Summer photography in several London galleries set up interesting parallels and mutual connections.
Tate Britain
If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters
June 6 – Sept. 14
German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, Turner Prize winner in 2000, clipped and taped unframed photographs directly to the walls in Tate Britain for his retrospective exhibition. The early photos of friends in…
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“Synthetic image” is an expression used to describe a painted image numerically processed via informatics. Because it is held in coded form in the memory of the computer — on a magnetic tape or on an optical disc — it is unreadable to the human eye, unless in a projection on a cathode screen, or some other graphic receiver. The so-called pixels, or basic units of color image, carry light…
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May 4, 2003, day oneArrival in the commercial quarters of Berlin, close to Kurfürstendamm. Unknown faces in the lobby of the hotel Willmersdorf. In the elevator I met a woman and a man from Lithuania. The man’s name was Aistis Mickevičius, and the woman’s Ruta Papartyté, and the Hungarian Emese Szakacs. In the room in the hotel I perused their CVs and texts. The one by Szakacs catches my eye: “..…
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Budapest’s newest commercial art gallery is located in the ground-floor flat of a lovely old house in the heart of the city. In the courtyard, stairs with a stone railing lead up to a small porch big enough to host a smallish crowd of people chatting and smoking for openings. From there one can enter the gallery. The stairs, the stone railing and the porch, as well as the house itself, are relics…
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