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Brachfeld-Gallery.com - RSS Feed http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/feed.php en-US Geometry of Place http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=74 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/74/img243532649_glythumb74_justinoksmall.png'></td><td valign='top'> May 28 – June 25, 2013 Opening May 28th from 7pm – 10pm Noveller Performance at 8:30pm Brachfeld Gallery, Paris Brachfeld Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition “Geometry of Place” by American artist Justin James King.  The Opening on May 28th will also include a special live performance by Noveller.     “Just as we envision all of space as really being out there, as really existing, we should also envision all of time as really being out there, as really existing too.”   - Theoretical physicist, Brian Greene     Intertwining creation mythology, archaeology, particle physics and topology, Justin James King explores the transportive, shifting nature of landscape and our relationship to place.   Born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York, a historic picturesque town, King grew up seeing landscape as a manifestation of culture. Aside from the American landscape being a recurrent theme in his work, his creative process involves producing his work in specific site locations that have personal, cultural, historical and geographical significance; like pre-historic Cambrian seabeds, sacred ancient lands, hurricane-ravaged regions…   A Brooklyn-based artist who studied at The Museum School in Boston, he feels that his real education came from reading Beuys and Duchamp. Finding the meaning in everything. He has worked and exhibited work in various mediums, yet recently works primarily with photography through a 4x5 large format camera. His work has appeared in art publications such as Sculpture and Conveyor Magazine, he has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally including Jen Beckman Gallery in New York City, St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, Paper Mill Gallery in Sydney, 25CPW in New York, The Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, VRT in Brussels and Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, and he has received several awards including best personal work at the New York Photography Awards and the Arthur Griffin Legacy Award.   In his new series of work conceived for the “Geometry of Place” exhibition, King continues to bridge the boundaries between sculpture and photography, combining photographs, drawings, and objects creating a new topology and connectedness.   The artist takes an installation approach for this exhibition featuring large geometric murals, large-format black/white and color photographs, and cast objects resembling artefacts.   The technical process involved in making his images varies from minimally touched photographs, to deceivingly simple, highly constructed images in both black and white and color.   For the black and white pieces the artist traveled to a hurricane-ravaged landscape in central Vermont where at night, he took pictures using small flashes, existing storm debris and hand-cut pieces of light-reflective material, where he created and photographed site-responsive still life works.   The photo ‘Above the Birthplace of the Universe’ was taken on a Northern California mountaintop sacred to the Native American Ohlone tribe, who believe this to be the place of origin for the universe. A camera was pointed straight toward the night sky, and an eight and a half minute exposure was made. Justin James King video click <a href="http://vimeo.com/60557137">here</a> Also performing live at the opening on May 28th is the artist Noveller.   Noveller is the solo electric guitar project of Brooklyn-based composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the guitar as her muse, Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive how it’s housed in a single instrument manipulated by a solitary performer. Her one-woman guitar soundscapes have captured the attention of NPR, The Village Voice, Time Out New York and The Wall Street Journal. Noveller has toured the U.S. and internationally, at times supporting acts such as Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, U.S. Girls, Aiden Baker, and the Emeralds. Lipstate has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, The Geraldine Fibbers), David Wm. Sims (the Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid), and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). She has previously performed as a member of Cold Cave, Parts & Labor and One Umbrella. Lipstate has also participated in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, Ben Frosts’s “Music for 6 Guitars” Ensemble, and Glenn Branca’s 100 Guitar Ensemble. To Experience:  the Noveller “Ends" video click <a href="http://vimeo.com/22698309">here</a></td></tr></table> Tue, 14 May 2013 17:43:53 +0200 Concert http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=73 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/73/img1702487501_glythumb73_Kaceysmallgood.png'></td><td valign='top'><div> MAY SATURDAY 18TH FROM 7 PM</div> <div> brachfeld gallery is very happy to welcome Kacey Johansing,  californian musician based in San Francisco.  Described by The Bay Bridged as “gorgeous acoustic pop”, San Francisco based musician Kacey Johansing creates songs with meandering melodies, lush harmonies and moody aural landscapes. Weaving together elements of folk, jazz, pop and classical music, it sounds as if she spent years studying in old smoky theaters with icons Leonard Bernstein and Joni Mitchell directing the show, and The Beach Boys in the orchestra pit. A soulful, honeyed voice and lilting vibrato land her the leading role. <a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">http://</a><a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">www.kaceyjohansing.com/</a><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kacey-Johansing/280936311745   <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer;"> Special DJ set by Simone RUBI</h1> To make this event even more sparkling, Simone Rubi is coming from Los Angeles to spin some records.  Come early and bring your friends!  <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;"><a href="http://www.simonerubi.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">http://www.simonerubi.com/</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/simonerubimusic" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/simonerubimusic Opening </a>pictures by Paul Mouginot </div> </td></tr></table> Tue, 14 May 2013 15:50:59 +0200 Benjamin Alexander Huseby / Some Men http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=72 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/72/img536836899_glythumb72_jeannettesmall.png'></td><td valign='top'><div style="text-align: justify; ">     Exhibition: April 17th - May 21st 2013     Opening: Tuesday April 16th 2013 Brachfeld gallery is proud to present “Some Men” by Benjamin Alexander Huseby.   Best known for his photography, Benjamin Alexander Huseby’s output crosses several disciplines and professional fields, often juxtaposing his somewhat disparate interests in esoteric science, natural history, and counterculture. Of mixed Norwegian and Pakistani descent, Huseby spent his youth living in squats as a radical activist in an eco-warrior group. This fellowship with counterculture has remained important in his work and his process.  Now based in Berlin, he continuously traverses the boundaries between the art and commercial worlds. While still a student at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, from which he graduated in 2000, he began adapting his documentary photography for the magazine Dazed and Confused.  Since then he has continued taking assignments for publications such as Acne Paper, Butt, I-D, Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman, Purple, Vogue, etc. His work has also been actively exhibited, including shows at KW Berlin, ICA, The Photographers’ Gallery London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Kunsthall Oslo, as well as projects with the artist collective Bernadette Corporation and his longtime collaborator, video artist Lars Laumann. “Some Men” consists of twelve individual works photographed between 2005 and 2012, eleven of which were taken with the same 35mm analogue SLR camera. Without making any specific distinctions or hierarchies, the show mixes camera formats and printing techniques, and the framing techniques and materials are as varied and intimate as the works themselves. The subject matter consists of portraits of men – or at least biologically born men. The images vary from fathers with their children, young boys and naked trans women to a teenage gay couple kissing, yet all speak of gender perceptions and ideas of masculinity.  </div> <div style="text-align: center; "> ***  </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> La galerie Brachfeld est fière de vous présenter Some Men de Benjamin Alexander Huseby.   Principalement connu pour ses photos, Benjamin Alexander Huseby se place en réalité au croisement de plusieurs disciplines et domaines professionnels, combinant souvent ses passions quelque peu disparates pour l’ésotérisme, l’histoire naturelle et la contre-culture. Huseby, d’origine norvégienne et pakistanaise, a passé sa jeunesse dans les squats, militant en tant qu’activiste dans un groupe écoguerrier. Ce compagnonnage avec la contre-culture restera très présent dans son &oelig;uvre et son parcours ; depuis Berlin, où il est basé aujourd’hui, il traverse sans cesse les frontières entre art et univers commerciaux. Alors qu’il n’était encore qu’un étudiant du Chelsea College of Art, d’où il sortira diplômé en 2000, Huseby commença à envoyer ses photos documentaires (adaptées) au magazine Dazed and Confused. Depuis, il répond très régulièrement à des commandes pour des magazines tels que Acne Paper, Butt, I-D, Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman, Purple, Vogue et d’autres. Son &oelig;uvre a été également activement exposée, notamment par la KW Berlin, l’ICA, la Photographers Gallery de Londres, la galerie d’art Whitechapel, la Kunsthall à Oslo, et lors de collaborations avec des artistes comme le collectif Bernadette Corporation ou encore Lars Laumann, artiste vidéo avec lequel Huseby travaille depuis longtemps. Some Menconsiste en douze travaux individuels, réalisés entre 2005 et 2012. L’exposition présente des formats et des techniques d’impression variés, sans établir une quelconque distinction ou hiérarchie. Tout les portraits (sauf un) ont été réalisés avec le même appareil photo argentique SLR 35mm ; les techniques de cadrage et les matériaux utilisés sont tout aussi divers et personnels que l’est l’&oelig;uvre en elle-même. L’exposition nous montre des portraits d’hommes – ou, tout au moins, de personnes nées « hommes » d’un point de vue biologique. On y trouvera des pères avec leurs enfants, des jeunes garçons, des transgenres MTF nus, et un couple de garçons adolescents en train de s’embrasser… et toutes ces images nous parlent, dans leur diversité, des perceptions de genre et des conceptions de la virilité.            </div> </td></tr></table> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:25:52 +0200 PARIS PHOTO LOS ANGELES http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=71 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/71/img1318817208_glythumb71_smalldavid.png'></td><td valign='top'> David Armstrong / Night & Dayâ€¨  Private Preview Thursday, April 25th   Solo exhibition April 26th-April 28th   The Brachfeld gallery is coming to Paris Photo Los Angeles from April 26th to 28th with a solo exhibition of David Armstrong.   For the first edition of Paris Photo in Los Angeles, the Brachfeld gallery is honoured to present American photographer David Armstrong with the exhibition Night and Day inspired from his eponymous book, published by Aron Mörel Books. The exhibition combines a selection of iconic Kodachrome color snapshots taken between Cape Cod and New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and with some of Armstrong’s first more formal black and white portraits taken during the same period of many of the same characters. The images are a true photographic report of the wild-bohemian nights and innocent mornings of the pre-AIDS east coast downtown scene.   These images also witness a generation of young talented artists who changed the creative horizon such as Rene Ricard, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Waters, Nan Goldin etc.   You’ll be pleased to discover that the photographs at Paris Photo Los Angeles are unmistakably timeless, romantic, life affirming, naturally lit and unavoidably intimate.   