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[albarrancabrera]

I SEE YOU – 14 ARTISTS IN A DIALOGUE IN COLLABORATION WITH HARPER’S BAZAAR NL @bildhalle Amsterdam Friday, 13 September, 18 - 21h

Special thanks to @mirjamcavegn & @miluskavantlam who have curated this exhibition.

"I SEE YOU" is a reflection on a dialogue that references appreciation and true connection. It’s a direct acknowledgment of the “other”.

We’re honoured to be in this exibition "in dialogue" with one artist that we highly admire: Richard Caldicott @richardcaldicott He’s one of the main representatives of constructed photography. A key set of his work is a series of still lifes created using ordinary plastic containers. 

By playing with the interaction of light and colour, Caldicott no only makes the viewer forget about the quotidian use of these objects, but also emphasizes the qualities of the photographic medium itself, producing objects independent of any antecedent reality.

His innovative approach to photography opened our eyes to the medium's potential for creative expression. This style of work suggests that photography, through its interplay with light, time and chance, can create images that challenge conventional perceptions and interpretations.  . In our "Polarized" series, which is part of our "Opticks" project, we continue using photography to explore the 'structure of reality' and 'the why of things,' echoing Berenice Abbott's vision of photography as “the friendly interpreter of science.” Unlike previous series, this one investigates natural components that are normally invisible, except through experiments that make them visible.

Transparent objects, especially plastics, subtly alter how light passes through them, changes that are invisible to the naked eye. However, when exposed to polarized light and observed through a second polarizer, hidden internal differences reveal vibrant colors and shades of gray. . As Duane Michals states: "Photography deals with appearances, but nothing is ever as it seems."

1: © Albarran Cabrera, Polarized #55452, 2024  2: © Richard Caldicott, Combination Green, 1996 3: © Albarran Cabrera, Polarized #55450, 2024  4: © Richard Caldicott, Untitled #167, 1996

[keepingitneutral]

Jeffrey Conley, “Figure and Tide,” California, 2001,

Archival pigment print on Japanese bamboo paper, 

105 x 105 cm (41 5/16 x 41 5/16 inches)

Courtesy Bildhalle.

[oculablog]

Thomas Hoepker Andy Warhol in his factory, New York, 1981 Archival pigment print, printed by the artist, signed verso, edition of 7 Courtesy Bildhalle.

[nicoooooooon]

River runs always (2019) Toyobo chine-collé print on mitsumata washi paper by Paul Cupido

Cupido's most recent travels to Japan has yielded the Mukayu series. His imagery embraces the transitory, metamorphosis, emptiness, potentialities. With his modest works printed on self-made and Japanese washi papers—organic, artisanal, imperfect—he wishes to reach the heart more than the head.

The Mukayu exhibition runs until January 17th, 2021 in IBASHO gallery, Antwerp and until January 30th, 2021 in Bildhalle, Amsterdam.

[elmarvestner]

... Print, 2020 60x40cm

[oculablog]

Albarrán Cabrera The Mouth of Krishna #761, 2018 Pigment print Courtesy Bildhalle.

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Thirza Schaap showtime, 2020 Archival pigment print Courtesy Bildhalle.

[albarrancabrera]

“Throughout our lives, we spend a lot of time and even more money engineering pleasant experiences. We book airline tickets, visit beaches, admire glaciers, say hello to penguins, watch elephants drinking, and so on. In all this, the emphasis is almost always on the experience itself, which lasts a certain amount of time and then is over... We are not assiduous or devoted cultivators of our past experiences...They happen, and then we're done with them. They do sometimes come back to us, unbidden. We may be on a boring train ride to work but suddenly, an image of a beach at dusk comes to life. Or, while we're having a bath we remember climbing a flower-covered mountain with a friend a decade before. But little attention tends to get played to such moments. We don't engineer regular encounters with them...We should learn, regularly, to travel around our minds and think it almost as prestigious to sit at home and reflect on a trip we once took to an island as to trek to this island encased in our cumbersome bodies. Part of why we feel the need for so many new experiences may simply be that we're so bad at absorbing the ones we've had... There is a camera in our minds already that is always on. It takes everything we've ever seen. Huge chunks of experience are still there in our heads, intact and vivid, just waiting for us to ask ourselves leading questions like, 'Where did we go after we landed?' or, 'What was the first breakfast like?' When we can't sleep, when there is no wifi, we should always think of going on memory journeys... We can remain in touch with so much of what made them pleasurable, simply through the art of evocation...We can, right now, shut our eyes and travel into and linger amongst the very best and most consoling and life-enhancing bits of our past.” -“How to travel in your mind” by The School of Life . We hope that this great group exhibition “Fernweh” at Bildhalle Gallery helps you to do that. If you’re in Zürich, do not miss it! . 2 July - 22 August 2020