This exhibit draws from Jackson Fine Art’s 30 year history of showing some of the most distinguished female voices in photography, illustrative of the gallery’s evolving vision through the years.
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Tiphaine Popesco
Photographer
I have always placed my models against a domestic background chosen at random; whether cluttered with objects or sparsely furnished, my aim is to create an atmosphere, to imply a narrative. I wish neither to reflect their living conditions, nor to convey their social status or culture, but to leave the interpretation up to the viewer.
Each person will construct a story according the symbolic weight which they give to objects in the picture; my idea being to create quite a strong impact on the spectator’s emotions…
The human figure can be that of an adult or child; there are sometimes two figures, but there is never any interaction. All the models represent isolated, abandoned characters whose faces, often half-hidden, convey solitude, apathy or boredom.
Nudity reveals the body’s sculptural dimensions. The use of perspective and of black and white throw the body into relief, an effect enhanced by my choice of classical poses. Apart from isolation, another recurrent theme in my photographs is the character’s loss of orientation. The models, out of their “natural environment” and in sometimes complicated poses, become marionettes, as if under the influence of an external force. This puppet-like aspect gives the impression of an inability to be spontaneous. Even the children do not represent the “joie de vivre” which one traditionally associates with them; although they are clothed and their faces can be seen, my representation is similar to that of the adults.
Without sentimentality, I compose pictures to engage the emotions of the viewer.
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana Velicescu
Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
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Collecting PracticesOct 12, 2019 – Nov 8, 2020
In 2019, the Botín Centre celebrates the 25th anniversary of Itineraries, the annual exhibition that displays the work of the artists awarded the Botín Foundation’s Visual Arts Grant each year, which has been running since 1993.
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Elimination of ViolenceArt, Women & Awareness
The United Nations General Assembly has designated today International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today we would like to once again celebrate the women who have inspired and created in the art world.
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Rashid Johnson / Anxious AudienceJanuary 25 – May 10, 2020
American artist Rashid Johnson stages a major new site-specific commission at The Power Plant. Ricocheting between the opposing walls of this narrow passage, these works are a continuation of Johnson’s series known as Anxious Audiences.
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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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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.
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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…)