A limited edition of 8 signed Night & Day books, published by Mörel, are for sale at our booth, each of them including a unique print (C-print, dimensions 11x7,5cm) of David Armstrong.   Find us in booth G3 / New York Street Backlot                           *** â€¨â€¨ David Armstrong / Night & Day   Vernissage professionnel le jeudi 25 avril de 17h à 21h   Exposition du 26 au 28 avril 2013   La galerie Brachfeld sera présente à Paris Photo Los Angeles avec une exposition personnelle de David Armstrong du 26 au 28 avril 2013.   Pour la première édition de Paris Photo à Los Angeles, la galerie Brachfeld est heureuse de présenter le photographe américain David Armstrong et son exposition intitulée « Night and Day », inspirée de son livre éponyme publié par Aron Mörel Books. L’exposition réunira une sélection d’images fétiches Kodachrome prises entre la fin des années 1970 et le début des 1980 à New York. Ces images constituent une mémoire photographique des nuits décadentes de cette période insouciante.   Ces images sont également le témoin d’une génération de jeunes artistes talentueux qui ont changé l’univers créatif comme René Ricard, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Waters, Nan Goldiin etc.   Vous aurez le plaisir de découvrir à Paris Photo L.A. ces photographies uniques, intemporelles, romantiques et inévitablement intimes.   Une édition limitée du livre « Night and Day » sera en vente sur notre stand. Tous les exemplaires seront signés et comprendront un tirage unique (C-print, dimensions 11x7,5cm) par David Armstrong.    A bientôt sur notre stand G3 / New York Street Backlot   Preview: April 25th 2013 / 5pm – 9pm Opening hours : April 26th and 27th / noon – 7pm ; April 28th / noon – 6pm </td></tr></table> Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:09:01 +0100 MACK Pop-up Store http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=70 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/70/img1558142567_glythumb70_xoubanovsmall.png'></td><td valign='top'>Du 9 mars au 2 avril 2013 <div style="text-align: left; ">  </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> La Galerie Brachfeld a l‘honneur d'accueillir la maison d'édition britannique MACK pour leur premier pop-up store à Paris.                                   Depuis ses débuts en 2010, MACK est devenu une référence majeure dans le domaine du livre de photographie et d'art contemporain. Fort d’une collaboration étroite de deux décennies avec l‘éditeur Steidl, le fondateur Michael Mack cherche à concevoir des livres innovants avec une sélection pointue d'artistes, qu'ils soient reconnus ou émergents, parmi lesquels l’on peut citer Anthony Hernandez, Luke Fowler, Martin Boyce, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Thomas Demand, Bertien van Manen, Taryn Simon, Antonio M. Xoubanova, Paul Graham, Luigi Ghirri, Mark Dion, Roe Ethridge, Christian Patterson et Anders Petersen. MACK a publié quelques-uns des livres les plus beaux et les plus exigeants de ces dernières années. Leur succès a été reconnu par plusieurs prix importants et par de nombreux articles dans la presse internationale. A cette occasion, l'artiste Antonio M. Xoubanova est invité à exposer une série de photographies extraites de son livre Casa de Campo. Cet ouvrage est une fable photographique ancrée dans la réalité du plus grand jardin public de Madrid. Xoubanova est l'un des membres fondateurs du collectif Blank Paper. Casa de Campo est son premier livre.</div> <div> <div> <div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">  </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="text-align: center; "> ***  </div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> The Brachfeld gallery is honoured to welcome independent british publishing house MACK to rue des Archives for their first pop-up store in Paris.</div> <div style="text-align: justify; "> Since its beginnings in 2010 MACK has been setting new standards for quality in photography and art publishing. With two decades of experience from working with Steidl, founder Michael Mack has focused on making challenging book works with a select group of renowned and emerging artists, including Anthony Hernandez, Luke Fowler, Martin Boyce, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Charnin, Thomas Demand, Bertien van Manen, Taryn Simon, Antonio M. Xoubanova, Paul Graham, Luigi Ghirri, Mark Dion, Roe Ethridge, Christian Patterson and Anders Petersen. MACK has published some of the most beautiful and exquisitely designed books of recent times, a fact recongnised in wide international press coverage and numerous awards in the short time of the publishing house. On this occasion, the artist Antonio M. Xoubanova is invited to show a series of photographs from Casa de Campo. This book is a photographic fable rooted firmly in the reality of Madrid's largest public park. Xoubanova is one of the founding members of the Blank paper Collective. Casa de Campo is his first book. Book signing on March 9th from 3pm to 6pm. <a href="http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/newbooks/">Mackbooks.co.uk</a></div> </td></tr></table> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:30:58 +0100 CÃ©cile Bortoletti sur - nature http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=69 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/69/img17257689_glythumb69_cecilebsitepast.png'></td><td valign='top'> <kbd>26 janvier - 23 février</kbd> <kbd>Vernissage le samedi 26 janvier de 19h - 22h</kbd>  <kbd>Photographier la nature à Hyères et dans ses alentours n’est pas une mince affaire : il s’agit d’une sur-nature, mélange à la fois luxuriant et géométrique de végétation méditerranéenne et d’adoption de plantes exotiques. Comment s’y prendre pour donner un petit goût de cet Eden aux maintes facettes qui fait partie du quotidien de tant de gens ? Cécile Bortoletti s’est promenée partout dans la région pendant une année (avec son appareil photo, à travers les saisons et les changements que chacune impose). Ce fut un pèlerinage presque ascétique, une initiation noyée dans l’inquiétude et le ravissement. La méthode Bortolettienne, faite de compilations, de superpositions et d’antithèses, ne consiste pas à essayer de déchiffrer la complexité de la nature et d’y comprendre quelque chose, ni à apprivoiser les mystères. Il s’agit au contraire de se confronter à la fois au grand tout de la nature et à chacun de ses petits détails, à rendre le côté kaléidoscopique de cette expérience. Les paysages paradisiaques et la sécheresse, les jardins magnifiés et la végétation éparse, les enchantements et les moments de désolation, les chemins ombrageux et l’impitoyable soleil, la clarté et l’embrouillement, les arbres robustes et les maladies des palmiers, la présence des hommes et des constructions dans la nature, toutes ces différentes espèces de plantes et de fleurs ne sont que quelques exemples parmi les cibles - volontaires et involontaires - de l’objectif Bortolettien, qui, éternellement avide de sérendipités, nous racontera cette histoire vécue en 2012. L’exposition sera accompagnée d’un catalogue contenant un récit de Yagos Koliopanos et d’un texte de présentation de Catherine Chevalier.</kbd>   <kbd>Notice biographique</kbd> <kbd>Cécile Bortoletti, vit et travaille à Paris. A la fin des années 80, elle étudie le cinéma et la photographie à l’Université de Paris VIII où elle suit les cours de Claudine Eizykman et les séminaires de Gilles Deleuze. Elle découvre très vite la scène expérimentale artistique française, y participe activement, en devenant l’assistante du producteur de théâtre et réalisateur Marc’ O avec qui elle travaille plusieurs années. A la même époque, elle produit des films expérimentaux en super 8 et 16mm et commence aussi à travailler comme photographe. Elle participe à la création du groupe « MOLOKINO », avec Hélèna Villovitch, David TV, Agathe Gris. Le MOLOKINO organise des séances d’ «Expanded Cinema», mêlant installations filmiques et performances, interrogeant la relation classique entre écran et spectateur.</kbd> <kbd>Le MOLOKINO se produit alors dans des lieux encourageant la culture alternative, aussi bien que les principaux musées européens et institut d’art. Cécile Bortoletti est également impliquée dans la création du magazine 101, qui oppose différentes pratiques du cinéma ; du cinéma politique, aux installations et performances, du cinéma dada à l’art vidéo. Elle est répertoriée dans l’annuaire du cinéma expérimental de Nicole Brenez, Jeune, dure et pure! Une Histoire du cinéma d’avant-garde et expérimental en France, édité par la Cinémathèque Française. Dans les années 90, elle s’implique particulièrement avec une nouvelle génération de créateurs de mode et initie des collaborations avec des créateurs comme Bless, Martin Margiela, Charles Anastase, Marjan Pejovski, et l’artiste Eric Camus. Elle participe au Festival d’Hyères en 1998. Elle travaille alors quatre saisons pour Issey Miyake, réalisant toutes leurs images de campagne, homme et femme. En 2009, elle participe à l’exposition L’Univers Invisible au palais de l’UNESCO, organisée par l’Observatoire de Paris, sur le thème de la matière noire. Elle réalise des photos de nuit dans une forêt, le contact avec les sciences s’établit sur l’imaginaire qu’il accompagne, révèlant une nature </kbd>«<kbd> doublée d’invisible ». En 2010, elle expose à la galerie Just Jaeckin, 18 images / seconde. Conçue alors comme une minute de cinéma muet, l’exposition présente 18 images où se mêlent modèles, paysages souvenirs, travaux plus personnels, souvent en surimpression, réalisées à la prise de vue, sur les dernières années. Dans son texte de présentation, Roy Genty évoque une photographie « où l’inspiration excède l’image qui n’est que la trace manifeste d’un rituel plus secret.» A Hyères, fin 2010, elle participe à l’exposition Collections, dans laquelle sont présentées des photos réalisées pour Issey Miyake dans l’enceinte de la Villa Noailles. Ses séries de mode ont été publiées dans le Purple, Dazed & Confused, M Le Monde, Lurve, Metal, Self-Service, Crash, Libé Style, Please, Sleek, Commons and Sense, Tranoi et Studio Voice, ainsi que des magazines comme ELLE, L’Officiel, L’Optimum, L’Express Styles, le quotidien NIKKEI.</kbd> <kbd>English Version</kbd> <kbd>Photographing the nature of Hyères and its surroundings is quite a challenge, for it is actually a</kbd> <kbd>super-nature, a mix both luxurious and geometrical of mediterranean vegetation and cultivation of exotic plants. How can one go about to give a taste of this multi-faceted Eden that is part of so many people’s everyday life? Cécile Bortoletti wandered everywhere around the area during a year (with her camera in hand, through the passing of seasons and the changes that each one imposes). It turned out to be a nearly ascetic pilgrimage, an initiation drowned in rapture and restlessness. The Bortoletti method, made of compilations, superimpositions and antitheses, is not about trying to decipher the complexity of nature and get a meaning out of it nor about unravelling its mysteries. It is, on the contrary, about confrontation at the same time with the whole of nature and with its every single little detail, recipe for a kaleidoscopical experience. Paradisiacal landscapes and aridness, magnified gardens and sparse vegetation, enchantments and desolations, shady paths and merciless sun, entanglement and brightness, robust trees and palm diseases, the presence of men and construction in nature, all of these different types of plants and flowers are more examples among the targets - both voluntary and involuntary - of Bortoletti’s lens, which will narrate us this story lived in 2012, in an effort to quench its thirst for serendipity. The exhibition will be a accompanied by a catalogue including a short story by Yagos Koliopanos and a preface by Catherine Chevalier.</kbd> <kbd>Biography</kbd> <kbd>Cécile Bortoletti lives in Paris where she was born. In the 90’s, she studied cinema and photography at the University Paris VIII, attending the courses of Claudine Eizykman and the seminars of Gilles Deleuze, among others. She then worked as assistant of avant- garde theatre producer and director Marc’O during several years, and later started to create experimental films with the group «MOLOKINO» she created with David T.V, Agathe Gris, Hélèna Villovitch. Following in the steps of Man Ray, they promoted «expanded cinema».The MOLOKINO group is consequently being invited in numerous spaces related to film, alternative culture, as well as art institutes, galleries and spaces related to improvised acts. At the same time she begins to work as a photographer in collaboration with the designers Bless, Martin Margiela, Charles Anastase and Marjan Pejoski. In 1997 she presents her work at the Festival International des Arts de la Mode in the city of Hyères. Cecile Bortoletti’s work is published in Le Monde, Purple, Dazed & Confused, Self- Service, Commons & Sense, L’Officiel, Crash, Studio Voice, Nikkei, ELLE, Lurve, Metal and others. During three years she worked for Issey Miyake realizing their advertising campaigns for men and women. She continues her work in film and has realized a short-film for the Christian Lacroix exhibition curated by Christian Rizzo and David Dubois. In 2010, she presented a solo exhibition called 18 images/seconde at the Just Jaeckin gallery in Paris.