This spring Temple invites Dalpine, independent publishing house based in Madrid to collaborate in a series of exhibitions.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, photography in Spain has witnessed the growth and development of a new generation of photographers, whose main feature has been collaboration and exchange. Away from the official art circuits and with remarkable freshness and creative freedom, these photographers create their own networks in order to create an independent production, exhibition and distribution environment.
Paradoxically, coinciding with a period of great technological and socioeconomic changes, this generation does not seek to create a closed and self-sufficient ecosystem, but rather seeks to broaden horizons with exchanges that transcend borders by debating issues of the most diverse nature. This is why the book came to be their favorite medium, both for its narrative possibilities as for being an excellent tool for expressing themselves in a democratic and accessible way, one which increasingly places the work of these photographers on an international scene.
For 5 years now, Dalpine has supported the production and distribution of innovative works dealing with contemporary life and its disorders, fractures, and possibilities.
With the desire to continue developing and fostering collaboration between photographers, editors and gallery owners Temple and Dalpine associated and initiated a cycle of exhibition taking as a starting point a series of publications to displace the works from books to the gallery.
http://www.dalpine.com
* Located in Paris, in the upper Marais, Temple is a space that present a new generation of artists.
In a minimum space – a white cube of 3x3x3 meters – which prohibits thinking of hanging work in terms of linear meters, exhibitions are pretext to rethink they way work is set up in a gallery, to refine the artists’ proposals and densify the visual material in order to create installations, and even generate art work.
Temple is thought of as an accompanying platform for a new generation of French and international photographic creators – such as the first exhibitions of Benjamin Mouly, Bruno Zhu or Samuel Gratacap – but also hosts specific projects of experienced photographers – like Antoine d’Agata, Fractal series – or artists who developed a substantial work on the margins of institutional circuits – as Erik Van der Weijde, Oliver Sieber & Katja Stuke and Ricardo Cases.
With a willingness to experiment with the exhibition medium and to involve the public in both the installation as in the formal and conceptual presentation of works. Temple is also working with curators, publishers, writers and critics.
In 2013 a group of people with a background in art, photography and the art book created the gallery. Temple is directed today by Anna Planas and Pierre Hourquet. They develop curatorial projects and publications in collaboration with artists and institutions.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
The Castle
Federico Clavarino
From April 2nd to May 7, 2016
Temple
20 rue de la Corderie
75003 Paris
France
http://www.templeparis.com
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Thursday to Saturday 3pm – 7pm and by appointment.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
• Grass
Michele Tagliaferri
From May 14th to June 18th, 2016
• Ama Lur
Jon Cazenave
From Octobre 22nd to November 26th, 2016
With the support of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Paris
