For The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen, scientists and theorists were invited to engage with Linke’s photographic archive, now…
John Divola’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, Despite Intensions, is a selection of nine diptychs produced in the mid-1980’s that articulate recurrent ideas in his work over the last forty years — a fundamental commitment to photography and its idiosyncrasies through processes that transcend the limits of photographic techniques. Permeating his images with gesture and intent,…
Carolina Sandretto is a New York-based photographer from Italy. Her solo show Vivir con…, curated by Laura Cherubini, is being inaugurated on September 17th at Galleria Bianconi in Milan, presenting the artist’s eponymous project for the first time in the city. By portraying Cuban people in their own homes, surrounded by their memories and affections, the…
Josiah McElheny’s artwork has often investigated the history of twentieth century modernism, in the hope of expanding on the dominant historical narrative. While continuing a dialogue with the history of aesthetics – for their political, ideological, and philosophical implications – Paintings, an exhibition of new work at Andrea Rosen Gallery, represents a shift in McElheny’s…
The first gallery exhibition of Edouard Wolton, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 2010, is taking place at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire as a scenography in two parts, titled Agartha and Photométéores respectively. Starting from studies on minerals, luminous phenomena and geometrical theories, the artist combines different elements extracted from nature…
The exhibition ‘Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel’, curated by Anna Tellgren and running at Moderna Museet through December 6th, gathers a selection of a hundred photographs and a video by Francesca Woodman. Featuring most of the American photographer’s thematic groups and series – such as Polka Dots (1976), the From Angel series (1977), Swan Song (1978), Charlie the Model (1976–77) and her…
The eccentric exhibition ‘PORN TO PIZZA – Domestic Clichés’, curated by Tina Sauerlaender (head of the curatorial project peer to space) will inaugurate this Friday with a Pizza Party at DAM Gallery in Berlin. The group show takes into account our most common habits and obsessions, the four P words identifying contemporary domestic clichés: Porn, Pets, Plants…
Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine in the 60s and 70s is the first significant exhibition entirely dedicated to the history of Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning in the UK. Founded in Wien in 1925 by the Central Association of Austrian Architects, the magazine was first conceived as a local trade publication. The project progressed to…
VIASATERNA is a new gallery promoting contemporary art by means of exhibitions, projects and public events. The gallery is closely tied to Milan’s cultural context, but it is at the same time oriented towards the new international art world.
Foam salutes the arrival of spring with an unmissable series of exhibitions, opening on Thursday, March 19th in presence of the photographers: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Geert Goiris, Regine Petersen. To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light is a phrase Kodak used to define the extraordinary quality of a…
Anastasia Photo Gallery in New York is hosting Natan Dvir’s next exhibition Coming Soon, featuring a series of unreleased works from the Israeli photographer’s long-run depiction of the bizarre relationship between humans and advertising in the city of New York. Enormous billboards, while located in the background of each image, stand above flattened streets and…
The group exhibition de-FORMATIONS includes and takes inspiration from the series The Distortions by André Kertész, the most striking and unsettling work of the visionary author, which was produced during the 30s as an assignment for the illustrated magazine Le Sourire. On that occasion, Kertész portrayed two models making use of carnival mirrors, transforming their…
The exhibition traces a singular history of embroidery, spanning from its more conventional uses to its increasing application as a free means of expression within the art field. Focusing on both Norwegian and international contemporary applications, the show fosters a dialogue between traditional employments of this technique – touching on themes such as history, memory and…
Hosted at the newly-opened Galeria Pedro Alfacinha in Lisbon, André Príncipe’s Antena 2 – the artist’s first solo show in the Portuguese capital since 2006 – gathers a selection of photographs from his past three years of photographic wandering. A daily, disciplined practice, which drives the author to an intimate portrait of people, animals and…