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Bertien van Manen Tbilisi, 1993, 16 x 20 inch Chromogenic Print, Edition of 10
Bertien van Manen A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters January 4 - February 16, 2008
A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters refers to the span of time, space, and emotional distance Bertien van Manen captured while traveling across Russia by train and bus from 1990 to 1994, documenting people in Moscow, Uzbekistan, Siberia, Moldavia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Georgia. Her camera searches out a sense of meaning from their homes� kitsch floral wallpaper, pullout beds, oilcloth covered tables, and gaudily-framed paintings. Her work is characterized by the intimacy she achieves with her subjects, with whom she spent time, sitting at their tables, lodging in their homes, immersed in their reality. Leading Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, noted that her lens stands apart from the typical journalistic report on Russia, capturing that �most inaccessible of places�the homes of ordinary people�in order to show us how millions of Russians live and sleep, what they eat, what they look like in their everyday life, in their flats, at their tables, in their beds.�
Van Manen�s work is a meditation on human existence, revealing the truth of particular lives. In the case of the former Soviet empire, her subjects are a people who were conditioned to be fearful and suspicious, long forbidden to exhibit who they really were to the rest of the world. Van Manen shows the emergence of trust, gently penetrating their resistance to letting the world in, celebrating the country�s richness and humanity. In one photograph, a baby is tossed into the air. It is a frightening, yet possibly redemptive moment, speaking to the country�s rebirth and uncertain future.
Kapuscinski wrote, �Through her excellent photographs and her inquiring and humanistic temperament, and with powerful artistic expression, Bertien van Manen shows what historians, writers, sociologists and political scientists argue, that there are at least two Russias. There is the official, imperial, external Russia, known to us from newspaper headlines, and the one within, the hidden, poor Russian of the anonymous, ordinary people of whose existence Bertien van Manen�s moving and revealing album tells.�
Born in 1942 in The Hague, The Netherlands, van Manen currently lives and works in Amsterdam. A Hundred Summers, A Hundred Winters (1994) comprised a book, as did other extensive projects: East Wind West Wind (2004), for which she was a finalist for the prestigious Citibank Photography prize; and Give Me Your Image (2005), an exhibition of which was featured in the Museum of Modern Art�s New Photography �05. Van Manen�s prize-winning photographs are held in the collections of many major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Stedlijk Museum. Her work has also been exhibited internationally in museums such as the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Reina Sofia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo.
KUNST HALLE SANKT GALLEN presents David Renggli - Scaramouche
17 August - 27 October 2013
David Renggli - in some respects a prodigy of the Swiss art scene - has repeatedly aroused the curiosity of the public for more than ten years thanks to a unique mixture of themes and forms, of spectacle, humour and poetry.
The Showroom, London presents Ricardo Basbaum: re-projecting (london)
12 July - 17 August 2013
The Showroom is delighted to present re-projecting (london), a major new commission by Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum, and the first significant presentation of his internationally renowned artwork in the UK.
