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CHRISTIANA BY KLAUS THYMANN – THE EXHIBITION AT TORRANCE ART MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
The images which make up the project documenting the architecture of Freetown Christiana, the self-proclaimed anarchistic neighbourhood of the Danish capital Copenhagen. A detailed description of the idea and exhibition information can be found in one of the posts below.
KLAUS THYMANN AT TORRANCE ART MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
Thymann’s project is a study in multiplicity and tolerance, the idea that cities can exist within cities. Using photography as the medium to document the Danish freetown Christiania he focuses is on the anarchistic architecture to show that a city can have a second layer, even a relatively small city such as Copenhagen. The project was [...]
PAPER PLANES – THE EXHIBITION BY NICOLAS GROSPIERRE
The exhibition’s starting point was the Polish Aviation in Cracow, built in 2010 by the Berlin architect Justus Pysall. Paper Planes was inspired by this building, and is an interpretation of it, its origin, its function and its form. The work was initiated with the acknowledgment that a) the building was designed as if it was [...]
THE PICTURE WHICH GROWS – INSTALLATION BY NICOLAS GROSPIERRE
In collaboration with Archeology of Photography Foundation, as part of the cycle “Living Archives”, Nicolas created an installation project in the apartment (used also as his archive) of Tadeusz Suminski, the Polish classical photographer who died in 2009. The installation was composed of around 800 images of the room and archive taken by Nicolas and [...]
JAN KRIWOL FOR ABSOLUT ILLUSION EDITION – PARIS, COLETTE, MAY 2ND TO JUNE 4TH
On the occasion of the world premiere release of the Illusion bottle, Absolut invites Polish artist Jan Kriwol. His work reinterprets reality by creating photographic works combining real images and imaginary deformations of paper. He recreates a universe close to Surrealism, where the eye has trouble distinguishing truth from falsehood, real from reconstituted, illusion from [...]
