Thursday, April 24, 2014

Incredible Photos From L.A.'s Art Fair | The Atlantic Cities — review

Incredible Photos From L.A.'s Art Fair
By Mark Byrnes

The second annual Paris Photo Los Angeles will exhibit an incredible collection of photography from around the world.

The fair, which takes place inside Paramount Pictures Studios from April 25 to 27, will take advantage of its surroundings, using a police station studio for the LAPD archival images we shared earlier this week.

A wide range of styles and periods will be represented, including anonymous works from a mid-century American photographer, the more recent and awe-inspiring aerial photography of Edward Burtynsky and nearly every kind of image in-between:

Anthony Hernandez LA, 1971, 1971 Pigment print on Illford Mono Silk paper the artist

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Photography collectors and photography lovers — get ready for lots of inspiration and possible visual overload.

Paris Photo Los Angeles, the second US edition of the world’s most celebrated art fair for the best of the best in the global photographic marketplace opens this month — and there is lots to see.

LensCulture is proud to have a long relationship with Paris Photo, and we're thrilled to offer a full-screen slideshow preview here of 68 photos. (Consider this preview as just an appetizer for the show itself which will feature thousands of today's most marketable photographs.)

This year's edition will feature several unique exhibitions and installations. Taking advantage of Paramount Pictures Studios' vintage sound stages, selected galleries will each have an exclusive movie set in which to present their works. For example, the New York Street Backlot, created as a replica of New York City's streets, will be dedicated to the presentation of cutting-edge solo shows, Young Gallery exhibitions, and bookseller projects.

A critical part of Paris Photo Los Angeles is the "Sound and Vision" public programming series, composed of "The Conversations" and "The Screenings". The Conversations, organized by independent curator Douglas Fogle, will bring together notable curators and contemporary artists for a discussion of the practice of image-making. Taking place in Sherry Lansing Theatre, participants will include artists and curators: Walead Beshty, Simon Castets, Doryun Chong, Leigh Ledare, Stephen Shore, Taryn Simon, Jeff Wall and others who will be announced shortly.

The Screenings will be curated by independent curator Kevin Moore in partnership with FotoFocus, Cincinnati. The program pushes the boundary between photography and the moving image by offering visitors exposure to all sorts of exceptional film and video work. The program will have a special emphasis on film and video’s historic ties to art photography. Works will be screened continuously in a series of shipping containers placed on the Paramount Pictures Studios lot. The selection, offering a breadth of international perspectives, will include both contemporary artists and historical precedents: Slater Bradley, Bruce Conner, Moyra Davey, Rainer Ganahl, Rosalind Nashashibi, Nicolas Provost, Julian Rosefeldt and many others.

— LensCulture

Paris Photo Los Angeles
April 25-27, 2014 from 12:00 to 7:00 pm (6:00 pm on Sunday)

Paramount Pictures Studios
For more information about the events and programming offered at this year's event, as well as access to even more images, be sure to explore the Paris Photo LA website.Follow LensCulture on Facebook and Twitter daily.

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LOS ANGELES ART GALLERIES

This Los Angeles gallery guide features Los Angeles galleries and art galleries located in Los Angeles County, California. You'll also find links to other important art districts around Los Angeles, including Culver City, Beverley Hills, Bergamot Station and Santa Monica. The art galleries that are listed feature a variety of artworks: contemporary art and traditional fine art, paintings, prints, sculpture, fine art photography and other types of visual art. If you're interested in collecting art or just looking at art while visiting Los Angeles, this is your guide to the Los Angeles art galleries that you should visit.

On the second Thursday of every month in downtown Los Angeles, many of the art galleries participate in the Downtown Art Walk and are open until 9:00 pm. Be sure to look at our other Southern California Gallery Guides, including Culver City | Santa Monica and Bergamot Station | Laguna Beach and the rest of Southern California.

West Los Angeles Art Galleries

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Maloney Fine Art
Mihai Nicodim
Nye + Brown
Samuel Freeman
Von Lintel Gallery
Walter Maciel Gallery
Western Project

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Wendy Small, Swan (from the series Micro Managed)

Paris Photo Los Angeles
April 25 - 27, 2014

Paris Photo Los Angeles, is an important art fair that specializes in artworks created in the photographic medium. It takes place at Paramount Pictures Studios April 25th -27th. This should be a enjoyable fair because of the location. It's an ideal setting to explore how artists have been and are using photography and moving image in their work in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Eighty-one, leading international galleries will present historical and contemporary works by renowned and emerging artists in the legendary Paramount Pictures’ soundstages. The New York Street backlot, a replica of New York City’s streets, will be dedicated to the presentation solo shows, special exhibitions, and bookseller projects, each exhibiting within an exclusive movie set. Also, BMW, will be showing off it's David Hockney art car.

