FROM HERE ON OUT A CRITICAL REVIEW. KUNSTSTIFTUNG DZ BANK. February 15- 15 June 2024.
Photo-like images on the World Wide Web and on all digital devices mean that “photography” is once again on everyone’s lips. Do these data-based images have anything to do with drawing with light?We take this question as an opportunity to take stock and look at the history of the development of photography. What is photography?
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SIZE MATTERS. SCALE IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Kunstpalast, Berlin Group Show. 31st Jan 2024.
“Everything changes in an image when the zoom slider is adjusted: certain things are highlighted, detached from their context, exaggerated or reinterpreted. They move closer to us, allowing us to study them, or blur before our eyes”
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THE COLDER THE WEATHER THE WARMER THE HEARTS
“The Colder the Weather the Warmer the Hearts catwalk event is a vehicle to combine both the past and present, within a community setting as well as a conceptual act of physically activating photographic archives in a bold and unique way.”
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NEXT/PREVIOUS
The Gerald Moore Gallery 2nd-30th September.
The Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to present Next: Previous, a curated by Steven Scott that brings together works from eight artists with practices established in diverse fields. Artists include Andy Bannister, Frederick Bell, Andrew Bick, Peter Downsbrough, Susan Morris, Nicola Rae, Steven Scott, and Clare Strand.
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In the context of the exhibition, The Feast and the associated festival programme, we cordially invite you to join us for a special conversation between the English artist Clare Strand and the curator of contemporary art Dr Barbara Scheuermann, Kunstmuseum Bonn.
This event will take place in the grounds of Burg Lede in Bonn, celebrating the opening of Strands’ participatory work, “All that Hoopla”. After the discussion, the artist will operate the fairground stall herself, offering all attendees the enjoyable opportunity to take a chance to win her artwork.
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Skirts showing in Das Fest, Parrotta Contemporary Cologne,5th May- 21st July
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Uk-based artist Clare Strand filled a suitcase with selected artefacts spanning her engagement with research and personal collections throughout her 30-year career, and brought them to the NOUA project room.
These rarely-seen objects and exhibition souvenirs combined with narrated texts offer a ‘behind the scenes’ look of Strand’s process of making as well as her diverse interests.
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At the request of Les Cahiers du musée national d'art moderne, Pompidou, I invited poet, critic and founder of Ubuweb, Kenneth Goldsmith to chat about the acquisition of my recent work, Discrete Channel with Noise. This took place during the Covid lockdown of 2020. Click through to read.
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“Music creates a cybernetic circularity as it nourishes the body with vibrations while awaking the mind. Music illuminates the inner darkness of our black boxes. When listening to music, we feel that the separation between man and world disappears; we transcend our skin and our skin transcends us” (1)
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In 2020 Clare Strand and Steffi Klenz met at a Private view. Strand commented on Klenz’s over complicated top and in response, Klenz remarked on Strand’s boring grey jumper.
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All that Hoopla is an endeavour to decentralise the dynamics of conservative and hierarchical art market structures. It also highlights the variables of chance, luck, loss, fluke, risk and the vagaries of fortune, all of which are the central themes of Strand’s ongoing practice.
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“one of arts distinctions is to provide maximum emotion using minimum means, something in which photography excels. And when the photo in question shows nothing. Hidden under next to nothing Then you feel you are nearing the goal..”
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“We don’t want women readers. We won’t have women readers..’
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