We are at the year’s end, 2019. There is not a singularity of form which could define the past twelve months, or any epoch. This year, we have had our part of crisis and tension, distorted visions, along with struggles in identity, politics, and culture.
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Paula Gortazar
photographer
Paula Gortázar is a Spanish photographer based in London. From 2002 to 2009 she received individual photography training with Rafael Sanz Lobato (Spanish National Photography Award 2011). In 2010 she obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Photography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and has recently completed a Master of Arts at the University of Westminster in London. She also holds a Law Degree that has influenced her photographic practice by allowing her to better understand current social and political issues.
Paula leaded the Photography Course at Universidad de Comillas in Madrid from 2008 to 2009 and has been an invited lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2011. Her work has been exhibited in Spain and the U.K. and published in different international media. Among several awards, she has recently been shortlisted for the Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award.
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Katy Moran / Recent PaintingsJan 11 – Feb 19, 2020
Recently described as an “abstract painter of figurative mood,” Katy Moran enlists a wide scope of mark-making to conjure different atmospheres in each painting, every chosen surface being readymade.
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Southern Rites / Gillian LaubVarious engagements / 2020
This small town symbolized the archetype of pastoral American life. Yet this idyllic place was also held hostage by a dark past, manifesting in the racial tensions that scar much of American history.
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In The Next Door RoomPhotography of Lise Sarfati
The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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Helene Schmitz: Thinking Like a MountainDec 14, 2019 – Mar 15, 2020
“I wanted to portray the violent transformation of nature in the European periphery. I have experienced that the concept of wilderness, and virgin land untouched by humans, has disintegrated.” –Helene Schmitz
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Reading Time in SpaceModernism at mumok
This exhibit Reading Time in Space / Modernism at mumok 1910 to 1955 traces passages of time and artistic concepts, accounting the idea of an expanded concept of art, one that relies on connection and permeation beyond a traditional chronological order.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DayMLK & the Civil Rights Movement
This feature honors Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Photography by Bruce Davidson, Yoichi Okamoto, Gordon Parks, James Karales, Marion S. Trikosko, and Bob Adelman.
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Darkest HourBrexit and the British youth
Darkest Hour, this pearl of stylish and emotive documentary was directed by Thomas Ralph, just after the initial Brexit referendum over three years ago (more…)
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Worlds in MotionSep 21, 2019 – Apr 13, 2020
Mudam Luxembourg presents Worlds in Motion, a thematic presentation of works from the Mudam Collection that embody movement as a physical and perceptual event.
