Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Julius von Bismarck

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Julius von Bismarck
by Jessyca Hutchens // May 28, 2013
It’s easy to feel far removed from the city in this place. I’m looking out of a window over a large grassy field, the scene is quiet but for the low drone of a doom band rehearsing in a nearby studio. Julius von…[read on]

What is important to you?

Blog post by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Photographer Foster Huntington uses photography as a medium of communication to unite people of all different places, cultures, and backgrounds under the premise of a single question…[read on…]

BLINK // Jose Romussi, Dancing Strings

Blog post by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Friday, May 10, 2013.

The works of Jose Romussi are a form of artistic intervention that combines a particular craft with a repurposed image. With a strong background in embroidery, Romussi creates works with thread that bear a distinct duality between old and new, production and hand-made….[read on…]

BLINK // Alex Zelina’s transformed subjects

Blog post by Zuzana Oravcova – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 29, 2013.

The Slovakian artist, Alex Zelina, is often inspired by controversial social phenomena. His creative process often begins with the selection of a mass-media image he then re-interprets. His most recent work consists of five paintings, acrylic on paper…[read on…]

Alice through the key hole

Blog Post by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Sunday, Apr. 28, 2013.

British artist Martin Butler calls his new home base in Berlin a playground for artists and art. He rejoices in its two airports, three opera houses, and more liberal culture than his former residence in Italy…[read on…]

WHAT IS REAL? Thomas Ruff Photograms and ma.r.s

Article by Don Burmeister in New York; Friday, April 12, 2013.

Thomas Ruff is one of the handful of art world superstars who emerged in the 1990’s from the Düsseldorf school of photography centered around Hilda and Bernd Becher…[read on…]

Ernesto Neto: lust, life and nature

Ernesto Neto - "caring time" (2013), 30 mm corten steel, 2 ceramic pots with plants (Nephrolepis Green Lady and Vrisea arden) 130 x 98 x 163 cm

Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013.

With a playful oeuvre of phallic forms, abstract shapes and womb-like structures, Neto has earned his reputation as a hedonistic artist who encourages the spectator to take pleasure in life, lust and nature…[read on…]

Butterfly out of Eden: Texturing the immaterial

Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

“Butterflies out of Eden”, the current group exhibition at Fellini Gallery, presents eight Paris-based female artists who have left their motherland of Korea to establish themselves in the country of the first ready-mades…[read on…]

Lee Friedlander and the photography of chaos

Lee Friedlander - "Nude" (1982), gelatin silver print, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; © Lee Friedlander, Pace Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Monday, Dec. 03, 2012.

Lee Friedlander’s double show at the Pace galleries offers an opportunity to look at his work from various viewpoints. His nudes, in particular, having been much commented upon by the critical community, seem to require less an appraisal of their merits qua photography and more an examination of their underlying sensibility and its implications for the wider culture. Unlike his European counterparts, Friedlander is at home with…[read on…]

Dennis Hopper at Martin-Gropius-Bau

Article by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 06, 2012.

Well-known actor turned photographer, Dennis Hopper‘s lifelong career contains an overwhelming amount of stunning images. His works, which are brazenly political, capture the vitality of American culture in the 1960s. The Lost Album, which…[read on…]

Berlin Art Link’s Night & Day Series #3: Eva Maria Salvador & John Kleckner

Eva Maria Salvador & John Kleckner

Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2012.

Last weekend, Berlin Art Link presented its third exhibition in their ongoing Day & Night series with American artist John Kleckner and Swiss artist Eva Maria Salvador. This exhibition followed on from their first collaborative exhibition Köpfe und Helme (2011) and explored notions of mortality, entropy, regeneration and metamorphosis, whilst engaging in the creative repurposing of recycled materials…[read on…]