Gallery espai in Barcelona opens today their last exhibition of the season, a very varied and heterogeneous group show under the name of Summer collective that includes works by Carina Giserman, Laia Riera, Valeria Pesce or Felipe Rivera, among many others and with which they say goodbye till the end of summer....
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Within the framework of the exhibition Museum of parallel narratives, which shows and analizes the contemporary art scene in the Eastern European countries, MACBA in Barcelona organizes these days a film programme in which will be shown experimental Yugoslavian films from the ’60s and ’70s.
Today’s evening from 7 p.m. will be devoted to...
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Growing up around a small family-run clothing business that my mother has always owned, sewing machines have been part of the decor at home throughout my whole life. To this day I still have one of her machines, a relic of Spanish make that I love, that I still use sometimes for small projects...
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Sometimes I can’t help it; sometimes I am no objective at all depending on the artists and just by listening their name I know I’m going to love whatever they have done this time. Even with my eyes closed. But how couldn’t I? If there are some that never, ever disappoint me. See, for...
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London-based gallery Danziger Projects is exhibiting till next Thursday, June 30th, The Kate Moss Portfolio and other Stories a visual journey through the already twenty-three years of professional career of one of the most iconic British models. Eleven images selected by the gallery and Moss herself, and taken by photographers like Juergen Teller, Annie...
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During the ’50s and ’60s the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona became Joan Colom’s spontaneous object of study who, armed with his camera, wandered the streets with the aim of portraying moments of life; fragments of a reality that, in order of keep intact and faithful to its nature, he sometimes captured withouth even looking...
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In the works by Laura López Balza the colours are disturbingly and confusingly mixed, like in a perturbing dream, a hen can be blue and a little fawn coral: “…Once the composition is done, I add the colours, working very freely, in a ludic and instinctive way, letting myself go by what the shades...
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The immediacy of Polaroid pictures became, by the ’70s, the perfect allied to Helmut Newton’s impatience, as he once confessed in an interview. Being capable of seeing the image in real time satisfied his necessity of knowing how framing, composition and light were working together, hence that he always used this method as experimental...
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Visual Diaries / Girls is a group exhibition, curated by Argentinian photographer Florencia Serrot whose work can also be found in the show.
Together with her, another ten artists from different countries -from England to China, from Finland to Mexico- all of them women, give shape to these visual diaries exhibited till next Saturday...
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“My pictures involve a kind of wasted beauty – that’s always been a thread in my work.”
R. Phillips
The Massachusetts-born New York-based artist Richard Phillips has decided to breathe some life into his hyper-realistic portraits and for his first incursion in the video scene he has just shot a portrait in movement, as a short...
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By 2007, between chats and glasses of wine, Stefan Brüggemann portrayed one evening her friend Isabella Blow in her house, while she showed him the already mythical acquisitions she made at the Alexander McQueen graduation show.
The images of that spontaneous session are compiled now in the book Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggemann published...
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I wonder if finding Portrait of a California boy. Venice Beach, the latest by Hedi Slimane, today in my inbox represents any kind of interstellar sign responding to my necessity of a beach summer. I wonder…
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Me pregunto si encontrarme hoy en la bandeja de entrada Portrait of a California boy. Venice Beach, lo último...
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At a first glance, the work of the designer Alexis Reyna never goes unnoticed, among many other things, because that is not his intention either. Cheeky and rebel, his philosophy is shown in deconstructed garments and intricate multicolour prints. From Barcelona he tells us about his beginnings in fashion, his referents and Misses Cahun...
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Today is a very special day, today we are celebrating IT Hunter’s 3rd birthday which is something that actually does not happen everyday!
I wanted you to know that it is always a real pleasure to share them with you so, whether if we are near or far, let’s make a toast for those...
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After taking part last year in the Lithuanian competition Kaunas Photo Star and ending up being awarded with the Special Mention, Latvian photographer Roman Drits, currently based in Hamburg, is exhibiting now -and till next Tuesday, May 24th- in F Galerija (Aušros g. 6, Kaunas, Lituania), his awarded project Auftakt.
Auftakt means Prelude in...
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“My trick consists in avoiding all tricks (…) The modern picture is, in almost every case, the result of cutting.”
M. Munkácsi
From being a reporter specialized in action sports in his native Hungary to becoming the official photographer of Harper’s Bazaar in New York, -including some time as a contributor for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung...
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A couple of days ago, Nan de Bil wrote in his blog about Amadeo Orellana’s work, an artist from Mallorca that, among many other things, does some pretty interesting collages starting from fashion images.
The final result totally breaks the archaic prejudices one could have regarding the collage and completely dismantles the idea according...
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin organizes from tomorrow and till next Saturday Four Days of Jodorowsky, an event devoted to the work of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, his personal and own imaginary and his influence in the contemporary art scene, counting also on his presence for a talk before the screening of the...
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Sensual and fetishistic, magnetic. Like a sweet-aftertaste provocation, the work by Ellen Von Unwerth has always managed to move perfectly well in the most feminine and sophisticated eroticism.
Tomorrow, in Contributed gallery in Berlin, is the opening of The Big Show compiling some of the works this German photographer has done together with...
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Sunny Suits is a Californian photographer -living at the moment in Paris-, that discovered her passion for photography in 2001, when one of her friends gave her his old camera for her then first trip to Europe.
Since then, and adding up professional experiences next to people like Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson or Mary Ellen...
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