FotoFest Announces Inner-Biennial
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Exhibitions |
New Talent - Texas
October - November 2006
The second in a series of exhibitions to highlight new and emerging Texas artists. Included in the exhibition will be photo-related works such as video, photography with painting and drawing, and classical photography. Jennifer Ward, FotoFest’s Exhibit Coordinator for the past three years, is curating the exhibit. The first exhibition in the series, Home and Garden, opened in November 2004.
City of Night: The Vargas Brothers Studio,
1912-1930, Peru
Carlos and Miguel Vargas
November 2006 - January 2007
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| Carlos and Miguel Varges, Rosalina Braide, Arequipa, Peru ,1926 |
One of the first comprehensive presentations of the avant-garde photography of Carlos and Miguel Vargas. In the early 20th century, the Andean cities in Peru were centers of remarkable, experimental movements in art -- theatre, literature, and the relatively new medium of photography. The Vargas Brothers did some of the most refined image-making of that time in Latin America. They were famous for their nocturnal scenes and their portraits of dancers, actors, and artistic personages of that time. The exhibit is curated by Houston-based researcher and curator Peter Yenne, who co-founded the Photographic Archive Project, which has investigated and conserved photography from Peru and Bolivia since the early 1990s. After its Houston premiere, City of Night will tour in Europe in collaboration with the Spanish arts organization, Canopia Gestiόn Cultural.
Contemporary Danish Photography
February - March 2007
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| Mads Ljungdahl, Dreamteam II, 2001 |
Contemporary mixed-media work by 39 of Denmark’s best-known photographic artists. Some of the strongest contemporary photography in Europe today is coming from Denmark. The works are very diverse - video, landscape, narrative, portrait, painted and urban images, revealing an aesthetic that is very different from what is produced in the U.S. today. The exhibition was produced by Daniel Strong of the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College in collaboration with Andrew Danneman, Northern Light Gallery, Copenhagen. The Houston presentation is collaboration with the Embassy of Denmark in Washington D.C.
International Discoveries
March - April 2007
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| Fred Baldwin reviewing at FotoGuanjuato in Guanajuato, Mexico |
A selection of some of the most interesting artists ‘discovered’ by FotoFest’s artistic staff at eight international events during 2006. As one of the world’s leading photographic arts organizations, FotoFest has been invited to participate as juror and portfolio reviewer at many photography events -- PhotoEspaňa in Madrid, Spain; FotoGuanjuato in Guanajuato, Mexico; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France; Bienal de Fotografia, Monterrey, Mexico; Rhubarb Rhubarb, Birmingham, England; Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Aleppo FotoFestival, Aleppo, Syria; Odense Triennale, Odense, Denmark; FotoFest Meeting Place in Beijing, China.
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SATURDAY MATINEE
Related Exhibit Programing
October 2006 - May 2007
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| Home & Garden slide talk |
A series of public artist talks, slide forums, artist/curator panels and student tours in conjunction with the exhibits.
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FOTOFEST2006
Artist Galleries |
FotoFest is about to launch Artist Galleries for FOTOFEST2006 later this month, featuring work from every FotoFest exhibition. Keep an eye out for the announcement, coming soon. |
| PROGRAMS FROM FOTOFEST2006 |
Brighton Photo Biennial, UK
The Sound of Silence
Alfredo Jaar
October 2006 |
Sound of Silence, a new video work by Alfredo Jaar was commissioned by FotoFest for FOTOFEST2006. Based on an internationally known, Pulitzer prize-winning image from the famine in the Sudan, Jaar’s work is a haunting and polemical inquiry into social ethics and media documentation of human tragedy. When FotoFest curators went to Alfredo Jaar to commission a new piece for 2006 and Artists Responding to Violence, Mr. Jaar said he had been thinking about The Sound of Silence for many years. FotoFest commissioned and produced this work, presenting its world premiere at the 2006 Biennial. For its European premiere at Brighton, the work will be installed in a church http://www.bpb.org.uk/ |
| FotoFest’s Meeting Place, Beijing China |
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| Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing press conference. (from left) Zhu Yan (artist), Li Bo (organizer), Sheng Hong Qin (Deputy CEO of China HP), Lei Gao (organizer), Li Mei (Chinese Reviewer). |
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A team of Chinese photographers, editors, curators and businessmen who came to Houston to see FOTOFEST2006 has asked FotoFest to collaborate with them to take FotoFest’s Biennial Meeting Place portfolio review program to China.
Their mission is to inform serious Chinese photographers, both creative art photographers and documentary photographers, about organizations and opportunities for photographic artists in different parts of the world. In the past three months, they have found sponsors and funds in China to launch the Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing 2006. On July 24, 2006 they held the press conference in Beijing to announce the event. The organizers in China are Hewlett Packard China, Lei Gao, founder of Q-Image Lab, Jimmy Chu, curator and director of Q-Image Lab, and Shushi Si, editor and curator. FotoFest International is the organizer overseas. Hewlett Packard is the chief sponsor, with additional support by Leica and China Photography magazine.
News of the event is being carried across China by 200 newspapers and magazines as well as more than 50 websites. International curators, editors, educators and publishers are being invited by FotoFest. The Meeting Place FotoFest Beijing 2006 takes place October 23-27, 2006. More details are to be published in the coming months. |
Foto&Photo in Cesano Maderno, Italy
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Artists from FOTOFEST2006 are featured at the sixth edition of the Italian international photography festival Foto&Photo, outside Milan. One of the nine official exhibitions
is the Metamorphosis work on the Canadian rainforests by Eric Klemm featured by FotoFest in its 2006 Biennial exhibition Life Cycle.Foto&Photo curator Enrica Vigano, who participated in the FOTOFEST2006 Meeting Place portfolio reviews, selected nine photographers from the Meeting Place for the Festival “Off” in cafes and restaurants around the center of Cesano Maderno. The artists are Alessandro Belgiojoso, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Julianne Eirich, Michael T. Griffiths, Alberto Mileti, William Mokrynski, Dorothy Richardson, Michael Starkman and Jim Vecchi.
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