Martin Parr (geboren 23 mei 1952 in Epsom, Surrey) is een Britse documentairefotograaf, fotojournalist en verzamelaar. Hij is bekend voor zijn fotografische projecten met een kritische blik op de moderne samenleving, met name het consumentisme, buitenlandse reizen en toerisme, autorijden, familie en relaties en voedsel.
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Philip Glass (Baltimore, 31 januari 1937) is een Amerikaans componist. Zijn muziek valt onder Minimal music, hoewel hij zelf de term theatermuziek gebruikt.
Fang Lijun (born 1963, Handan, Hebei province, China) is an artist based in Beijing.
He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including The Next Ones at Alexander Ochs, Beijing, New Work, New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Alors, la Chine? at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He is represented by Galerie am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Thomas Erben in New York, Soobin Art International in Singapore and Hanmo Gallery in Beijing. Fang Lijun is a founder of the Cynical Realist style in China and works often include aggressive, bald figures.
Gilbert & George is een Engels-Italiaans kunstenaarsduo, bestaande uit Gilbert Prousch (11 september 1943, San Martin de Tor, Italië) en George Passmore (8 januari, 1942, Plymouth, Engeland). Hun carrière als kunstenaarsduo begon in de late jaren zestig en duurt nog altijd voort.
Lewis Allen “Lou” Reed (New York 2 maart 1942) is een Amerikaans musicus en zanger. Lou Reed was samen met John Cale het gezicht van de invloedrijke band the Velvet Underground. Hij was een van de eersten die durfden zingen over onderwerpen als sadomasochisme (Venus in Furs), travestie (Sister Ray) en transseksualiteit (Lady Godiva’s Operation). Als gitarist was hij ook erg invloedrijk: hij maakte veel gebruik van distortion en alternatieve stemmingen.
Bernard Heesen (1958) komt al vroeg in aanraking met de glaskunst. Zijn vader Willem Heesen is jarenlang in dienst van Glasfabriek Leerdam als ontwerper van gebruiks- en sierglas. In 1977 richt Willem Heesen De Oude Horn op, de eerste onafhankelijke glasstudio in Nederland. In 1984 gaat Bernard werken in de glasstudio van zijn vader. Als glasblazer voert hij ontwerpen uit voor veel beeldend kunstenaars, maar al snel maakt Bernard ook eigen ontwerpen. In 1995 neemt hij de artistieke en technische leiding van De Oude Horn over.
The breakthrough of Pieter de Kok came a few years ago, at about the age at which, according to Camus, every man is responsible for his own face. He attended the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and took a leap into he unknown as a creative artist. His major motivation: to illuminate the often shadowy relationship between the individual and the group. He has just held his first successful exhibition at the leading Amsterdam gallery owned by Robert Malasch.
The exhibition was a milestone in an evolutionary process which has already taken about fifteen years, Pieter de Kok estimates,”The predisposition, the view of the world, in retrospect that has always been there. Yet it was not until I was about thirty-five that I recognised it: I have to do this, I have to take this road”.
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy in 1944. Vitali studied photography in London; he first worked as a photojournalist in the 1970s and then worked later as a movie camera operator. His more recent work can be considered as fine art photography.
Vitali’s chosen perspective for some of his works is from a podium (four or five meters high), with the use of large-format film cameras which are used to capture high-resolution details over a broad expanse in everyday scenes such as.
Feike Otto van der Zee. His house is his studio. The studio is his house. Armed with charcoal and colorchalk he brings lines to life on paper.
In contradiction to some classical artists, he tries to accomplish a close connection with the model. His art is very direct and raw, yet sincere and real. The directness of his work results in an ethical flexibility, which varies from pure, raw flesh to more veiled expressions. This contrast shines an interesting light on his work.
The human body is the main theme of his work and sexuality has played a major role so far. It’s all about the moment. Instinct and intuition are the most important drivers in his artwork. Through these key articulators, the paper forms the frame of the moment, filled up by the drawing that comes into existence as a result of the interactivity between artist and model.
In order to capture the moment more thorough he also photographs, so the lens of the camera becomes an extra determinant of that very same moment. The camera provides an additional frame around this momentum in life, next to his drawings. The photos are a by-product, but if they are strong he certainly uses them in his work.
Feike Otto van der Zee is a talented contemporary expressionist who approaches his models direct and selective on the streets. This proces reflects the spontaneity of the instinct and the intuition, the starting point of all his work.The streets of Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin and Barcelona define his main territory.
