Martin Barré and Jorge Queiroz @Galerie Nathalie Obadia at Esther Schipper. In the occasion of the Berlin-Paris Exchange. (January 15 – March 13, 2010)
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Martin Barré.
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Jorge Queiroz.
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Studio visit with Vladimir Karaleev.
Following up on the video I made of Vladimir Karaleev’s performance during Berlin Fashion Week, I decided to carry the episode further with a photo shoot at his studio. With this visit, I am bringing The Flog on a slightly different path but once you get a better sense of Karaleev’s work, you will understand why I have featured him here.
Vladimir Karaleev (*1981) was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. Moving to Berlin at the age of 19 he studied fashion design at the FHTW). In 2005 he founded his own fashion label followed by his conceptual debut collection “CUT 210”. With „Pro Forma“ F/W 2010/2011 Karaleev is presenting his 7th collection.
The design of the pieces is neither functional nor decorative. Structures disregard body shape and avoid definition.
To read more about his work, check this interview with Karaleev by Christopher Filippini for Dossier Magazine.
Note. The first image is a screen shot of vladimirkaraleev.com.
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Edition 04. Ariel Reichman.
I am still in Berlin for a few more days, cheerfully trying to survive its capricious weather and its uneven glassy sidewalks.
There will be a few changes here on The Flog and I am really excited to be launching them soon. Let’s just throw out the hint that it will be another great trans-Atlantic slash Continental collaboration.
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Back in the Spring of last year, I started shooting studio visits again and was invited to step inside Ariel’s studio here in Berlin.
I was drawn to his work due to both its intimate and its formal aesthetic. Heavy personal narratives were warmly buzzing from everywhere and yet it also felt like the cold report of a detective was being waved at me, as if the correspondent had solely lined up the facts of one’s life. It was darkly intriguing.
This photograph carries the same weight to me. Within the ongoing process of his practice, it represents the space where the political and the intimate connects, somewhere between photography, video, performance, and life.
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Ariel Reichman was born in South Africa in 1979 and immigrated to Israel in 1991. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and at the U.D.K. Berlin. Reichman was awarded the lbb Prize for Photography by the Karl Hofer Foundation in 2008. He was recently part of the first group exhibition “Freischuss” at Die Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin which was curated by Gregor Quack.
He lives and works in Berlin and Tel-Aviv.
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Damien Deroubaix and Maël Nohazic at the French Institute.
Damien Deroubaix and Maël Nohazic @The French Institute (January 27 – March 2, 2010)
From the press release:
Les travaux de Damien Deroubaix sont emplis de symboles drastiques et souvent sombres. Il puise dans un répertoire de subculture. Ses travaux sont provocants, éloignés de la réalité de façon cauchemardesque mais non sans une certaine dérision.
Chez Mael Nohazic, l’apocalypse devient idylle. Des lieux sans peur, ni sentiments, ni souffrances , ses oeuvres sont caractérisées par des transformations, des mutations, des atmosphères énigmatiques. Une poésie de l’horreur et de la beauté.
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Johan Zetterquist at invaliden1.
Johan Zetterquist: Studies For A Monument @invaliden1 (January 9th – February 6th, 2010)
From the press release:
“Studies For A Monument” questions the turn of relative values into institutional speech by presenting a personal monument. A black fence placed in the middle of the white cube gallery is construed as a ruin and surrounded by a series of drawings. A ruin is architecture in decay, and its death, so to speak, has been idealized since the Romantic period. By juxtaposing the black fence and the drawings, Zetterquist highlight this paradoxical use of contrived ruins, constructed for the express purpose of decay.
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Graham Anderson at Nice and Fit.
Graham Anderson: New Paintings and Drawings @Nice and Fit (January 16 – March 12, 2010)
From the press release:
The rain I watch fall in the courtyard comes down at quite varying tempos.
In the center it’s a fine discontinuous curtain (or net), an implacable but relatively slow downfall of fairly light drops, a lethargic, everlasting precipitation, a concentrated fragment of the atmosphere. Near the left and right walls, heavier, individual drops fall more noisily. Here they seem the size of a grain of wheat, there of a pea, elsewhere almost of a marble.
Francis Ponge (trans. C.K.Williams)
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Katharina Otto at 401contemporary.
Katharina Otto: Behind The Wall of Sleep @401contemporary (January 23 – March 6, 2010)
From the press release:
Katharina Otto’s paintings convey a dark, mystical atmosphere. Hints of traditional pictorial themes unfold, usually in small wooden formats: Models of female nudes, depicted from behind kneeling at a well or with the shadowy shape of a swan in her lap, semi-abstract landscapes or figures on which only arms or a head are visible. The sombre color palette combines ochre, violet, black and red tones, which are sometimes carefully blended and other times left to appear rough.
