Paris (France), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
16 October 2009
15 October 2009
13 October 2009
Untitled
Pulo do Lobo (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
12 October 2009
FOCUS: ‘Massillon’ by Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French
“(…) their visual language and spirit find root in a shared responsiveness to sources in 19th-century art and culture. As a result, Charbonneau & French, who have collaborated since 2003, have compiled an impressive body of work brimming with mystery and sensuality,
self-consciously but elegantly Gothic—stills, it would seem, from an Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation directed by Ingmar Bergman, or Fellini’s take on Lewis Carroll.
(…)
Although many of the images provide an erotic frisson, the effects are less soft-core than soft-edge, applying a present-day visual interpretation of the “romantic” to the true romanticism—erratic, obsessed, tempestuous—of the 19th century”
by Peter Frank in On View
Charbonneau and French website
11 October 2009
Untitled
Pulo do Lobo (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
08 October 2009
07 October 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Paris (France), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
05 October 2009
01 October 2009
From the series: Deus Ex Machina
In the ancient Greek dramatic theater (and later on the Roman), to enhance the ‘terrible’ effect, a deity’s statue was lowered by means of a machinery – the Deus Ex Machina. Often, this was the turnaround point, when the divinity would bring the solution to a difficulty or to a probable dead end. Still, today’s people expect their god to bring them miracles as a reward of their faith. It is their despair that keeps the machina working.
Deus ex machina comes from Latin and is literally ‘god from a machine’. The camera, made from intricate mechanisms, mirrors and optical prisms, is a perfect alchemist tool were inorganic chemistry delivers the epistemological immortality imprisoned in the gelatinous emulsion. The camera as the machina.
Paris (France), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2006 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
FOCUS: “The Muddy Pastorales” by Jindřich Štreit
“When I take photographs, I am thinking about it a lot. I admit that the village excites me still. Being in France or some other country, when I am driving a car in some landscape and looking at the people in the field, I sometimes think I will go mad. This gets me going somehow. But because one is driving there for some other reason, one says to oneself. No, you must not. I am finding myself in such difficult moments quite often…Village is for me eternal subject matter. I thought over in which other villages I still could be tempted to take photographs, in Greece, Portugal… Many other themes could be named. What is important, however, is to get oneself more under the surface.”
30 September 2009
29 September 2009
FOCUS: “Cosmos Maya” by Jan Adamski
“Today, expressions of their long lost traditions, condemned by the Catholic church are regaining life in Guatemala and Mexico. Mayan conscience in all its purity, in which the elements of nature are of great importance and where the relationship and respect between humanity and planet Earth is mutual.”
28 September 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
27 September 2009
25 September 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
24 September 2009
22 September 2009
From the series: Deus Ex Machina
In the ancient Greek dramatic theater (and later on the Roman), to enhance the ‘terrible’ effect, a deity’s statue was lowered by means of a machinery – the Deus Ex Machina. Often, this was the turnaround point, when the divinity would bring the solution to a difficulty or to a probable dead end. Still, today’s people expect their god to bring them miracles as a reward of their faith. It is their despair that keeps the machina working.
Deus ex machina comes from Latin and is literally ‘god from a machine’. The camera, made from intricate mechanisms, mirrors and optical prisms, is a perfect alchemist tool were inorganic chemistry delivers the epistemological immortality imprisoned in the gelatinous emulsion. The camera as the machina.
Toledo (Spain), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
21 September 2009
20 September 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Madrid (Spain), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
18 September 2009
FOCUS: “Born Kings” by Alessandro Penso
“From the first Italian “gay pride” to the conquest of real and proper meetings, both at the local and national levels, this exuberant movement, the result of different stories and souls, has looked for a thread with a common language, speaking, above all, about the right to exist. So, in this work, the body becomes the protagonist, the soul and instrument for this assertion. As in “Born Kings” shows, stereotypes are overcome by means of the same stereotypes and, with slashing irony, a temporary identity is sought, to be discarded after a few minutes. The moments preceding the exhibitions are recurrent and it is exactly there that the complexity at the bottom of my research is to be found. The glances emerging from the masks artfully created to frame them and never to hide them are superimposed to the muscles that contract while in the shadows loneliness and affection emerge.”
17 September 2009
From the series: Deus Ex Machina
In the ancient Greek dramatic theater (and later on the Roman), to enhance the ‘terrible’ effect, a deity’s statue was lowered by means of a machinery – the Deus Ex Machina. Often, this was the turnaround point, when the divinity would bring the solution to a difficulty or to a probable dead end. Still, today’s people expect their god to bring them miracles as a reward of their faith. It is their despair that keeps the machina working.
Deus ex machina comes from Latin and is literally ‘god from a machine’. The camera, made from intricate mechanisms, mirrors and optical prisms, is a perfect alchemist tool were inorganic chemistry delivers the epistemological immortality imprisoned in the gelatinous emulsion. The camera as the machina.
Madrid (Spain), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
16 September 2009
15 September 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Aveiro (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Aveiro (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
14 September 2009
FOCUS: “Marilyn and I” by Yury Toroptsov
«“Marilyn and I” started in June 2005 at the Julien’s auction house in Los Angeles where a friend of mine bought an authentic summer dress designed by JAX from the personal wardrobe of Marilyn Monroe. The dress has a strong evocative power. It became an essential element of my artistic project.
(…)
With the dress folded in my photographer’s backpack I went to meet a lot of people at their homes and work places where I collected and recorded the stories of men and women of all ages and all social categories who share at least one thing in common – a strong personal emotional attachment to Marilyn Monroe.»
13 September 2009
From the series: Aseptic
Aseptic adj., 1. Free of pathogenic microorganisms; Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms. 2. Lacking animation or emotion.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Aveiro (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Aveiro (Portugal), Nuno Vieira Matos, 2007 (gelatine silver print) – click to enlarge
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