Retrospektive provides a comprehensive view of all the creative periods of the artist Roger Ballen from 1962 to 2012. The artist understands photography as a part of himself, an extension of his own person. His main interest and fascination is about abysmal and grotesque

The exhibition will take place at Fotomuseum WestLicht in Vienna until April 28th.

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The Art Centre Pompidou in Paris has commissioned an Beat Streuli exhibition for the Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis.
In the eighteenth century chapel of Saint Denis the artist Beat Streuli will project his pictures in large scale. For the first time we are able to see his photographs in three huge screens projected with a new digitized version.
 
The opening will take place on February 21 at 7:30 pm, and the exhibition will last until April 15.

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Isabel Rocamora participates in the exhibition "An idea of beauty " at the Strozzina Center for Contemporary Culture in Florence. This will provide a reflection of beauty in our society, and where visitors can have physical and emotional involvement.
The exhibition will take place at the Centre for Contemporany Cultura Strozzina on Thursday March 28 at 19h, until July 28.

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Miralda installation entitled "Santa Comida" is presented as part of the exhibition at MACBA "Episodis Crítics (1957-2011). Col • lecció MACBA". We remind you that you can visit the show until February 17, 2013

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Next January 30th Aitor Ortiz presents "Verweillen", a retrospective exhibition of his series Net, Modular, Destructuras, Millau, Espacio latente, muro de Luz and Amorfosis.

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EACC (Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló) presents New Street, an exhibition project by the Swiss artist Beat Streuli coproduced with IKON Gallery, Birmingham.

New Street features recent work created by the artist after spending some time in Castellón photographing life on its streets, portraying anonymous passersby. While his work documents human presence in public spaces, Streuli maintains a distance with the people portrayed without infringing on their personal space or intimacy. Instead, his action limits itself to looking through the camera lens like a person looking directly through his own eyes. The public is unaware of the artist’s presence as he portrays their faces and movements in the midst of diverse abstract details present in the city itself, in passing holding up a reflection of our lives and our society. He neither prepares nor modifies the spaces where he works, although he deliberately chooses urban public spaces; preferably busy streets or squares where the movement of people generates multiple possibilities. His camera captures the cultural diversity of a globalised society where the people portrayed are shown in their varied attire, women with hiyabs, teenagers in t-shirts and jeans, talking on mobiles, waiting at traffic lights, taking photos …

His work has been described by critics as “an extraordinary conflation of public and private life; mass culture and beleaguered individuality; surging activity and solitude, alienation, or vulnerability.” Streuli’s work is a reflection of an increasingly standardised and globalised urban world, influenced and shaped by cinema, television, advertising, fashion and lifestyles, in which the roles of “spectator and portrayed” are fully interchangeable.

Streuli’s work is an antidote to didacticism. It could not be less ideologically driven, but then equally it is not an artistic platform of meaninglessness. On the contrary, Streuli is alert to the nuances of human gestures acted out and traced within our built environments —shaped by us, shaping us— and he conveys them with a refreshing sympathy. His knowingness is understated, not overburdened with symbolic or loaded motifs, but comprises reflections of real life with all the complexity that can then be brought to bear on them.

The EACC exhibition hall is papered with large format photos which are rounded off by the video screening of synchronised sequences of images taken by the artist on the streets of Castellón and Birmingham. Totally surrounded by portraits of individuals, the spectator is asked to rethink our identity as human beings.

An artist’s book featuring Streuli’s work in Castellón and Birmingham, the cities the artist has taken as his subjects, has been published to coincide with the exhibition. The hundreds of images contained in this book are just a fraction of those he took on the ground. Streuli’s easygoing style belies an exacting kind of photography. There is composition and editing, cropping and sequencing in this book that is very much in keeping with the careful preparation and camerawork involved. There is no digital manipulation of the imagery itself, and so the result overall is as objective as it is personal.

Angel Mateo Charris has illustrated the book "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. The exhibition opening will take place on December 13 at 19 h in Consell de Cent, 323

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Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ
at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
October 21, 2012 – February 3, 2013

This exhibition presents Robert Mapplethorpe's X, Y, and Z Portfolios (published in 1978, 1978, and 1981, respectively). Together, the 39 black-and-white photographs summarize Mapplethorpe’s ambitions as a fine-art photographer and contemporary artist, reflecting the tripartite division of his mature work: homosexual sadomasochistic imagery (in X); flower still lifes (Y); and nude portraits of African-American men (Z).

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The film showed by Senda gallery in 2010 arrives to the SFMOMA

September 27th, 2012, 7pm
Phyllis Wattis Theater
SFMOMA
151 Third St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

This discussion follows a screening of the film.

Screening schedule
Thursday, September 27th, 2012, 11:00am to 7:00pm
Friday-Sunday, September 28th-30th, 2012 11:00-5:00pm
 
Free and open to the public.

 
In other news…
November 9th, 2012
Aurora Picture Show
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir 6-7:30pm
Artist Talk with Eve Sussman at 7:30pm
Additional screening times November 10th and 11th, 12-4pm
Aurora Picture Show
2442 Bartlett St.
Houston, TX 77098