</kbd>   </td></tr></table> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:06 +0100 Night and Day http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=68 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/68/img629670962_glythumb68_webpast.png'></td><td valign='top'>David Armstrong November 15th - December 22nd 2012 Opening: Thursday, November 15th, 7 - 10pm A l’occasion de Paris Photo, brachfeld/gallery a l’honneur de présenter une sélection d’oeuvres du photographe basé à New York, David Armstrong. Cette exposition, inspiré par le livre éponyme Night and Day, édité par Aron Mörel de Mörel Books, regroupe une série de photographies issues de ce dernier ouvrage. Cette série de Kodachromes puisés dans les archives du photographe, est accompagnée de portraits noir et blanc datant de cette même époque, la fin des années 70. Les images de David Armstrong éclairent, par leur naturel et leur spontanéité, le regard que nous portons sur cette période d’insouciance que représente la fin des années 70, avant le tumulte des années 80. Elles sont également le témoignage de cette génération d’artistes, Nan Goldin, Rene Ricard, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Waters et David Armstrong lui-même, que nous pouvons reconnaître dans certains clichés et qui ont bouleversé le paysage créatif contemporain. Armstrong, est indéniablement un maître dans l’art de capturer des images intemporelles. Entre ses instantanés en couleurs de scène quotidiennes, iconiques de son oeuvre et un travail plus appliqué et formel en noir at blanc, l’ensemble donne une vision contrastée et moderne de cette époque révolue. On the occasion of the photography fair Paris Photo, brachfeld/gallery is proud to present a selection of work by New York based photographer David Armstrong. The exhibition, inspired by the eponymous book Night and Day published by Aron Mörel for Mörel Books, mixes a series of color Kodachromes drawn from Armstrong’s archives of the late 70’s and early 80’s included in that book, with more formal black and white portraits taken by the photographer over the same period. Armstrong’s work illuminates an intimate and carefree era of innocent-bohemian wildness preceding the tumultuous later 80’s. His images are witness to a generation of artists, such as Nan Goldin, Rene Ricard, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Waters, and David himself, who have come to represent an era of American culture and whose work has re-shaped and thus created the contemporary art scene. David Armstrong is undeniably a master of capturing timeless images. Either with his color snapshots of every day life or his more formal and applied black and white portraits, the totality of his work illustrates a contrasted and mordern vision of a bygone and yet revolutionary era. </td></tr></table> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:14:57 +0200 Beware, My Lovely http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=67 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/67/img809272142_glythumb67_INVITATIONpastweb.png'></td><td valign='top'>October 11 - November 10 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11th, 7 - 10pm Yelena Yemchuk's output as a visual artist is immediately recognizable, regardless of medium. Hers is a unique vision, possessing a surrealistic whimsy and dark romanticism that is unmistakably her own. With this most recent Â watercolor series, Yemchuk continues to expand on this vision. Present in this latest material is a stronger narrative thread, with heavier emphasis on the human rather than the animal form. Seemingly disparate subject matter such as Napoleon, the nursing profession, Eastern Slavic and Mexican history are explored, and unified, as Yelena playfully pokes fun at the glorification/sexualization of violance and darkness...dominance and submission, religious iconography, totalitarianism, bureaucracy, gender politics, and death itself - all of which is rendered apolitical and ridiculous via her magical prism. The result is cutting, surreal and deeply humorous, and a further maturation of Yemchuk's singulat body of work. Yelena Yemchuk was born in Kiev, and immigrated to the United States with her parents, an athlete and a teacher when she was eleven. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Art Center in Pasadena. Yelena is a multi-talented artist based in New York. She is known for her fashion photography contributions to a myriad of Vogues, around the world, Dazed & Confused, AnOther, NumÃ©ro, TAR Magazine, The New Yorker among others. Her paintings and photographs have been exhibited around the world ( New York, L.A., Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, Sidney and many others). She published her first book, Gidropark in April 2011.</td></tr></table> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:07:29 +0200 JOHN CAGE & LOHNER - CARLSON: Silences http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=66 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/66/img757689964_glythumb66_JCpast.png'></td><td valign='top'>Opening Reception: Thursday, September 20th, 7 - 10pm September 20th - 26th In honor, and in collaboration with the John Cage Centennial colloquium taking place in Paris, brachfeld/gallery is proud to welcome artists and filmmakers Henning Lohner and Van T. Carlson and their Video-Photography collection: Silences Silences is a video-photography collection from American artists Henning Lohner and Van Carlson who collaborate under the name Lohner-Carlson. The name of the work results from the fact that video-pictures are not followed by any sound and are also based on the notion of silence that John Cage introduced into music. The idea for their Video Pictures arose from a love for video photography and from their subsequent despair over the loss of the images when turning them into a film. What they call the "Video Picture", or the "Active Image",  is a displayable motion image that bridges the recognizable gap between photography and narrative film. For all intents and purposes the individual images that render the visual language of a narrative film or a television show pass by. The average lenght of an image on television is three seconds, in feature film usually even less -  before it is substituted by the next one. So, the raw material of a television or film document always serves another purpose, that of the narrative or whatever flow of meaning it has been shortened - edited - into. This raw material never has value of its own. Lohner-Carlson's Active Images arose from the desire to actually see and linger with the individual images, to pay attention to them for their own sake, to allow them to unfold their own intrinsic beauty by letting them stand alone. In freeing the individual images from the context of a value judgment induced by edited film, it is their desire to attract new value to them - value without judgment. Television's prerogative is to commission shows that are normally based on preconceived ideas or themes which in turn need to exist within very confined contextual and technological rules that don't allow experiments, coincidents, or individual initiative. The craft of the television film maker is directed towards achieving a broadcast product as quickly as possible. It is like informational "fast food". In order to understand the nascence of their Active Images one needs to know that in television production it is unthinkable to record images without dialog or music for very much longer than ten seconds. Everything in film production is aimed at keeping this shooting ratio, as well call it, as low as possible, for the simple reason of saving time and money. Furthermore, no matter how much raw material is shot and minimized into the film product, it is destroyed immediately after broadcast since the broadcaster doesn't see any reason to store or save it. Thus, countless documents are lost forever. When Carlson and Lohner first met they immediately discovered - equally as film makers and film viewers - their mutual love for these lost images, these pictures that always pass. Creating waste on purpose is a kind of revenge on the system because it is their belief that the only way to affect change is from within the system itself. They go where everybody goes - or potentially can go. They don't go to war zones or to distant, uninhabited places. They visit places that are, in some way, familiar and accessible to everyone. It is in a way, a prerequisite for discovering the interesting within the obvious, uncovering delightful aspects in the ongoing rhythm of the everyday. Over the past 20 years Lohner and Carlson have collected more than 1000hours of video footage. The extracted Video Pictures or Active Images from this raw material  are the result of questioning, over the years, whether these images still resonate with us, whether they retain the ability to continuously fascinate us. In reliving these pictures we are looking for an ongoing emotion. And, we worry about them again and again. Lohner-Carlson's Active Images result from the simple desire to show something beautiful, something interesting and hopefully elegant, a picture worth looking at. Henninh Lohner is a German born American filmmaker and composer. His artistic output embraces diverse fields within the audio-visual arts. He is best known for film scores written as long-standing member of the Hollywood composers group founded by Hans Zimmer, as well as filmmaker/artist of the raw material media  art projects. Henning lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin, and teaches in Zurich. Van Carlson was born in Colorado, studied philosophy and film making and moved to Hollywood in 1978. As a video cinematographer he has received 10 Emmy Nominations, and 3 Emmy Awards for Photography. His work has taken him around the world, from Amazonia to the Virgin Islands. Van Carlson has worked with directors Steven  Spielberg, David Lynch, Mark Frost and many others; and for productions woth arte/ ZDF, PBS, Lifetime, History Cahnnel, HBO/Dreamworks, and A&E. link to John Cage Centennial colloquium taking place in Paris: <a href="http://cage-transatlantique.univ-paris3.fr/">http://cage-transatlantique.univ-paris3.fr/</a> </td></tr></table> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:06:47 +0200 VEY-YO'S HELLO HALO ECHO http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=64 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/64/img1570135290_glythumb64_upcomin2.png'></td><td valign='top'>Oliver Halsman Rosenberg July 11th - September 15th 2012 Opening : Wednesday, July 11th 2012, 7 - 10PM Om. This summer Brachfeld Gallery is pleased to present a site-specific installation and new work by nomadic artist Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, who has been traveling through India for the majority of the last 3 years. Also, during the month of August Rosenberg (as his alter ego: "In Praise of the Void"), will be curating the gallery as a pop-up healing space; Hosting lectures, workshops, hapenings, music events, sound-bowl meditations, screenings, and other surprises, facilitated by his community of fellow nomadic scholars and practitioners met during his Indian travels. Please check <a href="http://inpraiseofthevoid.