Thierry Maindrault’s Monthly Cogitations The years go by and are similar. The years go by but are not similar. Everyone projects themselves, according to their temperament, into the future differently. And then, there are those with terrible consensus, often the sympathizers of one or the other option, who will find the comfortable mediocrity of a little water in a little wine. Thus, the best ideas, the promising creations get bogged…
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When I received this email from Maté Bartha, I didn't understand anything. This is one of the most enigmatic book presentations we have received. The title of the book is Anima Mundi published by The Eriskay Connection. I'd like to attract your attention to my photobook titled Anima Mundi, published just recently and presented at Paris Photo. The material has been developed conceptually together with Emese Mucsi, curator of the…
Very beautiful and unusual presentation of the current exhibition at the Bigaignon gallery. The group exhibition entitled "What if it was all just a mirage?", which runs until February 1, 2025, invites us to rethink our relationship with photography. It brings together the works of ten international artists who navigate between visible and invisible, reality and fiction, past and future and are distinguished by a diversity of artistic approaches around…
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Gallery Stephan Witschi presents the exhibition Memories of Perception with works by Mona Kuhn and Marianna Rothen. Playing with reflections, mirroring effects and transparencies, capturing the moment or emphasizing staged compositions, the displayed photographs are exploring the emotional qualities of light and shadow. Presented as a chimeric storytelling, the works of both artists intertwine and their images plumb the depths of the subconscious by setting them up in a specific…
Modern Paintings Davide Conti’s modern paintings, as he himself defines his representations, offer viewers a true illustration of the contemporary, filtered through a rich lexicon of symbolism, references, and visual and technical know-how. His artistic journey began with painting, which then naturally gave rise to his photographic images. In these images, the artist makes his experience with art his own, acquiring and elaborating it according to a personal perspective, and…
I wanted for this exhibition to show my photos as I would have shown movies. I started to photograph actresses at the age of 16-17 and I found in them playmates with whom I have continued since, to create images, to take pictures, but most often wanted to put them in a place, in an atmosphere, as if this shot there, this image there, were the beginning of a film.…
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Sharon Eilon is an Israeli-based photographer specializing in documentary photography, street photography, and photojournalism. Her journey into photography began after a health crisis that led her to seek treatment in India. This transformative experience not only restored her health but also shifted her perspective on life. The phrase "appreciating life" became a genuine motivation for her to pursue her passions, with photography emerging as her greatest love. Intrigued by the…
Until March 8, Le Carré de Baudouin presents an exhibition of landscapes by Kate Barry entitled Interstices. It is accompanied by this text: Everything would have led the photographer Kate Barry to the light, to the glitter, to the easy way out. Within an advantageous family context, she “made” her reputation with prestigious models (stars of the French variety, actresses, famous models). At the beginning of the 2000s, Kate Barry…
Yancey Richardson starts the year with an exhibition by John Divola titled The Ghost in the Machine. Over the course of a career spanning five decades, California-based artist John Divola has redefined the possibilities of the photographic medium, blending its observational precision with expressive experimentation. Challenging traditional notions of photography’s role as merely a transparent document of reality, Divola’s work explores the intersections of photography with painting, performance, installation, and,…
Release by Kerber Verlag of Scenes from an island by Florence Montmare. This collection of photographs and texts was created between 2014 and 2024, during various stays at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on the Swedish island of Fårö. Divided into three acts, Montmare’s series examines the vulnerability of humankind and nature, as reflected in the climate crisis and global conflicts. Set against the dramatic island landscape, which already served Bergman…
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague presents an exhibition of Orhan Pamuk titled The Consolation of Objects. While the literary oeuvre of the Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has long been appreciated worldwide, his artistic work has so far remained largely unknown. The exhibition Consolation of Objects for the first time offers insight into Pamuk's visual, conceptual, and photographic work, which attests to his lifelong passionate…
You have until Saturday to see the exhibition Sons of the Living by Bryan Schutmaat at the Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “openroad” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession,…
The call for entries for the 2025 edition of the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Photography Award, is open until March 17, 2025. Since its launch in 2008, the Photography Award has supported contemporary photographic creation. Each year, the museum finances the work of three laureates, selected on the basis of an original project in keeping with their artistic career. It also pays for the final production of…
The most important retrospective of the famous American photographer ever shown in Spain is on view until May 1, 2025. Located on this tip of Galicia, A Coruña, a port city well known to sailors for being an important meteorological landmark, the Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation, open since 2022, does not do things by halves. After Peter Lindberg, Steven Meisel and Helmut Newton in 2023, the fourth edition presents Irving…
Roberto Muffoletto, the director of VASA, sent us this portfolio by Fran Forman entitled Midnight Sun. It is accompanied by these few words. In her body of work “Midnight Sun” American photographer Fran Forman recreates a painterly world of mystery and fantasy to release and lose herself into her own creative universe. The images traverse through an unknown world, where the characters of her story as well as the viewers…
An immersion in Ecuadorian biodiversity is being held until March 15, 2025 at the Moulin des Baronnies in Sarlabous. Organized by the Arc-en-Ciel Foundation, this exhibition presents the photographs of Edison Morocho, an Ecuadorian photographer passionate about preserving ecosystems. His photographs reveal the richness of Ecuadorian cloud forests, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. The photos, taken in the Mayu Guajalito protected reserve, tell the story of…
This is the most unusual exhibition of the month. A series of drawings born from a photograph. An exhibition by Farhad Ostovani that Annie Boulat particularly wanted to present in her gallery DUREV Events and that she describes as follows: At first glance, it is just a banal black and white photo of two women in a room, who seem strangers to each other. One is standing at the back…
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The book is called Dialogues. It is published by Action Motion. It is signed Clover Green. It is presented as follows: Clover Green’s latest project explores the dialogue between images, art, and memory. By pairing photographs taken over the last three years, Clover creates an intuitive narrative that reveals relationships between the images. Using the diptych technique, Dialogues invites viewers to reflect on the beauty of the world as it…
This January, you can read or read again two magazines in particular: Issue 39 and the Special Holiday issue of Open Eye. All the other published issues are also available on the website www.openeyelemagazine.fr in the ‘back issues’ section. You can also find an artist you like in the ‘list of published authors’ section. www.openeyelemagazine.fr
The exhibition is called Naturae. Twelve photographers: Emmanuelle Bousquet – André Carrara – Floriane de Lassée – Erwan de Rengervé – Jan Gulfoss – Iris Hutegger – Gilles Lorin – Isabel Muñoz – Gilles Pernet – Ludovic Sarmento – Nicolas Seurot – Gilles Tapie – Laetitia Villehuchet present their views on the worlds of landscape, still life and nudes. Naturae until February 23, 2025 Galerie Daltra 20 Rue du Clos…