In 2003, the “Asociación OjodePez”
in Barcelona launched the magazine of documentary photography “OjodePez”.
The association was founded by several photographers with the following
declared aims: to internationally promote documentary photography
with all its facets and to publish specific themes and photographic
projects neglected in conventional media and publications due to
a lack of apparent commercial attraction. The artist Frank Kalero
is the director of “OjodePez”, which hopes to offer
“an undisciplined insight into documentary photography”.
The third issue of the magazine appeared during Frank Kalero’s
residence in Berlin as a fellowship-holder at Künstlerhaus
Bethanien. Presenting thirteen different photographers, this issue
was designed by Sven Ehrmann, Berlin. In Studio 3, Frank Kalero
is currently exhibiting numerous photographs and topics from the
previous issues, as well as showing a video interview with representatives
of OjodePez that gives more insight into the motivation and aims
of the magazine’s makers.
Frank Kalero: OjodePez - Studio 3 - 24th March
- 10th April 2005 - Opening: 23rd March 2005, 7 pm |
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Although Daniela Brahm is indisputably a painter,
her pictures often evolve into very three-dimensional architecture.
For example, gallery exhibitions may be transformed into accessible
urban areas when a number of paintings join together to create a
course of flattened, fictive buildings. Following this, the viewer
no longer knows whether painting is dallying with its own two-dimensional
quality, as in Minimalism, or whether it has bowed down to the real
exhibition space, merging together with three-dimensional objects
to form a narrative, parallel world. In the former hospital chapel
of the Künstlerhaus, Brahm has installed a parasitic architecture;
starting out from flat building components on the ground, it rises
like a tower to a height of 8.5 m, one side resting on the edge
of the gallery. The painter has then mounted a combination of her
own works and a number of directly painted wooden planks onto this
structure made of scaffolding parts and wooden slats. Formally,
the architectonic intervention seems to have been derived from the
urban-planning of “council housing estates”, as they
are called in England. The artist made a critical analysis of such
estates and their utopian character during a year’s stay in
England.
Daniela Brahm: Highrise
Studio 1 - 24th March - 10th April 2005 - Opening: 23rd March 2005,
7 pm |
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Essentially, Josée Dubeau
views her work with sculptures, installations and drawings as a
laboratory for investigation into human living conditions. With
her installation in Studio 2 of the Künstlerhaus, the artist
has created a space that one could describe as the topography of
office architecture: desks, some shelves and filing cabinets appear
to be waiting for the appropriate civil servants. Finally, at the
centre of the room there is a waiting area with seating for potential
clients. But Josée Dubeau’s “Office” is
not usable as such. Assembled from delicate strips of wood, the
objects merely draw the outline of each individual piece of office
furniture, meaning that the overall arrangement loses its three-
dimensionality; in the viewer’s perception, it takes on the
character of a drawing in space. In this way, the installation becomes
a model of the structures supporting bureaucracy.
>> Exhibition
Statement
Josée Dubeau : Espacement - Studio 2
- 24th March – 10th April 2005 - Opening: 23rd March 2005,
7 pm |
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