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"> IN PRAISE OF THE VOID</a> for an evolving calendar of events. Rosenberg has been making works on paper (no larger than the bag he has been living out of) that reflect his inner and outer journey through the illuminating  and overwhelming landscapes of India. Themes, techniques, and materials often vary from one body of work to the next. From Sacred Geometry re-mixed to fake spiritual book covers...one location would inspire collages, another painting, and another photography. Trying to use local materials and inspired by folk techniques and motifs, the works shown may include any of the following: hand made dung washed paper, eucalyptus paper, rice paper, incense burns, henna, gouache paint, god eyes, and odds and ends from Indian spiritual  ephemera shops. From minimal tantric images, to explosive rainbow energy chaos, to deities emerging from patterns...all that is found in the ever-changing ancient culture and land of India is also reflected in the body and mind. Om Rosenberg comes from a long lineage of artists and artisans including Ludwig Moser the Bohemian glassmaker,  and Philippe Halsman the celebrity photographer. He studied Art and Art History at Skidmore College (NY) , and SACI ( Florence, Italy). His work has been exhibited in a variety of international galleries and institutions, including: The Drawing Center (NYC), The DESTE Foundation (Greece), Junsthalle Wien (Austria), Berkeley Art Museum (CA), and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts(CA). His work and writing has appeared in The New York Times, Parkett, The Japan Times, D.A.P.,Dwell, Planet, and various art web sites. </td></tr></table> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:55 +0200 GREETINGS http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=63 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/63/img1237472759_glythumb63_past2.png'></td><td valign='top'><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "> <pre style="margin: 0px; font-family: Futura; font-size: 9px; "> </pre> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; "> KYLE FIELD</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; "> NATHANIEL RUSSELL ALIA SHAWKAT Curated by Danielle Rubi</div> <div style="text-align: left; "> Greetings is a collection of new work from Californian artists, Kyle Field, Nathaniel Russell, and Alia Shawkat. The work will explore the literal and abstracted meanings of a greeting: the first words from an unknown being, a message from a foreign land, a signal from the afterlife, a connection of the individual with the infinite, a personal plea to the universe, or a presence emerging from the dark. Most simply, a greeting is the turning point between the unknown and the known. As well as having actual origins in a land far from Paris, France, these artists create work that originates from the far reaches of inner space and describes fantastic worlds, mutated beings, cosmic dreamscapes and metaphysical symbols. Greetings will meet you at the threshold of their other world and your own. Kyle Field, Nathaniel Russel, and Alia Shawkat will be bringing many pieces from their homeland, but will also be creating work for Greetings in France during an intensive creative residency in a medieval village in Burgundy during the weeks leading up to the opening. They endeavor to further explore the implications of the  concepts behind Greetings while exicting and creating as foreigners in an unfamiliar setting. During this time they will also realize the collaborative musical experience that will be performed at the opening event. Kyle Field has been performing and recording for years under the name Little Wings, Nathaniel Russell plays and records music under the name Birds Of America, Alia Shawkat has recently been performing jazz standards in New York and Los Angeles. Hand silk- screened posteres designed by Nathaniel Russell are for sale. Posters are signed by all 3 artists and will include a one-of-a-kind doodle made during their residency in the medieval village of France. All for just 45$/€35 a pop. The sales of these posters will help cover costs of their experience in France. Thank you/ Merci for your supporting the arts! Posters for sale here: <a href="http://nathanielrussell.bigcartel.com/product/greetings-show-poster-kyle-field-nathaniel-russell-alia-shawkat" target="_blank">posters</a></div> </div> <div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); "> <div style="margin: 0px; "> <div> <div style="text-align: left; "> and also available with a bonus here: <a href="http://greetingsatbrachfeld.tumblr.com/post/24401121971/nathaniel-russell-printed-a-zine-featuring-these " target="_blank">zine</a> Brachfeld Gallery has created a blog featuring the artists as they make art during the residency in the countryside for their show at the gallery on May 24th :<a href="http://t.co/h23HSQUL" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); " target="_blank">greetingsatbrachfeld.tumblr.</a><a href="http://t.co/h23HSQUL" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); " target="_blank"></a><a href="http://t.co/h23HSQUL" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); " target="_blank">com</a>  </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; "> </div> <div style="text-align: left; "> </div> <div style="text-align: left; "> </div> <div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; "> The music teaser for opening: Kyle Field and Leslie Feist play an acoustic duet of a Little Wings song <a href="http://vimeo.com/25051818" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; " target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/25051818</a> Brachfeld Gallery, 78 rue des Archives, Paris 3rd. May 24 - June 25 / Opeing reception May 24th, 6-10pm, with a live musical performance by the artists</div> </td></tr></table> Thu, 10 May 2012 15:41:14 +0200 OUTRECUIDANCE http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=62 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/62/img1083034030_glythumb62_pastoutrecuidance2.png'></td><td valign='top'>Du 4 au 19 mai 2012 Vernissage le vendredi 4 mai 2012 de 18h à 21h Brachfeld Gallery 78 rue des Archives 75003 Paris 01 46 36 15 00 info@brachfeld-paris.com Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 14h30 à 19h et sur rendez-vous Avec les artistes Erwan Frotin Bettina Samson Et les élèves Ines Abbadi, Romane Amice, Amélie Thoraval, Julien Bartissol, Paul Champagne, Natacha Clavaud, Claire Fermandes, Caroline Geoffroy, Loren Groisard,Astrid Horuckawa, Marie Lemaire, Océanne Thiebaud, Laura Libert, Hugo Lietmann, Carole Maillard, Célia Robert, Jessica Mendes Dias, Phonesavane Soulivong, Marjorie Munoz, Marine Lemetteil, Lorry Packo, Gaëlle Rivet, Rose Barberat, Marjorie Tirollois et Marie Voillot. Selon un commissariat de Mathieu Buard & Joël Riff Après les trois premières expériences d'Outre-Forêt, cette exposition inaugure un nouveau cycle, ciblant d'autres dépassements. Son premier opus propose une lecture de productions plastiques qui ne seraient pas à montrer, celles d'élèves de Terminale, en présence d'&oelig;uvres de deux artistes qui les ont conditionnés. En ce contexte ancré dans les enjeux de la transmission, il s'agira pour eux aussi d'invoquer certains modèles tout en affirmant l'énergie de leur émancipation. L'outrecuidance, c'est croire en soi outre mesure. Une fois libérée des connotations péjoratives qui associent ce terme à l'arrogance voire à la fatuité, son étymologie nous porte vers une confiance puissante permettant à celui qui en jouit, de surpasser ses acquis pour viser l'incroyable. Pour plus details: <a href="http:// http://outrecuidances.tumblr.com/">Outrecuidance</a> </td></tr></table> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:52:53 +0200 Cryptids http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=61 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/61/img1589095707_glythumb61_MerylwebS.png'></td><td valign='top'>Rassa Montaser et la galerie Brachfeld ont l'honneur d'annoncer Cryptids, la première exposition solo de l'artiste New Yorkaise Meryl Smith. Ses sculptures et collages dépeignent un bestiaire de créatures fantastiques. Le rendu méticuleux des détails anatomiques donne un air à la fois familier et étrange à ces animaux qui émergent de l'imagination tendrement sinistre de Smith.  Le titre de l'exposition, Cryptids, est un terme utilisé pour désigner une créature dont l'existence a été évoquée mais jamais scientifiquement prouvée. Les collages et sculptures de Smith se lisent comme des notes au bas de la pyramide de l'évolution. Au sein de la galerie se trouve une création taille réelle d'une de ses créatures mythologiques. Longbian (2012) est une tendre mais troublante bête au poil hirsute, à l'envergure de faon. Plutôt que de travailler à partir de pièce de taxidermie courantes, l'artiste assemble ses sculptures de manière obsessionnelle à partir de materiaux bruts. Les sculptures de Smith sont constituées de petits bouts de tissu, de baguettes et de treillis métalliques afin de former des créatures étranges et réalistes.  Dans ses collages, les animaux de Smith sont placés dans des paysages morcelés, faisant référence aux illustrations Audubon. Né d'un processus de travail intensif, chaque collage est composé de minuscules fragments de papier. Smith réduit les images trouvées aux plus petits des élements de couleur, ainsi elle peint avec du papier. Les résultats sont surréels et spectaculaires: des créatures poilus et tentaculaires avec des cous élancés flânent dans les plaines, des canins aux jambes d'insectes et visages rugueux, des mammifères aux corps allongés et aux membres grêles errent sur une toundra glaciale.  Meryl Smith a beaucoup collaboré avec des artsites et réalisateurs parmi les plus respectés, réalisant des installations, des décors, des marionnettes, et des costumes. Plus récemment, elle a crée les énormes rongeurs pour le film court I'm Here de Spike Jonze. Elle a également conçu une vitrine élaborée pour la boutique Opening Ceremony.  Le photographe Todd Selby s'est invité chez elle afin de capturer la chaleureuse arche de Noé rococo dans son appartement New Yorkais. Smith a également produit un nombre conséquent de costumes absolument grotesques, comme son opus 2006, Timoty Treadwell inside of the bear that Ate Him et Me giving birth to myself en 2008.  C'est la première exposition de l'artiste à Paris, Brachfeld gallery succède ainsi à la Jonathan Levine Gallery et Priska C. Juschka Fine Art à New York. ENGLISH VERSION  Rassa Montaser and Brachfeld Gallery are proud to announce Cryptids, The first European solo show by New York based artist Meryl Smith. Smith's sculptures and collages depict a modern bestiary of fantastic creatures rendered in meticulous anatomical detail. Beasts, at once familiar and uncanny, spring forth from Smith's sweetly sinister imagination and are painstakingly assembled.  The exhibition title, Cryptids, is a term for a creature whose existence has been suggested but never scientifically proven. Smith's collages and sculptures read like footnotes and marginalia on the classification tables of the natural kingdom. Standing within the gallery is a full-scale realization of one such mythological beast. Longbian (2012) is a gentle but unsettling creature with soft shaggy brown fur and fawn-like stature. Rather than work from commercial taxidermy forms, the artist obsessively assembles her sculptures from raw materials. Smith's sculptures incorporate small fabric remnants, chopsticks, and wire mesh to create uncanny, life-like creatures.  In the collage, the animals of smith's menagerie stand in partial landscapes, referencing Audubon illustrations. Born of a labor-intensive process, each collage concists of enumerable miniscule paper fragments. Smith reduces the found images to the tiniest elements of color and line, effectively painting with paper. The result are surreal and spectacular: tentacled furry creatures with swooping necks wander a grassy plain, canines with hitched insect like legs scale a rock face, furry mammals with elongated bodies and spindly limbs linger on icy tundra.  Meryl Smith has collaborated extensively with some of the most respected artists and filmmakers of our time, producing installations, sets, puppets and costumes. Most recently, she crafted the enormous rodents in Spike Jonze's short, I'm Here, and designed an elaborate window display for auteur fashion store Opening ceremony. In addition, she partnered with photographer Todd Selby to capture the warm rococo Noah's Ark of her New York apartment. Smith has also produced a number of hilariously gruesome costumes, like her 2006 opus, Timothy Treadwell inside of the bear that ate him and 2008's Me giving birth to myself. This is the artist's first exhibition in Paris, following shows at Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, and Priska C. Juska Fina Art, New York.  Opening 22th March. From 6 to 9pm Show until the 3rd of May.  </td></tr></table> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:04:59 +0100 unRELATED http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=60 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/60/img210804096_glythumb60_Spicweb.png'></td><td valign='top'>unRELATED From January 5th to February 16th 2012 Opening Thursday January 5, 6 to 9 pm      In this New Year, Brachfeld gallery invites all the artists who have exposed since the opening of the gallery to display their new work.   Those Invited: Lisa PACLET, Todd COLE, Mary PING, Randall BACHNER, Johan SANDBERG, SANG BLEU, DoPe édition, Graham TABOR & Miguel VILLALOBOS, Katerina JEBB, NUNU Chocolates, Patricia SCHWOERER, ZERO+ Maria CORNEJO,     Rikke RUHWALD, SANDBERG&TIMONEN, Project n°8, Ada BLIGAARD SOBY   A mix of art and objects including the artist Cédric Rivrain’s first book, edited by DoPe Edition, and the new T-shirt model by SANDBERG & TiMONEN; with the effigy of a new  « Fashion Hero », which profits will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières.   </td></tr></table> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:48:57 +0100 New Landscapes http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=59 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/59/img364043617_glythumb59_landscapesmall.png'></td><td valign='top'>Photographer Adrian gaut's latest body of work, new landscapes, explores his long standing fascination with pattern based pictorial representation. He traces his inspiration to the tradition of "all-over" pictures (a term coined by the seminal critic Clement Greenberg) pioneered by the abstract expressionist painters of the 1950's such as jackson pollock and janet Sobel.  Specifically avoiding overbearing compositional devices, the photographs, rather arrempt to subvert the perception of scale and obfuscate the subject, prompting a re-evaluation of the landscape on it's own terms.  Entropy, the inevitable degradation of higher order into a state of disorder, is a theme that underlies all of the works in the exhibition. The three photographs included from the series Wave action, are the most pure expression of entropy at work. We see the action of a breaking wave creating a perfect randomness, an orderly pulse of energy broken into innumerable smaller pulses interacting with each other in unpredictable, imperfect ways.  It is precisely this randomness that appeals to Gaut, the photographs a witness and their creator merely an observer.  To a lesser degree, the same impulse is at work in the two photographs from the large landscape series, although the focus here is more predominately one of scale. drawing from the work Mendelbrot and his work with fractal geometry, the underlying architecture of the natural world, which could be loosely defined in terms of scale: the smallest element echoing that of the largest. These photographs, also attempt to obscure the viewers perception of scale. Representing largely featureless landscapes, one is at a loss to define with any certainty exactly how much is being seen. Are we viewing a small valley or a vast expanse of desert? The fact that we don't know is exactly the point. Here again, there is a debt to the work of Pollock, whose work was highly fractal.  The final pieces in the exhibition, two works from the series Manufactured landscapes, are the least traditional landscaoes included, yet they too are an investigation into entropy and randomness, inescapable despite our intentions otherwise.  Taken as a whole, the exhibition attempts to chart a new direction in landscape photography, avoiding the clichés of majestic views and sublime sunsets, instead focusing on the underlying forces at work througout the natural world. Finding beauty in the marginalized landscape, Gaut has arrived at a truly unique interpretation of landscape, and our role within those landscapes. </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:20:05 +0100 Satellite http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=58 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/58/img1868583929_glythumb58_SmallGlassHill.png'></td><td valign='top'>Markus Bergström and Joe Nunn of Glass Hill have an approach that is founded on a general level of discomfort and en ever present uncertainty. A discomfort that comes from scales, fields and genres, both subscribed and prescibed. And an uncertainty that comes from having two heads and twice as many complexes. Their work to date has included an neo classicist mug and pine wood requiring two weeks of finishing. They have also designed furniture for a 400$ a night In on an island called Fogo and will one day turn an abandonned british pub into a local hero. Their work is often intentionally unfashionable in its approach and often their project's scope far exceed the clients brief.  For Brachfeld gallery, Glass Hill approached the project with a plurality of intent. For one, it is to be a show of new Glass Hill work, but it is also to act as an exercise in something they claim to enjoy-designing to be of service. In this case it is designed to be of service to the photography of Adrian Gaut. The show will be split in two parts: an initial "content-less" stage for FIAC that will contain nothing but the exhibition design itself, and then for Paris photo the work will finally arrive.  Tha glass Hill installation will occupy an intermediate scale between furniture and full scale architecture, a realm they explore at every opportunity. It is not much of a stretch of logic to expand the principles of furniture construction to that of a small building and likewise an interior space is itself built, but from an opposing direction. In this instance the structure "cleans" the space of all cavity and crevice, providing a pure and formless envelope. Meanwhile the gallery itself holds within a structure, built with a joiner logic, and expressly to be hidden, or at least take a passenger seat, from the main event.  A collection of seating objects will be scattered and huddled within the curved wall. In the first stage they will be conspiscious in their presence, in the second useful in their function. These studio pieces are for sale and are an extension of Glass Hill's previous works on form, surface and materiality. </td></tr></table> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:52:44 +0200 Screening & Live concert/ Fuck Forever http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=57 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/57/img446544365_glythumb57_InvitationFF.png'></td><td valign='top'>Brachfeld Gallery is pleased to invite you to the screening of the pilot for the movie "Fuck Forever" , an upcoming documentary by Danish artist, Ada Bligaard Soby, followed by a guitar performance by two of the film's characters Phil harnik & Oliver Scott-Tomney.  Over the past two years Ada Bligaard Soby has followed young british fans of musician Pete Doherty. Her camera has fimed these teenagers throughout England, at home, at work, in school, attending Doherty gigs etc... She has found determination, willpower and a belief in a life with art and expression- inspired by and mirrored throug the fascination and inspiration of Peter Doherty- a rock'n'roll romantic and poet.  With this event, Ada Bligaard Soby is adding yet another layer to her multidimensional work already hanging in the gallery since the beginning of July. The first dimension was photo, the second was created through cinema, the third was embroideries, and the fourth is flesh and blood - characters, seen in the movie, stitched on the photographs, are now performing live in the gallery.  This event essentially addresses the layers of perception. As we move between the four different levels of artistic language (photography, embroidery, cinema and live music) we cross the boundaries between fan and fantasy, of viewer and performer.  Friday September 23th @ Brachfeld Gallery Screening at 7 pm followed by guitar performance by phil and Oliver (Pete Doherty fans from Brighton, England) 78 rue des Archives, Paris 3ème</td></tr></table> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:18:22 +0200 Opening on 1rst of July, at 7pm http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=56 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/56/img695607172_glythumb56_audreysmall.png'></td><td valign='top'>Brachfeld Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of Ada Bligaard Søby, a young artist and filmmaker living in Copenhagen.  As a twenty years old, Ada moved herself to new york where she met many people who became an inspiring source to her work. She has since documented the lives of these American friends through her photography and films.  While editing her latest two films, she stumbled upon photographs taken on that first trip to New York and parallel to her editing process, began to embroider her old photographs with images from these new stories. Stuggling to convey her new film characters, she began stitching scenes from their lives on top of these original memories, mirroring the editing process and its progress.  Ada's portraits are multi-dimensional. the first portraits are photographic, meaning two dimensional and still. The second portraits are created through film, which is another two dimensional process yet moving. The third process of portraiture is through embroidery, which three dimensionally transcends the others, and stitches them into a final one portrait.  Like Odysseus'penelope, trying to stay connected and loyal to herself and her freinds, Ada weaves stories and stitches her message of truth into her own work.  Through her films, photographs, and embroidery, she reveals a depth to the characters in her life, while simultaneously, creating a raw portrait of her generation. </td></tr></table> Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:23:39 +0200 Days of rage http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=51 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/51/img1540512935_glythumb51_lisasmall2.png'></td><td valign='top'>Events: Jeudi 19 mai-20h: Performance musique/vidéo. Dans le cadre des Journées Nomades (<a href="http://mairie03.paris.fr/mairie03/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?document_id=14456&portlet_id=1433">http://mairie03.paris.fr/</a>) Samedi 21 mai- 15h: Atelier de création de vidéo/art (Gratuit). Inscriptions et informations: maria@brachfeld-paris.com Vernissage le 6 mai 2011 - 19h-22h La galerie Brachfeld est heureuse de présenter : Lisa Paclet Depuis ces derniers mois le mot révolution se trouve sur toutes les lèvres. Le monde est en train de vivre une vague de mouvements révolutionnaires qui alimentent les journaux télévisés, et qui éveillent cette lueur d’espoir en un monde différent, osons même dire meilleur. On ne peut être qu’admiratif de la détermination et de la dignité des peuples menant ces révoltes; de la même façon que les images de violence et de chaos nous interpellent en venant nous rencontrer dans notre vie quotidienne. Ce sont bien ces révoltes et les images qu’elles véhiculent qui constituent le coeur du travail, composé autour de l’image en mouvement (vidéo), que Lisa Paclet exposera à la Galerie Brachfeld du 6 au 30 Mai 2011. En effet, l’artiste s’est intéressée aux révolutions qui ont actuellement lieu en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen Orient. Son propos étant d’illustrer la révolution, dans les images et dans leur traitement. Lisa Paclet exposera donc quatre films basés sur le found footage des révoltes. Dont en modifiant le codage de leur fichier Quicktime ou de leur séquence d’images (une pratique appelé data-bending) elle pourra créer des films corrompus, déformés, qui vont fluctuer entre image abstraite et image reconnaissable. Son objectif étant celui de tenter d’illustrer la révolution: la révolution dans les sociétés , et la révolution dans la matière première d’un réalisateur: l’image en mouvement. Paroles de l’artiste: La Revolution Sociale: Personnellement j’ai jamais vécu en première personne une vraie révolution ou la guerre, ni l’angoisse et le désespoir, (mais aussi l’espoir et la détermination) qui les accompagnent. Néanmoins, depuis plusieurs années je m’intéresse tous les jours aux événements en Afghanistan, Iraq, Israël, Palestine, Liban, Iran, et dernièrement à toute la série de révoltes qui constituent “L’Arab Spring”. Je crois que cet Intérêt est né au moment où j’ai trouvée il y a 5 ans sur le net des sources d’information alternatives aux TG et Journaux « mainstream », et j’ai pu voir et entendre à travers la voix de journalistes comme Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman ou Jeremy Scahill, des points de vue qui décrivent tous ces événements pas seulement en terme de causalités ou sur le plan de l’intérêt géopolitique, mais surtout à travers les voix de ses propres protagonistes. Depuis Septembre je suis en train de travailler sur un film qui traite du PTSD dans une famille en Afghanistan, et souvent je réfléchis au fait que si je n’était pas une réalisatrice, j’aurais peut être pu devenir un reporter de guerre.) La Revolution de la Matière: Avec cette façon de traiter la matière filmique (le data bending) je voudrais obtenir des résultats que je ne peux pas prévoir, qui vont m’échapper et me surprendre. J’ai toujours aimé le coté imprévisible qu’un travail sur la matière entraine. Dans mon métier, d’abord d’animatrice et en suite de réalisatrice, une énorme partie des efforts sont focalisés sur la maitrise et le contrôle de sa technique et de son sujet. Cela donne énormément de satisfaction; mais, confrontée à la possibilité de créer quelque chose de nouveau pour la galerie Brachfeld , je me suis, tout de suite, penchée vers une technique qui, de par sa