January 13th, 2010 § 0
The Cologne city magazine Stadt Revue has listed our Mika Ninagawa Exhibition (January – March 2009) among the most important shows of 2009:
Mika Ninagawa: Liquid Dreams
Die feuchten Träume der japanische Startfotografin, höchst artifizielle Farborgien und kein bisschen anstößig. Bonbonbunte Unterwassaufnahmen verschmelzen mit Pop.Michael Krajewski
Jahres-Charts: Das war 2009.
Stadt Revue, 01-10, 2010, p. 67
December 27th, 2009 § 0
A Peaceful 2010
Priska Pasquer
Ferdinand Brueggemann
December 21st, 2009 § 0
The British Journal of Photography has published a list of top ten books of the decade. Among the top ten is Rinko Kawauchi’s book “Utatane” (Siesta). Rinko Kawauchi had published the book in 2001 and she received for “Utatane” and a second book “Hanabi” (Fireworks) in the following year the Kimura Ihei Award, a leading photography in award in Japan.
The top ten list was compiled by Gerry Badger, who co-authored the two volumes of “The Photobook: A History” with Martin Parr. In the first volume of the photobook anthology Gerry Badger wrote about “Utatane”:
Just when it seems that everything has been photographed, in every possible way, along comes a photographer, whose work is so original that the medium is renewed. Such a photographer is Rinko Kawauchi, who makes simple, lyrical pictures, so fresh and unusual that they are difficult to describe or classify.
December 15th, 2009 § 0
The German art magazine “Art” has in its current December issue an article about four German gallerists who are specialized in photography and about collecting photographs. The article starts with a portrait of Priska Pasquer:
LICHTBILDER UND LEIDENSCHAFT
Fotografie gilt auf dem Kunstmarkt immer noch als zweitklassiges Medium – trotz der Erfolge von Demand, Gursky und Co. Doch einige Experten arbeiten leidenschaftlich daran, dieses Image zu verändern. Zu Besuch bei Deutschlands wichtigsten Fotogaleristen.
// Stefan KoldehoffDie Spezialistin: Priska Pasquer, Köln
Am Anfang stand eigentlich nur der Wunsch, Menschen zu beraten, die sich ernsthaft für Fotografie interessieren: ihnen Sammlungskonzepte vorzuschlagen, Betrachtern die Möglichkeit eröffnen, auch Besitzer zu werden. Kunstgeschichte hatte die Kölner Galeristin Priska Pasquer ursprünglich studiert und währenddessen in der Galerie von Rudolf Kicken gearbeitet.
April 14th, 2009 § 0
Andrei Molodkin’s latest project is generating extensive media coverage, with newspapers such as The Independent, the Evening Standard, Financial Times and The Times reporting on Molodkin’s intention of continuing to use the notion of crude oil to symbolise the cycle of life and death. The artist has developed a technique for converting human bodies into crude oil that can then be used for sculptures.
Till death do us sculpt: Russian to render human bodies into art materials
Fancy a long-lasting keepsake of your loved one? What better than a statue made from the resin of their mortal remains?
It gives a grim new meaning to the term body art. A leading contemporary Russian artist says he has perfected a technique to boil human corpses into crude oil from which he will create permanent sculptures, and he has already signed up willing volunteers. [...]
The Independent
April 12th, 2009 § 0
Andrei Molodkin whose work we will show from April 17 at our gallery as well at our booth at the upcoming Art Cologne fair will represent Russia at the forthcoming 53rd Biennale di Venezia.
November 1st, 2008 § 0
Mika Ninagawa – with whom we are preparing a solo exhibition at our gallery which will open at January 23, 2009 – has a major exhibition in Tokyo:
Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors
at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from November 1 to December 28.
September 5th, 2008 § 0
This summer Asako Narahashi received the 24th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize. The artist won the prize for her recent series “half awake and half asleep in the water”, which we will exhibit at our gallery from September 12.
Higashikawa is a small town in Hokkaido, located at the north end of Japan.
The photo festival has been organized for over twenty years since 1985 and it is an important festival for Japanese contemporary photography. The following photographers have been awarded with the Domestic Photographery Prize until now:
September 3rd, 2008 § 0
The summer edition of ARTnews magazine1 has a review of the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” our partner Antoine de Vilmorin organized in Paris this spring.
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi records the ephemeral scenes that pass by each day barely noticed, searching for the sublime in the banal. The 40 photographs here came from her 2001 series “Utatane”, which means “catnap” and refers to a state of half sleep. The idea of letting go of conscious thought and giving oneself over to intimate moments tied together these breathtaking and occasionally melancholy still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
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August 24th, 2008 § 0
Rinko Kawauchi has currently a solo exhibition:
Rinko Kawauchi “Cui Cui”
at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (until Sept 9).
Since her debut, Rinko Kawauchi has surely established her career both in Japan and overseas. Her works captures ephemeral beauty in everyday life, from life to death, and its circulation, and it has been stimulating our, not only our sight, but also all the other senses.
“Cui Cui”- warble of sparrows in French- is a series of her family’s stories in 13 years Rinko Kawauchi had photographed from 1992 to 2005. Including the newly taken works after 2005, Rinko Kawauchi solo exhibition “Cui Cui” at The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum will show this series of the artist for the first time at a Museum in Japan.
[Quote: Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum]
