Art Out: Hans Bol & Lucas Leffler, Bernd & Hilla Becher, and Tony Vaccaro
Hans Bol, #7998, 2021, from the series On My Doorstep.
Platinum-palladium print, framed with passepartout and museum glass
Image 15 x 12 cm, frame 39,5 x 34 cm.jpg
Lucas Leffler, Mudprint 12, 2018-2021, from the series Zilverbeek (Silver Creek)
Silver gelatin print with a mixture of mud
Steel frame with museum glass � 60 x 40 cm ,100 x 70 cm.jpg
Galerie Caroline O’Breen | December 17, 2022 – February 4, 2023
In the upcoming exhibition, Galerie Caroline O’Breen is pleased to present new photographic work by Hans Bol from his project On My Doorstep (2020-2022) and the Belgian artist Lucas Leffler with his recent series Silver Creek (2018-2022). Both artists are fascinated with the materiality of analogue printing while their work can be seen as contrasting to each other in aesthetics and approach.
Hans Bol makes small, intimate, mostly analogue prints ranging in technique from photogravures (toyobo) to handprinted silver gelatin and platinum-palladium prints. With these traditional 19th-century methods and a poetic approach to stillness and movement, Bol’s romantic aesthetics reveal through landscapes and scenes of nature. The exhibition coincides with the Dutch premiere of Hans Bol’s new book On My Doorstep, which was presented in Paris this fall. Like the book, the exhibition will be a showcase of this new body of work. Tijs Goldschmidt – recipient of the Jan Wolkers Award 2022 – has written a short text, Notes, in which he also reflects on the photographer's surroundings.
Lucas Leffler creates unique prints on (rusted) steel and ‘mud prints’ made from the soil on the bottom of Silver Creek river by means of darkroom printing processes. This stream close to Antwerp is known for a considerable leakage of silver from the analogue film factory Agfa in the 1920s. Leffler’s work is based on a strong interest in science and history and is stimulated by a fascination with chemistry. The exhibition features recent photographs by Lucas Leffler that reveal his unconventional ways of visualizing the Silver Creek story.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Towers (Germany, France, Belgium, United States, and Great Britain), 1963–80; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1980 (1980.1074a–p); © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher
SF MOMA | Dec. 17 –April 2, 2023
The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) changed the course of late 20th-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled 19th- and early 20th-century precedents but also resonated with the serial approach of contemporary Minimalism and Conceptual art. Equally significant, it challenged the perceived gap between documentary and fine art photography.
Using a large-format view camera, the Bechers methodically recorded blast furnaces, winding towers, grain silos, cooling towers and gas tanks with precision, elegance and passion. Their rigorous, standardized practice allowed for comparative analyses of structures that they exhibited in grids of between four and 30 photographs. They described these formal arrangements as “typologies” and the buildings themselves as “anonymous sculpture.”
Featuring 200 works of art, this posthumous retrospective celebrates the Bechers’ remarkable achievement and is the first exhibition ever organized with full access to the artists’ personal collection of working materials and their comprehensive archive. The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur.
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Fun in Finland (for Merimekko), 1965
©ALL PHOTOGRAPHS TONY VACCARO/ ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MONROE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
New York City Pop-Up Show Dec. 13-18, 2022 Santa Fe Show, Nov. 25, 2022-Jan. 15, 2023
NEW YORK and SANTA FE, NM—Two new exhibitions will celebrate the 100th birthday of acclaimed photographer Tony Vaccaro in New York City and Santa Fe. A pop-up show in New York City presented by Monroe Gallery of Photography will be on view at 21 Spring Street from December 13 through 18, 2022. A second show will be held at Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe from November 25, 2022, through January 15, 2023.
Vaccaro is known for his photographs of WWII, which were the subject of a 2016 HBO documentary, and his editorial work for Life, Look, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and countless other publications. The exhibitions coincide with Tony Vaccaro 100! on view at the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, Germany. In both
locations, Tony Vaccaro: The Centennial Exhibition, will juxtapose the living legend’s powerful war images with the lyrical mid-century fashion, film, and pop culture photographs that came later. Vaccaro will be in attendance for a reception in New York.
On view will be more than two dozen photographs dating from 1944-1979. From the battlefields of Europe to the rooftops of Manhattan, Vaccaro trained his inimitable lens with a sensitivity derived from early hardship as an orphan in Italy. After the war, he replaced the searing images of horror embedded in his memory, by focusing on the splendor of life and capturing the beauty of fashion and those who gave of themselves: artists, writers, movie stars, and cultural figures. From a photograph of a running soldier in 1944’s Battle of the Bulge to a shot of the actress Gwen Verdon swinging in a hammock against a New York skyline, the exhibition illustrates Vaccaro’s will to live against all odds and to advance the power of beauty. Several never-before-exhibited photographs will be on view: a 1951 image of a bevy of beautiful women surrounding one in a pink dress on a balcony, a 1968 shot of Vaccaro holding up a test strip during a photo shoot, and a glowing sunset portrait of the twin towers of the World Trade Center from 1979.
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