propre nature , va m’échapper, en partie du moins. En effet, quelque part, cette technique va faire sa propre révolution, contre moi, qui la met en &oelig;uvre. Et cette idée me plait beaucoup. Les Techniques: Le Found Footage: Les quatre films seront composés chacun d’un montage de “fond footage”. Deux vont traiter des révolution “réussites”: - Tunisia: images des foules jubilatoires à Tunis le jour de la résignation du président Zine El Albine Ben Ali. - Egypte: images des foules jubilatoires à Tahrir Square, Cairo le jour de la démission du président Mubarak. Un va traiter d’un révolution qui dégénère en guerre civile - Libya: images des manifestants à Benghazi puis des batailles entre les forces de Muammar Gaddafi et les les forces rebelles. Le dernier film sera une vision d’ensemble de toutes les autres manifestations et incidents violents qui se sont produits (et qui sont en train de se produire jour après jour) en Jordanie, Yemen, Syria, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Arabie Saudite , Oman, Djibouti... Le Data Bending/ La Distorsion des Données: Ce sont un ensemble de pratiques qui consistent à modifier à la source le code des fichiers (son et images) et qui donnent des résultats qu’on ne maitrise pas intégralement. Ce procédé donne souvent lieu à des images partiellement reconnaissables, difformes, aux couleurs peu naturelles. Je trouve cette technique adaptée à l’idée de révolution; elle consiste en effet à changer la nature même de la matière de travail (le film digital) pour donner naissance a des films qui on des éléments de leur ficher d’origine mais qui sont visuellement complètement autre chose. Brachfeld Gallery 78 rue des Archives 75003 Paris Mar-Ven 14h30-19h00 Ou sur rendez-vous 01 73 54 15 00/01 www.brachfeld-gallery.com PRESS: <a href="http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=3455">http://www.openingceremony.us</a> <a href="http://www.pariscitymag.com/projet/516">http://www.pariscitymag.com/projet/516</a> </td></tr></table> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:24:32 +0200 nunu chocolates http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=45 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/45/img864704056_glythumb45_nunuhome.png'></td><td valign='top'>NUNU CHOCOLATES Du 12 au 26 Avril 2011 13, 16, 20 et 23 avril à 15h : Workshops - Ateliers de création de chocolat dirigés par Nunu Chocolates - Animation bilingue - 15 € / personne 14, 21 et 22 avril à 19h30 : Wine Pairing - Dégustation vin chocolat (4 vins et 4 chocolats), en association avec la Cave du Barav et Nunu Chocolates - Animation bilingue - 20 € / personne Contact maria@brachfeld-paris.com En Avril à Paris Nunu Chocolates, une chocolaterie artisanale basée à Brooklyn, New York, sera l’invitée très spéciale de la galerie Brachfeld en ce mois d’Avril, où une boutique éphémère donnant la place belle au chocolat sera installée du 12 au 26. En effet, le duo mari et femme formé par Andy Larid et Justine Pringle, accompagné par Dave Gould, investira l’espace du 78 rue des Archives (75003 Paris) pour fabriquer des caramels et truffes sur place, qui seront, ainsi que de nombreux autres produits liés au chocolat, vendus directement à la galerie. Désormais installés à Brooklyn, Justine et Andy entreprirent l’aventure Nunu Chocolates mus par la croyance que le monde est meilleur quand le chocolat est présent. Le mot «!Nunu!» est un surnom affectueux que l’on donne aux enfants en Afrique, où Justine a grandi. Sa mère l’appelait «!Nunu!» quand elle était petite, et il se trouve que ce même mot est utilisé comme un terme affectueux dans plusieurs pays et cultures. Les chocolats sont faits à partir de fèves de cacao dérivées d’une hybridation entre Trinitario et Criollo provenant d’une ferme familiale promouvant le développement durable en Colombie. Ainsi, Justine et Andy sont constamment à la recherche des meilleurs ingrédients pour leurs chocolats artisanaux, ce qui rend chaque chocolat unique et complètement naturel. Paris est pour eux l’opportunité d’interagir avec de nouveaux publics et ingrédients, et surtout d’en apprendre davantage sur la plus belle ville gastronomique au monde! nunu chocolates April 12-26 April in Paris! Nunu Chocolates, an artisinal chocolate shop from Brooklyn, New York, becomes a living, breathing chocolate- making exhibit at the Brachfeld Gallery in Paris, April 12-26 (78 Rue des Archives). Husband-and-wife team Andy Laird and Justine Pringle, along with co-chocolatier Dave Gould, will be making caramels and truffles on site and the finished products will go right onto the shelf of the gallery's shop. Based now in Brooklyn, Justine and Andy started Nunu Chocolates with the belief that the world is a better place when chocolate is involved. The term 'Nunu' is an affectionate nickname for little kids in Africa where Justine spent her childhood. Her mother called her "Nunu" while growing up and, as it turns out, it’s used as a term of endearment in many different countries and cultures. The chocolates are made using a single origin Cocoa bean derived from a Trintario and Criollo hybrid from a sustainable and family run farm in eastern Colombia. Justine and Andy seek out the finest ingredients for the handmade truffles and caramels, making Nunu Chocolates a totally natural and individually handmade treat. Paris is an incredible opportunity to interact with a new set of local ingredients and learn from the best food city in the world!   </td></tr></table> Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:13:42 +0200 Mes sept portraits capitaux - StÃ©phanie Cohen Chaptal http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=42 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/42/img1214472970_glythumb42_scohensmall.png'></td><td valign='top'> Du 19 mars au 9 avril La galerie Brachfeld est fière de présenter : Mes sept portraits capitaux  Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal Depuis l’antiquité le portrait a occupé une place centrale et ambiguë dans la hiérarchie des genres de l’histoire de l’art. De par son sujet ; l’homme créature à l’image divine capturé dans un instant révélateur de son histoire, le portrait devrait se hisser haut parmi les genres prestigieux. Néanmoins, il a souvent été blâmé à cause de sa part de vanité, d’égocentrisme...de profane. Ainsi, les portraits auront évolué dans l’écriture de l’histoire entre le divin et le païen. Et c’est leur part de pêché (sans le pêché) que Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal nous invite à savourer avec son &oelig;uvre, Mes Sept Portraits Capitaux. A l’occasion de la sortie du livre « Ma galerie de portraits » (Manuella Editions) la galerie Brachfeld a l’immense plaisir d’accueillir le travail de Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal. Une exposition organisée autour d’une sélection de sept portraits en mots, ceux avec lesquels elle partage un lien privilégié, parmi la centaine réalisée par cette artiste. On y rencontre des personnalités du monde des arts, de la politique, du cinéma, du théâtre, de la musique et de la mode. Tous ces portraits ayant été réalisés à partir de commandes émanant soit de magazines (Vogue, Visionaire, etc.), soit de maisons de disques et de couture (Balenciaga et Yves Saint Laurent notamment), soit de particuliers. Dans la démarche de cet écrivain, le spectateur ne manquera pas d’être interpelé par la réanimation des liens mythiques entre l’artiste et le commanditaire, entre le créateur et son sujet. Ainsi, Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal nous offre une &oelig;uvre qui renoue directement avec la tradition du portrait peint, du portrait frontal où le sujet se trouve exposé en majesté, et son âme vient investir la plume de cette artiste pour qui les mots sont les outils de prédilection pour imprimer non seulement le caractère d’une personnalité, mais un instant, un lieu, une foule, une odeur, une chanson et tant encore. STÉPHANIE COHEN CHAPTAL est née en 1967. Elle est l’auteur de pièces de théâtre (dont Le Mobil-Home, 1990), d’un livret d’opéra (L’Empio punito, Opéra de Leipzig, 2003), d’un roman (Camille Judith Claire, Denoël, 1998) et d’un recueil de poèmes (Poèmes futiles, Dangin/ Steidl, 2005). Son roman, Le Roman nu, est en cours de publication. En 2006, elle a exposé ses portraits en mots à la Galerie Haunch of Venison à Londres. Vernissage le 19 mars 19h-22h Press : Nathalie Ours On consulting 01 73 54 19 51 divna@onconsulting.fr Brachfeld Gallery  78 rue des Archives  75003 Paris  Ouvert: Mar-Ven 14h30 -19h ou sur rendez-vous -------------------------- The Brachfeld Gallery is proud to present : My seven deadly portraits  Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal Art history has always known portraits. This kind of expression representing men, as a divine creation, creature in the image of God, should have been seen as one of the holiest and more dignified types of artistic production. Nevertheless, given the fact that portraits do hold a certain proportion of vanity and self-absorption they have always been criticized. Their part of profanity has always gotten in the way of their consecration. Thus, the evolution of portraits in art history will always be in between the holy and the heathen. And it is their sinful aspect (without the sin) that Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal invites us to admire with her latest work, her seven deadly portraits. To accompany the launching of her book « Ma galerie de portraits » (Manuella Editions) the Brachfeld Gallery has the great pleasure to welcome Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal’s work. A show surrounding a selection of seven word portraits, those that share a special bond with the artist. Where we can fin personalities of different worlds such as, arts, politics, movies, theater, music and fashion. All of the portraits are the fruit of commissions coming from magazines (Vogues, Visionaire, etc.), record labels, fashion brands (Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent), or individuals. Within the writer’s approach, the beholder will be attracted by the reanimation of the mythical bonds between the artist and the commissioner, the creator and his subject. Thus, Stéphanie Cohen Chaptal, proposes a work that revives the tradition of painted frontal portraits, where the subject is exposed in majesty. And his soul overtakes the writing hand of this artist for whom words are the tools to print not only the nature of a personality, but also an instant, a place, a crowd, a smell, a song and yet so much more. STÉPHANIE COHEN CHAPTAL was born in 1967. She is the author of several theater plays (such as, Le Mobil-Home, 1990), of an opera libretto(L’Empio punito, Leipzig Opera, 2003), of a novel (Camille Judith Claire, Denoël, 1998) and of a poetry collection (Poèmes futiles, Dangin/ Steidl, 2005). Her latest novel, Le Roman nu (The Naked Novel), is about to be published. In 2006, she exposed her word portraits at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London.   Opening March 19th 19h-22h  Press : Nathalie Ours On consulting 01 73 54 19 51 divna@onconsulting.fr Brachfeld Gallery  78 rue des Archives  Open: Tue-Fri 14h30 - 19h  Or by appointment </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:15:40 +0100 XXX â€“ A show about politics, love, L.A., and Vienna. http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=41 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/41/img1182019554_glythumb41_xxx.png'></td><td valign='top'> Felix Burrichter and Sarah Ortmeyer have produced a publication entitledXXX BURRICHTER ORTMEYER. The project presents and expands upon their research about politics, love, L.A., and Vienna, touching upon the life and work of Rudolph and Pauline Schindler, Rudi Gernreich, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tookie Williams, Phoebe Price, Immanuel Kant, Marilyn Monroe, and the fast food chain Wienerschnitzel. The book will be available for sale and is accompanied by an installation by artist and shoe designer Leonard Kahlcke, who created three special handmade shoes that are inspired by the inextricable links between the cities Vienna and L.A. XXX BURRICHTER ORTMEYER was previously shown at the MAK Center in Los Angeles, California. Opening january 28th 19h-22h  Press : Nathalie Ours On consulting 01 73 54 19 51  divna@onconsulting.fr   Felix Burrichter The German architect became an editor once he moved to New York and founded Pin-Up magazine in which he is not only the editor but also the art director. Burrichter’s creative work is characterized by it’s research of an interaction between architecture, design and contemporary art. In this way, the creator offers the public the possibility to observe a new aspect of some concepts and ideas that are too often fixed in the history of artistic creation.  