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30under30: Spotlight Six at Arsenal Center For The Arts, Watertown, MA
“30under30: Spotlight Six features six of the participating artists from 30under30 – an exhibition designed to display and encourage the dialogue of 30 young artists in the Boston area. These artists were chosen during the jurying process to be given the opportunity to showcase a broader range of their work. Through painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, these six truly represent the diversity of emerging artistic talent in Massachusetts.”
Congratulations to the six artists chosen, especially D4 contributor Kati Mennett (more Kati in D4.9 Modern Love). The exhibition runs January 10 - February 8, and there is an opening reception January 17, 2013, 5:30-7:30 pm.
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Katya Evdokimova: Branded, at Loft Project ETAGI, St Petersburg
Until November 7th, exhibition space and contemporary art gallery Loft Project ETAGI is hosting Katya Evdokimova’s latest photography exhibition in Russia. (See more Katya in d4.5 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions and d4.6 The New Constellations.)
“Katya Evdokimova’s photo project is a visual commentary on brand dependence and a consumerist philosophy of living… Ms Evdokimova draws attention to a destructive tendency that is becoming apparent in the process of a voluntary suppression of a personality and replacing it by a brand. It is evident that the photographer plays with two translations of the word ‘brand’: a logo and a body mark.”
Photograph © Katya Evdokimova
A new European photographic collective
Kirk Ellingham is one of the founders of Homelands, a new photographic collective (see more Kirk in d4.9, Modern Love.) Homelands describes itself as a group of “emerging story tellers, photographers, visual poets and filmmakers attempting to collaborate and promote emotive long term projects on our homelands; be that born, adoptive or connected… The purpose is to exchange ideas – and contradictions – about Europe and Europeans through exchanging places, and working on a yearly group theme.”
There are currently nine members, originating from Poland, the UK, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Germany. For more information, and to keep up with news about Homelands, visit the website www.homelands.viewbook.com
The group’s first event will be a projection night as part of the photography festival Kaunas Photo 2012 in Lithuania. It takes place this Thursday, September 6th. www.kaunasphoto.info
In Praise of Childhood, GETXOPHOTO 2012
The Galician town of Getxo, on the Spanish coast near Bilbao, is currently hosting its annual photographic event, GETXOPHOTO. This year’s theme is In Praise of Childhood. Among the photographic exhibitions and activities is a super-sized installation of works from Jan Von Holleben’s Dreams of Flying. (See more of Jan’s Dreams in d4.3 Home is Where…)
Contemporary Visions at Beers.Lambert, London
“Contemporary Visions is the first group exhibition at the newly relocated Beers.Lambert Contemporary in its new premises on City Road. The exhibition presents 10 contemporary international artists, (selected from an pool of nearly 1800 applicants worldwide) who each question the destability of the image and of presence. The collective point of departure for each of the artists is precisely how a vision of reality becomes translated through the artistic frame of reference. The selected artists work in all media and within all genres of art - from figurative to abstract and even conceptual, each being selected for an artistic practice that somehow perceives reality as one that has been fragmented, reconstructed, and destabilized.”
Among the artists whose work is on show is Gigi Cifali (see more Gigi in d4.7, You Can’t Always Get What You Want).
The exhibition runs August 16th - September 30th, at Beers.Lambert Contemporary, 1 Baldwin Street, London EC1V 9NU
Photograph © Gigi Cifali
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