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Heinz Hajek-Halke exhibition, new publication

August 21st, 2008 § 3

Heinz Hajek-Halke has a major retrospective in Munich at the Versicherungs Kammer, Bayern (until Nov. 2):
“Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten. Retrospektive”
With 150 photographs and glass negatives the exhibition gives a comprehensive overview about the oeuvre of Heinz Hajek-Halke with his early nude photographs and works for magazines, his experimental montages as well as his light graphics of the the 1950s and 1960s.

Galerie Priska Pasquer had exhibited his experimental photographs at the gallery in 2002 and we were also involved in the organization of a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2002 and in publishing the first comprehensive monograph about the artist in 2006. (See book details and a preview at Steidl Publisher.)

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Review of our summer exhibition ‘Review / Preview: Japanese Photographs’

August 15th, 2008 § 0

Our current summer exhibition: “Review / Preview: Japanese photographs by Osamu Shiihara, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa.” is reviewed in the localnews paper Koelner Stadtanzeiger:

Mond, Meer und Sterne
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Andere Sichtweisen präsentiert auch die Galerie Priska Pasquer mit ihrer Gruppenausstellung japanischer Fotografen wie Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi und dem Shootingstar Rinko Kawauchi. Damit gibt die Galerie einen ersten wirklichen Überblick über das eigene Programm zur japanischen Fotografie, die Priska Pasquer bereits seit der Gründung in regelmäßigen Einzelausstellungen zeigt – und mit denen sie ihr gutes Gespür beweist. Zu erwähnen sei allein die Ausstellung von Rinko Kawauchi vor zwei Jahren, deren Rückansicht eines Kindes den Katalog der Internationalen Photoszene Köln zierte und das gleichzeitig Titelbild der diesjährigen Messe Paris Photo sein wird.
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Damian Zimmermann, 13.8.08, Ksta.de

Gallery artists in recent publications: Rinko Kawauchi, Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa

July 27th, 2008 § 0

Rinko Kawauchi, Mika Ninagawa and Asako Narahashi have been featured in recent publications on photography and art.

Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa are included in two new books:

Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century
Uta Grosenick, Thomas Seelig (editors)
Aperture, New York 2008

As digital technologies and the homogenization of trends continue to impact photography, there are those artists who rise above the fray, producing compelling work that causes a commotion. Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century features the latest, greatest, and newly up-and-coming artists responsible for this furor.
[Quote: Aperture]

Tokyolife: Art and Design
Ina Luna, Lauren A. Gould, Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, Yoshida Mika, David G. Imber
Rizzoli, New York 2008

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Museum exhibitions of gallery artists: August Sander, Daido Moriyama, Asako Narahashi

June 12th, 2008 § 0

We just returned from the Art Basel 39 and three of the artists we exhibited at the fair are currently on show in US and Japanese museums:

August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
The Getty Center, Los Angeles
May 6 – September 14, 2008
The exhibition shows a selection of 130 portraits from the the Getty’s remarkable collection of 1,200-plus works by August Sander.

People of the Twentieth Century, the collective portrait of German society made by German photographer August Sander, has fascinated viewers from its earliest presentation in a 1927 exhibition and the controversial publication of a selection of 60 images in the book Face of the Time published two years later. Despite Sander’s dedication over five decades to the idea and compilation of this portrait atlas of the German people, the project remained unfinished. Nonetheless, his photographs remain compelling, in part because he chose to categorize his subjects by profession or social class. The images are thus representations of types, as he intended them to be, rather than portraits of individuals.
[Quote: Getty Center]

The Los Angeles Times had a positive review of the August Sander exhibition.

Daido Moriyama “I. Retrospective 1965-2005″ & “II. Hawaii”
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
May 13 – June 29

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AIPAD Photography Show New York

May 15th, 2008 § 0

A short note on AIPAD Photography Show New York, which was held from April 10 through Sunday, April 13 at the Park Avenue Armory. This year AIPAD organized a Gala Benefit Preview at the opening night of the fair. It was held to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art. The Benefit Preview as well as the whole fair was well attended.

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Rinko Kawauchi exhibition opening in Paris

April 6th, 2008 § 4

Last Thursday, April 3, our partner Antoine de Vilmorin opened the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” (Siesta”) in Paris. The opening which took place in an art space in the Marais was well attended.

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Rudolf Bonvie Exhibition Opening

February 21st, 2008 § 0

Last Friday, March 3, we openend the exhibition with Rudolf Bonvie’s series “La chasse photographique” from 1980 and the new “YouTubeWorks”.

The photo on the upper right shows the artist in the center.
The opening was well attended and went much longer than the official hours.

Rudolf Bonvie put up a special page on his website with the works exhibited and additional information on the YouTubeWorks: Website Rudolf Bonvie

Asako Narahashi – new artist at Galerie Priska Pasquer

February 1st, 2008 § 1

Recently we have added the photographs by the Japanese women artist Asako Narahashi to our gallery program. The first presentation of her work at the Paris Photo fair was quite successful and the press responded very enthusiastic to her series “half awake and half asleep in the water”. Hans-Michael Koetzle wrote in the magazine “Photo International” that Asako Narashashi’s work was “definitely the discovery at this years Paris Photo”.¹

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Michael Koetzle: “Paris Photo: Spitzenwerke, Spitzenpreise”. Photo International, 01/ 2008, p. 8 [↩]

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