An international photography exhibition of monumental scale, featuring over 200 original photographs by over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe.
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Peggy Viallat
artist / painter
I am a french painter, born in 1973 in St. Etienne, a small grey mining town, with a strong worker community.
Enrollment in the Beaux Arts, graduated in painting restauration.
Meeting in 1996 with Nathanael, my husband, life on the road, free and fusional.
To live primarily as a commitment, and clearly influenced by photojournalism, to give, to see – to make happen – my work is changing by facets following our lives and our movements.
Several encounters have had particular significance, especially in Paris with a collaboration with Michel Houellebecq, (two artist books) which led me to explore links in art and literature through an transitory editorial project, A/OVER: 2015/2017.
Perhaps I paint because of Paolo Ucello.
In Florence there is this immense picture, La Bataille de San Romano and when I was a child I had the impression of being part of it, like I was connected with everything, the man, the flesh of the world. I would be able to stay hours there.
Or perhaps I paint by revolt, or because of Brecht.
In September 2000 the television showed the images of a child taken of target by the Israeli army who died in the arms of his father after 30 minutes of shootings. I’m unable to answer it, I haven’t more speech. I want to say something more which is adapted. I began to paint again this year, with rage, to interest myself, to question, to pay attention. I see only that suffering has a common base with humanity. My pallet is saturated with red shadow and ivory and green for corpses. I do not differentiate man from animal. This time, I am at war.
I will need many years to understand another range of feelings, the blood is always present in what I do, but more as instinct of lives, primitive.
My childhood taught me the hidden things, the innocence. What links us, is that my question now? If I could simply touch people, if my painting could become an accompanying song, a breath, a presence …
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The Post-War DreamJourney into the Anthropocene
In the late summer of 2016, I spent six weeks in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region where I documented the transformation of some of the most influential cities in the region: Ordos, Hohhot, and Baotou. While looking back on the images I had taken, I was unexpectedly reminded of post-war Italian cinema (more…)
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van Agtmael
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
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The Space Between Us / Boris MikhailovNov 16, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020
Thirty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents works by Boris Mikhailov, whose artistic stance displays a strong influence by the political and social changes of that time (more…)
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Nam June PaikOct 17, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020
Nam June Paik’s experimental, innovative, yet playful work has had a profound influence on today’s art and culture. He pioneered the use of TV and video in art and coined the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’ to predict the future of communication in the internet age.
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ARTPIL / Assistant & InternPosition available
Artpil is seeking to hire a part-time, freelance assistant & intern in Lille, France. Research, create and cultivate relations with galleries and museums, general communications, social networking, general assistance.
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Adorned / The Fashionable ShowDec 12, 2019 – Mar 11, 2020
The exhibition Adorned – The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. (more…)
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020Jan 22 – Feb 2, 2020
One of the largest film festivals in the world, the IFFR presents over 500 feature, mid-length, and short films from over 50 countries, as well as exhibitions, performances, masterclasses and talks.
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Submit to ARTPILYear Round / International
ARTPIL is accepting submissions of Profiles, Articles, and Announcements. With a focus on modern + contemporary arts, ARTPIL provides stories, event news, interviews featuring profiles of artists of all disciplines, museums & galleries, agencies & organizations, both curated and from the public domain. (more…)
