The 10th Krakow Photomonth Festival has started. The anniversary exhibitions in the main programme of Photomonth are a combination of classic figures in photography and younger artists who have yet to find their ways. A major solo exhibition of Alexander Rodchenko at the National Museum, Sally Mann, whose work is at once contemporary and classic, and long awaited in Poland. Festival is also exploring the work of Sergey Bratkov, provocateur from Kharkiv, and Jerzy Lewczyński, who is now in his late eighties but still young in spirit. Festival reflects on Viviane Sassen’s pictures of Africa, which are enchantingly beautiful, yet with a sense of unease, and hear about the stories behind Lieko Shiga’s ghostly photographs of London, rural Japan and Australia. Beyond this, Krakow Photomonth Festival looks at René Magritte, the marvellous photography collection of Cezary Pieczyński, and a project specially produced for the festival by Jason Evans, an artist who is already well known to visitors.
EXHIBITIONS :
• Sergey Bratkov
While Men Are at War
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4 –
• Jason Evans
Pictures for looking at and sculpture for photography.
Association of Polish Art Photographers’ Gallery, ul. św. Tomasza 24
• Jerzy Lewczyński
Jerzy Lewczyński. Memory of the Image
National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1
• René Magritte
The fidelity of images. René Magritte and photography
International Cultural Centre, Rynek Główny 25
• Sally Mann
The Family and the Land
The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, ul. Krakowska 46
• Alexander Rodchenko
Alexander Rodchenko. Revolution in Photography
National Museum in Krakow, Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1
• Viviane Sassen
Parasomnia
Pauza Gallery, ul. Floriańska 18/5 (2nd floor)
• Lieko Shiga
Canary
Manggha Center of Japanese Art. and Technology, ul. Konopnickiej 26
• Live Flesh. Photography from the collection of Cezary Pieczyński
Starmach Gallery, ul. Węgierska 5
Krakow Photomonth Festival
17-05-12 – 17-06-12
Foundation for Visual Arts
ul. Ślusarska 9
30-710 Kraków, Poland
+48/504 170 641, +48/517 056 718
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