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The public program is also an important component of the fair. Built around cultural events involving artists, art world professionals, collectors, and cultural institutions, this year’s program will include special exhibitions and the Sound & Vision series of conversations and screenings. For full list of programs visit: http://www.parisphoto.com/losangeles/program

Location:
Paramount Pictures Studios
5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Hours:
Friday, April 25th, Noon - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 26th, Noon - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 27th, Noon - 6:00 PM

Paris Photo Los Angeles
http://www.parisphoto.com/ for additional information

Thursday, April 17, 2014

VON LINTEL GALLERY @ AIPAD | La Voce di New York

Photography has arrived in New York along with Spring

By Lynne Lawner

Many events for photo fans and collectors are going on in the city these days. The main one is the annual AIPAD fair at the Park Avenue Armory, which runs from April 10th through the 13th. In its 34th edition, the show presents 84 galleries, including many from abroad.

For fans and collectors of photography, April, 2014, is definitely the month. A lot is going on in many locales in New York and across the country, and Paris-Photo-L.A. is about to open—all of this following the early-bird photography auctions at Christies, Sothebys, Phillips, and other houses. ICP offers a generous selection of experimentation in contemporary work in its group show What is Photography, while the Morgan Library has put on display, for the first time, its own collection.
Certainly, the main event on a national scale and certainly in Manhattan is the annual AIPAD fair at the Park Avenue Armory, which runs this year from April 10th through the 13th. In its 34th edition, the show presents 84 galleries, including many from abroad and some that have never before participated.

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Other attempts to appropriate commercial images (especially of women) or to respond to them abound, not all convincing. It took some explanations for me to “get” a heavily saturated, rather large image of flowering condoms with butterflies artificially placed in the background by Wendy Small at von Lintel Gallery (L.A.). Title Morning Glory. It’s certainly something that derails you. In a related vein, Matthew Brandt, known for his salt-prints employing semen and other unorthodox materials, is at Yossi Milo, a gallery currently displaying his photographs incorporating dust from demolished major structures. In a digital world, Brandt turns his attention to fading photographic materials and processes.

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VON LINTEL GALLERY @ AIPAD | Collector Daily

By Farrah Karapetian

Every Booth at the 2014 AIPAD Photography Show, Part 4 of 4

By Loring Knoblauch / In Art Fairs / April 14, 2014

This is the 4th and final part of our 2014 AIPAD Photography Show summary. For more general background information on the fair and further information on the structure of these slideshows, please return to Part 1 (here).

This report covers the booths on the far right aisle of the show floor, as seen from the entrance.

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ANTONIO MURADO | The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt @ Rockefeller Center

By Antonio Murado

The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt FAQs

Q: What is The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt?

A: The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt is the world’s biggest egg hunt, with over 260 egg sculptures individually created by leading artists and designers. The sculptures will be placed across the five boroughs of New York City. The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt will officially start on Tuesday, April 1, at 7:00 a.m. and will run until Thursday, April 17, at 11:59 p.m. Following the hunt, all the eggs will be placed in Rockefeller Center until Friday, April 25.

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Monday, April 14, 2014

VON LINTEL GALLERY @ PARIS PHOTO, LA | April 25—27, 2014

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Anthony Hernandez, LA, 1971

Farrah Karapetian, Full Stop (Street Series)

Melanie Willhide, Untitled (Poppy)

Wendy Small, Swan (from the series Micro Managed)

Roland Fischer, Black Forest #2

Izima Kaoru, Kuroki Meisa wears GUCCI (461)

Klea McKenna, Magma Study (cinders 1)

Floris Neususs, StüPuck (2)

Top AIPAD Recommendations: Farrah Karapetian at Von Lintel Gallery | GalleryIntell

WATER'S OTHER STATE
By Kristina Nazarevskaia

At this point you should be well-familiar with photograms. From our very first interview with Adam Fuss where he explained his process of placing biological objects (live snakes, rabbit intestines, etc.) directly onto large-scale photo-sensitive paper to create colorful chemical reactions, to Alisson Rossiter and her Richard Serra-inspired monochromes, to Man Ray and some of the first ever experimentations with camera-less photography. This year’s AIPAD Photography Show in New York is full of works by contemporary artists who are further exploring the surfaces and the techniques of this timeless process.

