Shirana Shahbazi at Fotomuseum Winterthur
Shirana Shahbazi – Much like Zero
Fotomuseum Winterthur
03.09.-13.11.2011
How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception.
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On Horizons at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)
On Horizons – Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur
September 3 – November 13, 2011
The photographic gaze into the horizon is the mirror for internal and external states and produces artistic interpretations and commentaries. As in other artistic genres, landscape in photography is interpreted through political and private gazes and the results go far beyond purely aesthetic experiences. Assembled from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this exhibition shows how photographers since the mid-1960s have approached their imagery from a range of analytical and emotional standpoints.
Shirana Shahbazi at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)
Shirana Shahbazi – Much like Zero
Fotomuseum Winterthur
September 3 – November 13, 2011
Alexander Rodchenko at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)
Alexander Rodchenko – Revolution in Photography
Fotomuseum Winterthur
28.05.-14.08.2011
Modernism made photography what it is. It gave it self-confidence and made it trust itself. Self-confidence because photography in the 1920s recognized and developed its own possibilities and qualities: a probing vision of the world, an investigation of the visible reality from various perspectives, direct, clear, from above, below, behind, from the front, but without references to the pool of art history. Russian Constructivism is an important part of this great shift.
Ai Weiwei at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)
Ai Weiwei – Interlacing
Fotomuseum Winterthur
28.05.-21.08.2011
Ai Weiwei is no “narrow” artist. He is not an artist who dedicates himself to a certain issue, develops a vocabulary, and then, step by step, delves into and molds the chosen topic. Ai Weiwei is a generalist, committed to friction with reality and forming realities. And so as a sculptor, conceptual artist, photographer, architect, interview artist, and social and cultural critic, he is a seismograph of current topics and social problems, who, as a great “multiplier” and communicator, channels life into art and art into life.
Hans Steiner at Fotostiftung Schweiz (Winterthur, Swiss)
Things will get better – Photographs by Hans Steiner
Fotostiftung Schweiz
28 May – 9 October 2011
The photographer Hans Steiner (1907-1962) from Berne left behind a very extensive and multifaceted oeuvre which is only now being rediscovered.
Nippon at Lugano (Swiss)
Nippon
23 october 2010 – 27 february 2011
Lugano, Swiss
The new cultural centre named LAC takes off for its voyage. The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new building took place with a great show on May 8th; now the first season of exhibitions is about to be opened under the new LAC brand.
Mark Morrisroe at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Swiss)
Mark Morrisroe
Fotomuseum Winterthur
27.11.2010-13.02.2011
Mark Mark Morrisroe, a great well-known/unknown figure from the Boston art world of the early eighties, surrounded himself with a lively, eccentric bohemian art scene that had originated in the punk movement. Already during his school years, Mark Morrisroe published the legendary Dirt magazine together with Lynelle White. In Summer 1981 he performed in the clubs of Provincetown as the “Clam Twins”, with Steven Tashian, alias Tabboo!, and made the Super-8 film The Laziest Girl in Town that same year. Early on he met Jonathan (Jack) Pierson, whom he photographed again and again. In Pat Hearn, he found an artist friend and close confidante, who stood by his side until his early death from AIDS.
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Swiss)
Larry Sultan / Mike Mandel – Evidence
Fotomuseum Winterthur
11.09.-14.11.2010
In 1977 Larry Sultan (1946-2009) and Mike Mandel (*1950) combed through thousands of photographs in the archives of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Departments of the Interior, the Stanford Research Institute and a few dozen other companies, administrations and educational institutions. They were looking for photographs taken specifically for maximum objectivity. They ended up selecting a series of photographs which they printed with great care in a limited edition, as if they were art prints, with the simple title Evidence on the cover.
Stefan Burger at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Swiss)
Stefan Burger – Under the Circumstances
Fotomuseum Winterthur
11.09.-14.11.2010
We have a penchant for cladding, disguising, draping, varnishing and covering up – the crooked wall, the aging face, the leaking oil rig, the dented bodywork. We have a penchant for fixing the world around us to hide the way it came about, the way it evolved or the way it works, so that it can just sit before us to be appreciated and admired like a perfect, glistening box. Actions disappear in the outcome, cracks, defects and mistakes are concealed, spaces edited out. We like the outcome, the performance, the action, the event and the glamour – and we get rid of what’s in between, what’s absent, dull , the anticlimax, we wipe away everything we don’t want, tossing it into the real or virtual trashcan.
Hannes Schmid at Fotostiftung Schweiz (Zurich, Swiss)
Hannes Schmid – Never Look Back
Fotostiftung Schweiz
12 June to 19 September 2010
The cowboy-hero riding across the apparently endless prairie and never looking back is a modern icon decisively shaped by photographic images – as for example in the legendary Marlboro advertising campaign. The Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid took countless photographs for that campaign. Disseminated worldwide on ads and posters, they have repeatedly inspired our visions of freedom and adventure. What is the secret behind the success of this figure? How do you create images so striking that they enter our collective memory?
Where Three Dreams Cross (Winterthur, Swiss)
Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Fotomuseum Winterthur
12.06.2010 – 22.08.2010
Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and the United States. The exhibition Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and the publication accompanying it articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia.