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Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900

'Bewildering and fascinating show' Adrian Searle, The Guardian 'Many of the pictures in this exhibition are of the highest possible quality' Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph The striking paintings of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka star in this major exhibition which examines the central role portraiture played in Viennese painting around 1900. Vienna 1867 to 1918 – a time of artistic, cultural and social upheaval From 1867 to the end of the First World War in 1918, Vienna was the imperial capital of Austria-Hungary; one of the largest countries in Europe. In times of economic renewal and religious and ethnic tolerance, the city’s burgeoning, multicultural middle class declared its wealth and status through portraits, as well as its political sympathies and artistic tastes. In the years leading up to 1918, portraits often depicted anxiety and alienation, reflecting a rise in conservative, nationalistic and anti-Semitic mass movements and the collapse of the empire. With a view to the modern and an eye on the past, painters such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl and Oskar Kokoschka – as well as important yet less widely-known artists such as Arnold Schönberg, Broncia Koller and Isidor Kaufmann – produced work that was commemorative yet critical, cautious yet radical. An earlier generation of Viennese painters is represented by Hans Makart and Anton Romako. Date and time 9 October 2013 – 12 January 2014 Sainsbury Wing Exhibition Admission charge Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.15pm) Fridays 10am – 9pm (last admission 8.15pm) http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/vienna Review to follow.

Scalpay: Last of the Fishermen

Photographs by Johan Hallberg-Campbell

Curated by Donald Weber

Johan Hallberg-Campbell has an intuitive empathy for the subjects of his documentary portraiture. In this his latest work, part stills part video, Johan travels home to Scotland and through his own feelings and knowledge explores the persistence of memory and the viability of collective mythology. The population of the Western Isles is diminishing year on year as more and more young people leave their island’s heritage.

The future is absent here, the past lingers in the frozen hands of the fishermen; trades and skills no longer passed down generation to generation. Johan shows us what is left the present; ruddy, calloused, worked hard alive. He describes the life on the water and on the island, the waiting and the erosion of this culture. This is a powerful ensemble of images beautifully accompanied by the Gaelic narration of Ruth Morrison.

at the Pikto Gallery 55 Mill St, The Distillery District, Toronto.

From March 23^rd – April 29^th 2010

http://www.vimeo.com/9300959

http://www.johanhallbergcampbell.com

Colin Gray began to take photographs of his parents in the 1960s when he was 5 years old. At family occasions, holidays and celebrations Gray would be allowed one shot from the single roll of film in a square box brownie tin. Over the next three decades his series of photographs has accumulated into an extensive body of work documenting his parents loving, working, homemaking and playing.

'In Sickness and in Health' forms the final stages of 'The Parents' series. Begun in 2000, it shows his parents deterioration and ultimately his mothers' death.

The hospital and church visits became more frequent, the ailments more serious, the drugs regime ever more complex. Whilst his father struggled with his new role as a carer, Gray found that his photographs helped make sense of the deterioration and loss he was experiencing. Having reached the age that his parents were when he started the project, Gray now sees their history in his own future.

Born in Hull in 1956, Colin Gray studied at the Royal College of Art, London and lives and works in Glasgow. He has exhibited worldwide including shows at Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal; House of Photography, Prague and the Australian Centre of Photography in Sydney. He has appeared in numerous publications including 'The Photograph as Contemporary Art'.

A minigraph with an essay by Sue Steward has been published by Street Level to accompany the exhibition.

His book 'In Sickness and in Health' published by Steidl Mack, will be available in December.

Urgent, necessary, those eight films, as different as they may be, share a common aesthetics of confusion: they express the brutality sometimes needed to give birth to an image in some places and about some themes. But the worst thing is that those 8 films are wonderful - LIBERATION

About Itchy Scratchy

About Itchy Scratchy

“I think of it as the picture/s that you print up, just to a small working size, to get a look at. The ones that interest and trouble you because there is something that you don’t fully understand about them, as if you unconsciously did something. These pictures seem to signpost a new direction in a photographer’s practice, they are transitional pieces, and precursors to a new phase or project. I think all the best photographers have the guts to move beyond the pictures they already know they can make, and spend time with the itchy scratchy pictures to work out what comes next.”

Charlotte Cotton

Itchy Scratchy is an exhibition of photographs. The title is taken from this quote by Charlotte Cotton, where she describes the pictures which break photographers out of familiar ways of working. The exhibition affirms the role that happy accidents and epiphanies play in creative activity.

Itchy Scratchy was initiated by photographer/writer Jason Evans. All exhibitors have been invited to submit an itchy scratchy image to be reproduced on matt paper using an inkjet printer. The exhibition features a broad range of photographers, from the emerging to those of international repute.

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Sakiko Nomura’s Night Flight published 2008, Little More. Akio Nagasawa Publishing.

Untitled 2004/2006 © Sakiko Nomura

Nomura's work is a fresh tasting insight into contemporary Japanese photography. Check YAOHONG's blog for some juice or click on the link below;
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