Von Lintel Gallery, now based in Los Angeles, is showing several amazing photograms by a California-based artist Farrah Karapetian who used ice to create her abstractions. The images, titled Slips were really experiments, initially created for an installation titled Rock, Paper, Scissors at the California-Pacific Triennial and shown at the Orange County Museum of Art.

In an interview with galleryIntell Farrah explained that she has been using transparent materials like resin and glass in her photograms since 2007. Primarily because they allowed her to achieve a different level of detail, volume and surface than solid objects. She turned to ice because of the desire to emulate various rock surfaces and found the medium to be generous in its abundance of air bubbles and surface irregularities. The process involved recording the shape of the object using her color enlarger, cutting it out and adhering the rock-shaped image onto the wall to create a semblance of the ruins.

As the ice cubes began to melt, this shift from a solid state into a liquid one, this “swishing revolt” as she called it, was the “happy material accident” the artist was ready to accept. The images that eventually made it into the present series were the ones that she “could learn from and ones that could hold their page compositionally.” Naturally drawn to warm colors I asked about the origin of the glowing ochres in several of the images. How did she achieve this color? It turned out that the inspiration came from the Anasazi ruins located in southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado. She called the color “Anasazi Gold.”

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Von Lintel Gallery + @ AIPAD | New York Times Review

Origins Story, Through a Modern Lens

Experimental Strategies at Aipad’s Photography Show

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

APRIL 10, 2014

The photography world has been ruled in recent years by a fascination with abstraction and experimental processes and techniques. You see this everywhere in the current Association of International Photography Art Dealers show at the Park Avenue Armory. Even Hans P. Kraus Jr., who deals in photographic old masters, is showing — alongside vintage prints by Charles Marville, now featured in a show at the Metropolitan Museum, and Eugène Atget — some 19th-century pencil drawings by John Herschel, an important contributor to early photography. The drawings here, of Stonehenge and sights on the European Grand Tour, were made with a camera lucida, an optical device that functions in a manner similar to that of the camera obscura but in full daylight rather than a dark room.

Photography by 1930s Surrealists like Raoul Ubac is on view at Contemporary Works, while Gitterman is showing photographs from the 1940s by Josef Breitenbach, who taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and combined the Photogram technique with chemical manipulation and other darkroom methods.

Photograms, cameraless images made by exposing light-sensitive paper, are everywhere here. Von Lintel has contemporary ones by Farrah Karapetian and Wendy Small, as well as Floris Neusüss, who has devoted his career to making them. Joel Soroka has modern black-and-white photograms by the Hungarian-born artist György Kepes and Ei-Kyu of Japan, as well as a large vintage oil print, believed to be unique, of a still life with scissors, thimble and needle, by Pierre Dubreuil. Yancey Richardson is showing a large color photogram with a lattice pattern, reminiscent of Henry Fox Talbot’s early calotypes, by Bryan Graf. Gitterman has a chemigram, a process invented in the 1950s that works something like wax resistance in batik, by the German artist known simply as Chargesheimer.

Read full article @ New York Times

The AIPAD Photography Show New York runs through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street; aipad.com.

Wendy Small Morning Glory (4:20 am), 2007
Color photogram (brown)
40 x 30 inches (111.8 x 91.4 cm)
Unique

The Art Set: No Rules
by Charlie Scheips

I have to say that this winter has been my worst in memory. The months have seemed so dreary that little appealed to me to make the effort to go out. But the past two days have restored my interest in New York. Hope it lasts — as my mother used to say.

Wednesday night I went to the preview of AIPAD — the most important art fair for photography dealers in the country. In the old days it used to be held in the New York Hilton and while I have nothing bad to say about the Hilton it was a dreary affair of ugly booths and loads of bins of photographs that a motley crew of photograph enthusiasts picked through as if in a flea market.

Since 2006, AIPAD’s fair has been held at the Park Avenue Armory and is so much the better for it. I have to say, despite my long history with the photography world, I have a love/hate relationship with it. Firstly, I am a lover of painting and the art of drawing that the photography has obscured in its dominance of how we “think” we see the world. For many, photography is the “most vivid depiction of reality” — even though almost everyone knows that a photo can be doctored up with ease today — just as Stalin erased Trotsky or the latest faux celebrity is digitally Botox-ed beyond recognition.

What I love about photography is how an individual eye can frame the world in a millisecond and how for the past two centuries it has become the preeminent document of historical record.

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