I recommend reading this " The Telegraph" article on the russian street artist P183. Some stunning pieces.

the world of agnès b. / galerie du jour

If you happen to be in New York ( which I will :-) ) I recommend you go and see this Exhibition In Agnès b. third NYC outpost, Galerie Boutique.

«Certain Young French Photography» focuses on photographers recently recognized by agnès b. through her involvement with the Friends of Paris Beaux-Arts School Association and the Lucien and Rodolphe Hervé Association, whose work agnès b. has long supported.
The 7 photographers, Luna Picoli-Truffaut, Marc Cellier, Claudia Imbert, Nicolas Dhervillers, Claire Adelfang, Matthias Olmeta, and Leonard Bourgois-Beaulieu, all take a singular approach to their surroundings and develop other ‘invented realities’ that manifest their idiosynchrasies. Most of them deal with portrait: celebrities and unknowns are shot with an evident affection for the sitters; a provincial street under the rain brings to mind Atget and Brassai.
In addition, 3 artists using drawing are associated to the show: Lionel Avignon, a new artist introduced by agnès b., Abdelkader Benchamma represented by Galerie du Jour for the last 6 years and Kiki & Loulou Picasso, who have worked and showed at Galerie du Jour since the mid-80s.
In their works, portraits are also featured predominantly, presenting people and issues of contemporary society in a critical or ironical way, as well as aiming to draw the contours a re- invented planet.
In presenting photography and drawing for our second inaugural exhibition, an attempt is made to confront and coalesce the two mediums, discretely hinting at the most eminent figure of French photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who in his later years all but abandoned photo- graphy and never stopped drawing.

NICOLAS DHERVILLERS

MATTHIAS OLMETA

agnès b. Boutique Galerie
50 Howard Street
10013 New York NY
+1 212 431 1335

http://www.agnesb.com/newyork/exhibition/index.html

I hope you don't get bored with my crush for porcelain. It's also not the first nymphenburg post on fieldreport but this Lightscape  line I only just discovered and it's so beautiful it deserves an other mention here.

Sheets of hand-made paper, curved and folded into sculptures, made templates for vessels and plates. From these wafer-thin paper models, Nymphenburg porcelain master craftsmen then made delicate porcelain objects that match the original designs even down to their very fibre structure. The biscuit version – unglazed and unpainted on the outside, but covered on the inside with a fine glaze – draws all of its magical power from the architectural quality of the design and from the feel and the materiality of pure untreated porcelain.

We have a big collection of really nice books. Today I passed one of the overflowing shelfs and realized that I hardly ever look at them anymore. This made me wonder if it's really worth collecting stuff if one doesn't look at it any more....

So I sat down and looked at some books I have not taken out of the shelf for years. What a good idea! I totally forgot about all the boring stuff that I should have done and read for a good hour. I will definitely do this more often, that's why I came up with the idea of sharing my favorite rediscoveries here with you.

22.2.11

taken from cindy sherman, the complete untitled film stills, schirmer/mosel
One of my all time favorites - love that picture.

Elysian Fields was a purple exhibition in the centre pompidou back in 2000. I did like the exhibition a lot and the book they made is a true beauty.
This image captures my mood these days perfectly.

Paul Seawright, Ediciones Universidad Salamanca
This picture does not at all capture the mood in this book. Seawright's  fantastic work is a good bit darker than one might assume from this image.
The series is called the missing and beside the stunning lights and colours in that shoot I love the fact that this image gives me the impression I'm sitting in that cage looking at the blurry outside world.

We are very happy to see our colleague Uwe Wittwer taking part in the mayor "Watercolour" exhibition currently taking place at Tate Britain in London.

Uwe Wittwer also has a solo show running in parallel to the Tate exhibition. It is at Haunch of Venison Gallery in Burlington Gardens, London. You can see some installation shots here

I myself like to take pictures of sleeping people in trains and subways - there is something very special about them.
German photographer Michael Wolf took it to a whole different level in tokyo subways:

more here

Yesterday was the opening of the first show by Uwe Wittwer at the new Zurich gallery Lullin + Ferrari. It was the opening weekend for several galleries in that area of Zurich and it was a busy but also relaxed night, with a lot of interesting and interested people. Installation shots of the exhibition can be found here.

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The show titled "The Unknown Photographer" runs until October 23rd.

The exhibition at Lullin + Ferrari holds the character of a concentrated intimate play, which focus on the different ways of seeing. The lifesize painted, unknown photographer is the thematic leitmotiv of the exhibition: in a clearance he points his camera towards the public. He is completely absorbed in his occupation and requires from the public the same attention towards the paintings in the show he lends to the subject in front of his camera.
In the first room the large format painting Rotation (Diptychon) (2010) welcomes the visitors. In this image Wittwer positions a rollercoaster in a fun fair stupendously into the picture. The wagon of the rollercoaster itself can't be seen in the diptych, but its chattering resonates in the wooden construction and the noise of the fun fair surges up the construction. Beside the loud Rotation Wittwer places a contained Wall Piece (2010); on a black wall piece a large and old photography is painted, showing three attentive posing children.
In the middle room of the gallery hang the paintings Riders and Flurry (2010) in which Wittwer refer to previous groups of works. In the painting Riders a merry-go-round is depicted, turning in circles from the left to the right. Behind the boy in the left part of the painting a black drapery is raised, clearing the view onto a sunny landscape. On the right side of the image, menacing and darker hues predominate. The wooden horses suddenly allude to the horses in the battle paintings of the Florentine Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello, Wittwer had appropriated in previous, large works on paper. The painting Flurry inspires through the parallel order of the picture ground, through the outline of people shown in the snow and through its flush of colours. In the foreground of the painting sledges are visible, reminding of Wittwer's snow pieces from East Prussia. (from the gallery's press release)

How cool is that?! Japan’s rice crop art, which is created by carefully arranging different colors of rice plants in the field.
Red the whole article with many more pictures and videos on Pink Tentacle Blog.

© Extracts from Ariane Michel's film, Les Oiseaux de Céleste. Copyright Galerie Xippas, Ariane Michel and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, 2008
www.barbican.org.uk

27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London

Free admission
Times: Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm