Allan Sekula’s photographic and filmic mappings of modern life at Stills in Edinburgh

EDINBURGH.- Stills’ Social Documents programme continues with Allan Sekula’s photographic and filmic mappings of modern life. Whether documenting labour conditions, the material flow of goods or protest movements, economic themes have dominated Sekula’s work since the early 1970s. Informed by both conceptual art and the history of social documentary photography his ‘critical realist’ approach brings together text and images to examine the complex social realities produced by the globalisation of economic structures. In 1995 Tramway presented Sekula’s epic photographic installation Fish Story [...]

Solo shows by Allan Sekula and Dan Perjovschi at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris

PARIS.- Galerie Michel Rein presents the exhibition Polonia and… by Allan Sekula. This is the fifth solo exhibition by Allan Sekula at the gallery over a 15 years collaboration (previous exhibitions in 2008, 2004, 2001 & 1998). The exhibition shows works from the series Polonia and other Fables which, over the past two years, has been exhibited at the Renaissance Society (Chicago), Zacheta Gallery (Warsaw), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Media City Seoul and Belfast Exposed. Since the early 1970s Allan Sekula’s work has [...]

SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne Presents 160 Works of Art Made by Joachim Brohm

COLOGNE.- The exhibition Joachim Brohm. COLOR features a total of around 160 exhibits from different sequences of photographs created in Germany, France, the United States, Portugal and Japan between 1980 and 2010. Among the works on show are a significant number of photographs that were realized alongside the artist’s major groups of works but are now being displayed and published for the first time. Included in the presentation are the only surviving early prints of Joachim Brohm’s photographs of allotments [...]

Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens “Mean Streets” Exhibition

VALENCIA.- The exhibition project MALAS CALLES presents a global and interdisciplinary view of how public space and city streets and squares have been represented during the last century. Streets are some of the most important elements in the urban fabric; the changes they undertake, the events that take place in them and the structure they have are all basic points to understand essential aspects of city life. If one knows about the modifications and changes that have taken place in [...]