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Edition 03. Jessica Minckley.
Before introducing the third artist in the collection, I am delighted to announce that The Beholder is now hosting the Art Collection by The Flog. I am really excited and honored to be collaborating with Suzanne Shade who graciously made space for the pieces I have already presented and for the ones scheduled to appear every week. Thank you for your continued support.
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Like a romantic and premonitory episode, this diptych by Jessica Minckley seems to be carrying the melancholia of my current surroundings. As I am writing this from Berlin, I can almost see the same repetitive marks, the faded touches and the colored scratches that she applied to the intimacy of the format, surfacing on the walls of the city and in the color of the winter air.
Minckley works in an array of mediums, from works on paper, to painting and installation. Her practice resonates within the familiar, the self, and the crisis and sorrows that accompany such language.
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Jessica Minckley is an artist based in Los Angeles. She had her last solo exhibition with Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles in 2008 which was featured in Art Forum. Other recent group shows took place at Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, Kreiling &, Los Angeles, and at Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas.
She is also the co-director of Light&Wire Gallery whose last project consisted of a series of public installations on view at six bus stop shelters around Miami Beach during the Art Basel Fair. Finally, she recently launched a new online curatorial exercise entitled CANAL.
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Médecins Sans Frontières Edition.
Following the recent earthquake in Haiti and the consequent humanitarian crisis, photographic documentaries of the disaster have appeared everywhere, from the view points of professionals and amateurs alike.
Beside checking The New York Times’s slideshow, one of the main site gathering these news stories in photographic terms is The Big Picture, and Alan Taylor compiled shots from all agencies the day after the earthquake, then 48 hours later. Yesterday, NPR published these series of shots by photojournalist Jeff Antebi taken before the quake (via C-Monster). I saw that the Denver Post also put together a photo collection of the events.
So today, instead of a regular Friday Flickr Find, I decided to gather photographs taken by those who come along with Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization I have been supporting for a long time.
These series features shots from around the world, in countries where crisis take place every day and where every day doctors and medical organizers work their asses off to help people.
Thank you.
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Dominick Tyler, Womens’ clinic, Gondama, Sierra Leone, from the series Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Jenn Warren, from the series Facing up to Reality, Southern Sudan, 2009.
Aidok Kenyche holds her 6 month old daughter Ngachiwun, who has pneumonia, as MSF Doctor Olivier Montigny administers oxygen, in the MSF Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) Pediatric Inpatient Ward in Pibor, Jonglei State. Pibor is one of the largest villages of the Murle people, who are an entirely nomadic community of cattle herders, and MSF is the only healthcare providing organisation operating in the area.
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Alexander Glyadyelov, from the series Kyrgyzstan: Former Prisoners Struggle to Continue TB Treatment, November 2009.
MSF case managers and nurses from the outpatient clinic of a hospital in Tokmak, in the north of the country, visit a patient’s house. A nurse holds up an X-ray of the patient’s chest so his relatives can see it.
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Dominic Nahr, from the series Kenya: Somali Refugees Struggle in Overcrowded Camps, September 2009.
MSF staff rush a pregnant Somali woman to the main hospital after discovering the had bled the entire night.
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Dominic Nahr, from the series Fragile Border, Kenya.
A young Somali boy runs away from a sandstorm in Dagahaley Refugee camp. Dagahaley is one of the three camps in Dadaab, mostly for new arrivals and is situated 80km from the Somalia border.
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Greg Constantine, from the series Exile To Nowhere, Burma’s Rohingya, Bangladesh, 2008.
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Michael Goldfarb, from the series Iraq’s War Wounded: In their own words, May 2007.
Nour, a medical technician was sitting in a Baghdad internet cafe in August 2006 when the room suddenly exploded, catapulting her fifty feet through the air. Attackers had blown up the cafe with dynamite placed in a room immediately next door. Nour was the sole survivor of this attack, which killed 20 people. She sustained severe arm, chest and facial injuries.
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Jodi Bieber, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, September 2009.
An infant dozes on a stretcher in a fan-cooled tent at the MSF run cholera treatment centre at the Mardan Medical Complex, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, while older women peer into structure housing 12 of 65 beds. Between June and October 2009, MSF treated a total of 1 611 patients at the centre and about a third of the patients had to be put on intravenous rehydration immediately to save them. Young children remain most at risk of the diseases that is endemic to the region.
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