In 2010 Felix Burrichter had the opportunity to show some of his work at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Now in 2011 he returns to this city along with his longtime friend and collaborator Sarah Ortmeyer to present at the Brachfeld Gallery their work: XXX Burrichter Ortmeyer (Jan 28th-Feb 18th). Sarah Ortmeyer Sarah Ortmeyer has succeeded to create a new form of contemporary art. The work of this German artist has a directive line: to uproot the characters and situation of their usual historical context to recreate a vision of the past exposed in an unusual universe that leads the viewer to confront himself with what he believed to know about history and it’s construction. Thus, the associations presented in Ortmeyer’s films, objects and installations are new tools that can allow us to awake the part of extraordinary hidden in what the writing of history has often labeled as ordinary. </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:04:05 +0100 NOT A STILL FRAME (HYBRID) by Sandro Kopp http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=39 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/39/img423534633_glythumb39_sandrokopp.png'></td><td valign='top'> Brachfeld Gallery is proud to present Not a still frame (hybrid), an exhibition of paintings by Sandro Kopp, for the first time in Paris. Not a still Frame (hybrid) is a series of portraits executed in front of the computer during skype-video-conversations with friends and family. The work is an expression of the artists long exploration into balancing the presence captured in live portraiture sittings versus portraits painted from a photograph. It is also an "Offering" to human engagement; the continued existence of warmth and connection within new technologies of communication. "In exploring these questions - in trying to distill the essence of the difference between these modes of painting - I had the idea of paintings made during video-web-chats: a hybrid of a painting done from life and a painting done from a photograph stripping the elements of three-dimensionality and presence away, putting a lens (of the webcam) between me and my sitter - but maintaining the elements of time passing and conversation: of engagement." 32-year-old Sandro Kopp is half-German, half-New Zealander. He lives in the far north of Scotland. He started drawing and painting at a very young age and his art has been exhibited since his childhood. He has lived in many places, including Paris, and still spends much of his life travelling with a mobile studio. His work was selected for the exhibition “Junge Kunst 69”  at Heidelberger Kunstverein as well as “REAL Symposium für figurative Kunst” in 2007 and 2009. He exhibits regularly with Krauts Gallery in Germany. He showed at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in the BP Portrait Awards exhibition, as well as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In New Zealand, he has shown at a number of galleries including the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. He was highly commended in the biennial New Zealand Portrait Awards in 2004. His piece 'The New Me' - a work comprising 28 self portraits executed each consecutive day for a month -  was shown at HP Garcia Gallery in New York, May/June 2008 in the exhibition “Present”. <div> October 22 - November 12, 2010 Opening Friday, October 22nd 7- 10pm </div>   www.sandrokopp.com www.brachfeldgallery.blogspot.com Press contact : ON Consulting / Nathalie Ours divna@onconsulting.fr/ +33 1 73 54 19 51   </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:18 +0100 HIC & NUNC / Miguel Villalobos and Graham Tabor http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=38 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/38/img112472025_glythumb38_tabbor.png'></td><td valign='top'>Tabor and Villalobos have constructed within the gallery a semblance of preservation. A fake museum filled with symbols of Man’s conflicted relation to nature; The desire to preserve in conflict with our need to destroy. Prolific and in demand for their creative and commercial works separately, both artists are insatiable with their output and intensely personal in their connections to their work. What is especially striking in their collaboration is the purity of their creative process. Separately but especially together, there is an undeniably joyful and playful approach to their artisanal process, the creation of beauty, and to the rendering of potentially complex ideas. Hic et Nunc is a pure creative act, and we are pleased to share it with you. / GRAHAM TABOR /  New York-based designer Graham Tabor has served as senior designer at Helmut Lang and as knitwear designer at Karl Lagerfeld. After leaving Helmut Lang, Graham founded a New York based design and consulting studio working with clients such as Thakoon, Camilla Staerk, Rachel Roy, STOLL and others. Alongside Melanie Ward, Graham served as creative consultant for TSE Cashmere, where he and Melanie were responsible for design concepts and creative direction for the F/W 2009 TSE Cashmere 20th anniversary collection. Graham and Melanie also recently showed Blouson Noir, a women’s ready to wear capslue collection.  From 2006-2010 Graham served as Fashion Director for the ground breaking FLY DVD Magazine, a film format Art and Fashion biannual, which has been exhibited at MOMA, the Deutsche Guggenheim and many others. Graham regularly creates fashion editorials for magazines including, Qvest, Wad, Tetu, Metal, Paper Shop and Paper Planes.  Graham was one of ten designers invited to show at the prestigious 2008 Festival International De Mode d’Hyeres in France. Graham was invited to present the Hyeres collection during the S/S 09 Men’s shows in Paris in an installation at the Ter et Bantine Gallery in collaboration with Miguel Villalobos and sculptor Kristin Barron.  / MIGUEL VILLALOBOS /  A photographer and illustrator working in film, fashion and art, Villalobos has worked as visual consultant and documentary photographer for the film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, and as art director for Laurie Anderson’s video “Life on a String”.  Miguel’s photography has been included in group shows in Berlin, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela and in Paris at the Maison Martin Margiela head quarters. He is a regular contributor to Jalouse, Tetu, Butt Magazine, Metal, V and Vman Magazines. His work has also been published in Purple Fashion, Qvest, Interview, Le Monde, Fantastic Man, Vogue Hommes International, Fake Magazine, Vanidad, Blend Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine and BlackBook.  Miguel was awarded first prize in the 2009 New to the Eye International Competition for Fashion Photography, which took place in Berlin. After a gallery show in Berlin, Villalobos’ work travelled to Zurich and Vienna to be exhibited in conjunction with the award.  In 2009, Miguel was also invited by designer Zaldy to collaborate with him on the tour costumes for Michael Jackson’s “This is It” tour and Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour.   </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:36:07 +0100 Katerina Jebb - In The Realm of Senses http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=37 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/37/img744635760_glythumb37_katerina.png'></td><td valign='top'> Katerina Jebb présente un nouveau travail: une installation de plantes carnivores mettant en scène les forces visibles et invisibles de l’exsudation. Dans l’environnement de la galerie, l’artiste construit un microcosme mais ce qui apparaît de prime abord comme un tableau vivant est en réalité un système en perpétuel mouvement où l’immobilité apparente des plantes, l’innocence et la beauté révèlent les leitmotivs de la catharsis, de la séduction, de la consommation, de la mort et de la régénération. Le phénomène naturel singulier, immobile et silencieux des plantes carnivores est le sujet de cette exploration. Six espèces de plantes insectivores apparaissent dans des formes et des volumes variés. Ces sujets se donnent en représentation afin de séduire leurs proies et d’assurer ainsi leur survie. Leur aspect étrange, leur apparence décorative, dissimulent leur vraie nature : une structure passive agressive qui émet de l’énergie et resplendit dans son environnement. " Ce qui me frappe le plus est l’indépendance totale et l’autorité de ces plantes. En dépit de leur dénuement extérieur, elles sont intuitives, pleines de ressources et réussissent à évoluer dans l’adversité. Derrière le sujet visible, dans l’espace inconscient des présences sensibles et silencieuses, il y a une végétation infinie, une charge métaphysique ininterrompue. J’ai naïvement pensé pouvoir me tenir à distance de ces plantes, réussir à les objectiver et à exploiter leurs propriétés exotiques, mais la fascination m’a rapidement entraînée dans un rapport d’alchimie avec mon sujet. " Dans l'espace d’exposition Tal Isaac Hadad présente la sculpture sonore Feedback Chrysalide. Feedback Chrysalide est une sculpture active qui produit un environnement sonore en temps réel, en utilisant les propriétés acoustiques créés par un "feedback" . Le "feedback" se crée entre un microphone et un haut-parleur. Un signal sonore est produit et augmente progressivement jusqu'à ce que sa limite soit atteinte. Cette &oelig;uvre sonore synthétise ces fréquences de dysfonctionnement et prend la forme d’un cocoon artificiel suspendu. Elle créé une mécanique distillant des harmonies et des bourdonnements électriques dans un hymne aléatoire à la beauté carnivore. Carnivore 31 est un parfum à l'esprit étrange et enivrant qui se répend dans une atmosphère invraisemblabe. Il a été créé par Annick Menardo en collaboration avec Dawn Goldworm “12.29”. -------------------------------------------- New work by Katerina Jebb, which addresses the visible and invisible forces of exudation through a mediumistic installation of carnivorous plants. Within the confines of the gallery environment she constructs a living world where apparent stasis of the plants, presented as a decorative tableau vivant, is actually a system in perpetual motion. Its seeming innocence and beauty a motif of catharsis, seduction, consumption, death, regeneration. The still and silent, hauntingly singular natural phenomena of the carnivorous plant is the subject of this exploration. Six species of insectivorous plants appear in varying forms and volumes. These living subjects give forth a spectacle, primarily for their own advantage and survival, seducing their prey in various and complex ways. The seemingly strange and decorative appearance of the plant belies its true nature, one that radiates energy and is resplendent in its passive aggressive structure. “Perhaps what I find particularly compelling is their lack of need, their authority. Despite the apparent abandon of their situation they are intuitive and resourceful, adversity actually enabling them to continue and evolve. Lying beneath the subject matter, touching on the subconscious, entering the spaces of these silent and sentient presences, there is a perpetual unfolding, a metaphysical charge. I innocently presumed that I would be able to objectify them, exploit their exotic properties, but it is impossible to deny my involvement, I am in a sense held captive." Within the exhibition space Tal Isaac Hadad presents the sculptural sound piece "Feedback Chrysalide ". Feedback Chrysalide is an active sculpture which produces a sound environment in real time, using physical acoustic phenomena of Feedback. Feedback is created between a microphone and a speaker. A sound signal is produced and progressively increases until the limit is reached. Here the sound piece synthesizes this phenomenon associating the dysfunctional frequency with mechanical noise of an electronic suspended object / cocoon, distilling harmonies, and humming frequencies in a random hymn to carnivorous beauty. A strange inexplicable odor pervading an improbable atmosphere, Carnivore 31, is an imaginary perfume by Annick Menardo, “12.29”, in collaboration with Dawn Goldworm. --------------------- KATERINA JEBB Anglaise née en 1962 Vit et travaille à Paris Artiste autodidacte dont la pratique s'étend à plusieurs mediums et qui révèle aussi bien l'homme que les objets.La technique utilisée - scanners, photocopieuses, équipements photographiques sommaires - provoque une esthétique étrange où les images semblent suspendues et figées dans une réalité autre. Lorsqu'elle compose des images sur le corps humain, Katerina Jebb les fractionne et les recompose afin d'approfondir ses réflexions sur les représentations, le genre et l'identité. Les objets sont soumis à la même approche clinique, paralysés par cette esthétique froide de la machine. La puissance de ses images assure à Katerina Jebb une place à part dans le paysage artistique. Son oeuvre a été exposée dans de nombreuses expositions et galeries : Whitney Musem (The Warhol Look : 1998), Barbican Art Gallery (1999), Victoria & Albert Museum (2007), Musée Réattu (2008), ICA Gallery Women in Film (2009). L'artiste a également collaboré avec la marque Comme des Garçons sur plusieurs installations. --------------------------- British born artist 1962 Lives and works in Paris Autodidact, working in several mediums, Katerina Jebb addresses the human body and its representation, questions gender and identity, dehumanizing the real and humanizing the artificial. She clinically documents objects resulting in a cold machine-made aesthetic. Her images are all at once with, and without emotions. She employs machines, cheap domestic scanners, industrial sized photocopy machines and lo-fi camera equipment, often eluding post production and editing. Subtly existing outside of the establishment, Jebb's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Hayward Gallery. Recent works have been aquired for the permanent collection of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Musée Réattu, Arles. --------------------------- TAL ISAAC HADAD Tal Isaac Hadad est un artiste Sonore, son &oelig;uvre suit un processus où la musique et le son devient un territoire d’expérimentations, de recherche et donne lieu à des expositions, des performances et des concepts d’objets qui introduisent un sens nouveau à l’écoute et à la perception du son. Ses dernière interventions ont été présenter à la Galerie Vermelho à São Paulo, à la galerie Elaine Levy Galerie à Bruxelles, au Plateau, ( en 2008 avec Cao Fei) et la galerie Anne Plus Art Project à Paris, au Kunst Werke à Berlin, au DIAF à Pékin, et à la Biennale d'Istanbul. http://www.globalheartme.com Vie et travail a Paris. --------------------- Tal Isaac Hadad is a sound artist. His artwork follows a conceptual process where music and sound becomes an area, where the listening focus is shifted toward actions, performances, objects and introduces new meaning through the perception of sound. His latest interventions have taken place at Gallery Vermelho in São Paulo, at Elaine Levy Gallery in Brussels, Anne Plus Art Project in Paris and le Plateau (2008, with Cao Fei), Kunst Werke Art Center in Berlin, DIAF in Beijing, and at the Istanbul Biennial. http://www.globalheartme.com Lives and works in Paris. 20 mai - 17 Juin / Mai 20 - June 17, 2010 Vernissage jeudi 20 mai / Opening Thursday, 19h-22h / 7-10pm </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:28:12 +0100 Randall Bachner & Patricia Schwoerer: WATERS http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=36 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/36/img646496432_glythumb36_bachner.png'></td><td valign='top'> Brachfeld Gallery est heureuse de présenter pour la première fois à Paris le travail photographique de Randall Bachner et de Patricia Schwoerer. L’exposition WATERS , composée des &oelig;uvres « Black Waves » de Randall Bachner et « 61° 1' 18" North 46° 38' 34" West » de Patricia Schwoerer, met en scène la vision partagée d’un même élément, dont la représentation photographique se situe néanmoins à l’opposé l’une de l’autre. Le travail de ces jeunes artistes s’inscrit dans la tradition de la photographie de paysage du XXe siècle, qui se définie par l’expérience réelle du vécu. Randall a passé douze étés consécutifs à contempler la même mer, tandis que Patricia est partie en expédition un mois sur un canoë pour capturer ces icebergs. En dépit d’un contraste visuel manifeste, les &oelig;uvres de Randall Bachner et de Patricia Schwoerer—un liquide bleu nuit et la banquise immaculée—réussissent à dégager une poésie commune.  Black Waves, Randall Bachner, 2008  Brachfeld gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Randall Bachner and Patricia Schwoerer, for the first time in Paris.WATERS, which is composed of the artworks "Black Waves" by Randall Bachner and "61° 1' 18'' North 46° 38' 34'' West" by Patricia Schwoerer, is an opposite portrayal of the same element. Both artists work within the tradition of 20th century landscape photography, which defines itself through a real experience of life. Randall spent 12 summers contemplating the same sea, while Patricia spent a month in her canoe capturing the purity she found in three icebergs. These two bodies of work contrast visually—one is fluid black, the other frozen white—but the poetry and emotion they evoke is complimentary.  RANDALL BACHNER Né en 1970 à Boston, USA. Diplômé en 1992 section Histoire de l’Art, Skidmore College. Vit et travaille à Brooklyn, NY. Depuis les années 1990, il travaille régulièrement avec la presse magazine tout en développant une carrière commerciale. En 1999, suite à sa première exposition personnelle, il développe une recherche photographique en dehors du cadre commercial. Son travail est publié dans de nombreux magazines dont W, The New York Times Magazine, Arena Homme Plus et Wallpaper.  Cette série d’images intitulée Black Waves a été photographiée pendant l’été 2008, sur le bord de lacôte Atlantique, à Truro dans le Massaschusetts. « Pendant ces douze dernières années, j'ai rendu visite à ce même fragment de mer et je n'avais jamais vu l'eau si dense et si riche, sa couleur et sa texture faisant penser à du velours. Cette eau noire, à la fois calme et paisible mais aussi inquiétante, s’est avérée provoquer de profondes émotions. Le travail présenté est disposé en groupe consécutif d'images, comme il a été photographié, dans le but de recréer ce moment d’observation.  // Born 1970 BOSTON, MA  Received a BA in Art History from Skidmore College 1992  Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY Has been shooting commercial and editorial fashion assignments regularly since the early 90's. Began producing work outside of the commercial realm in 1999 with his first solo exhibition in New York.  His photographs have appeared in many publications including W, The New York Times Magazine, Arena Homme Plus and Wallpaper.  This series of images entitled "Black Waves" were photographed in the summer of 2008 along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Truro Massachusetts.  “I have been visiting this same stretch of sea for the past twelve years and had never seen the water so densely thick and rich with color and velvet-like textures. There was a quality to the water that appeared unique, evocative, and deeply emotional. The black water was calm and peaceful yet at the same time ominous and threatening. Exhibited as a group of consecutive images, as they were photographed, I intend to re-create this moment observed”.   PATRICIA SCHWOERER Née en 1976 en Forêt-Noir. Vit et travaille à Paris, France. Arrivée à Paris en 1996. C’est l’année suivante qu’elle entreprend son premier voyage à but photographique en Bolivie. Entre 1999 et 2006 elle assiste le photographe de nature morte Federico Cimatti. Depuis, elle continue à voyager dans le but de développer son travail photographique. En 2006, elle débute sa propre carrière professionnelle.  Son travail est publié dans les magazines indépendants tels que Kilimanjaro, Fantastic Man, Ten, et Paris, LA. En parallèle, elle travaille régulièrement avec des clients tels que Dior Homme, Cartier et Issey Miyake. Cette série sur les icebergs intitulée « 61° 1' 18" North 46° 38' 34" West » a été réalisée lors d’un voyage au Groenland en 2008.  « Le point de mire de ma recherche photographique est de rendre visible le mélange de lumière, de capter l’invisible et de toucher le vide. Tenter de reproduire la quintessence du Blanc. Pourquoi le Blanc ? Regarder le Blanc me permet de caresser des sensations fortes et de créer à mon tour des sentiments méditatifs. Le Blanc c’est éblouissant. Rimbaud à propos du Blanc disait: “Rien que du Blanc à songer”. En effet le Blanc dans la nature est généreux, il offre une quantité inépuisable de formes, de lignes, de courbes et de volumes. Il donne des temps de respirations, figure la solitude, incarne la liberté, et symbolise l’innocence. Nives Meroi, une alpiniste Italienne, disait à ce sujet “de retour d’une journée sur le blanc, il reste le regret de l’avoir sali.” Pour moi, s’abandonner au Blanc, c’est comme partir à la conquête de soi en empruntant la passerelle du silence. » // Born in 1976 in the Black Forest of Germany. Lives and works in Paris. Arrived in Paris in 1996 and took her first long photographic voyage to Bolivia in 1997. Since then she has continued to travel and take pictures as to develop her personal work. From1999 to 2006, she assists still life photographer Federcio Cimatti, until beginning her own professional career as a commercial photographer in 2006.  Her work regularly appears in publications such as Kilimanjaro, Fantastic Man, Ten, and Paris, LA magazines, and she works regularly with clients such as Dior Homme, Cartier and Issey Miyake. This particular series was taken on a voyage to Greenland in 2008 where she spent a month in a canoe getting as close as possible to these magnificent icebergs. “The starting point of my photographic research is to interprit light, capture the invisible, and depict the void. I try to reproduce the essence of the color white. Why white? Because it allows me to create work from a meditative place that embodies something powerful. White is dazzling. Concerning this color, Rimbaud said: “think over only in white”. White by nature is varied, it offers an endless quantity of forms, lines, curves, and volumes. It conjures a feeling of free breathing space, lonliness, and incarnates freedom while symblozing innocence. Nives Meroi, an Italian mountain climber, said, “ Back from a day spent in white, it was a regret to soil it”. For me to surrender myself to the color white, is like conducting personal research guiding me through the path of silence.   8 Avril - 15 Mai, 2010 / April 8 - May 15, 2010  Vernissage Jeudi 8 Avril / Opening Thursday, April 8  19h - 22h / 7 - 10pm   </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:13:36 +0100 LIVE ALIVE Tour tâ€“shirts by SANDBERG&TIMONEN http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=35 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/35/img942518125_glythumb35_hackermann.png'></td><td valign='top'> LIVE ALIVE — Tour t–shirts created by SANDBERG&TIMONEN, dedicated to fashion lovers favorite heros. 50€ piece. All proceeds will benefit Medecins Sans Frontiéres and their efforts in Haiti. FEBRUARY 4TH–28TH, 2010 OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 7–10 PM –––––––––––––––––––– An exhibition paying homage to the men and women who rock our fashion world, and the fans that love them... Sandberg&Timonen have created a series of Concert tour t–shirts for a selected group of our most revered style icons. For those who can remember the first fashion show they dared sneak into, or for those who are still doing it; for the people who have packed away their scrapbooks of magazine cut outs filled with dreams of teenage escapism, and for those that are still cutting and pasting... From Alber Elbaz to Haider Ackermann, Rick Owens to Miuccia Prada, a label is more than its clothes. The broad scope of influences our fashion heros have, and the media attention they garner, is an ever growing sphere. Their power of inspiration and excitement extend into a multitude of channels. Designers are at the epicenter of a worldwide community; they are the sparks, leaders, and directors who inspire us all. The designers featured are: . Alber Elbaz Azzedine Alaia Christopher Kane Haider Ackermann Jean Paul Gaultier Karl Lagerfeld Maison Martin Margiela Marc Jacobs Miuccia Prada Phoebe Philo Raf Simons Rick Owens Rodarte Sonia Rykiel Stefano Pilati Viktor&Ralf Distressed, size medium black cotton t–shirts with white print. All t–shirts are created in a limited series. 50 euro piece. All proceeds will benefit Medecins Sans Frontiéres and their efforts in Haiti. PRESS ONLINE: <a href="http://www.roseapodaca.com/?page=2" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-family: 'times new roman'; ">On roseapodaca.com</a> <a href="http://www.vogue.fr/mode/en_vogue/100209-la-groupie-du-styliste.aspx" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On vogue.com</a> <a href="http://next.liberation.fr/article/heavy-couture" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On liberation.com</a> <a href="http://www.dazeddigital.com/Fashion/article/6446/1/Sartorial_Stars" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On dazeddigital.com</a> On <a href="http://www.fashionwindows.net/2010/02/live-alive-exhibit/" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">fashionwindows.com</a> <a href="http://www.menstyle.fr/style/tendances/articles/100210-la-groupie-du-styliste.aspx" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On menstyle.fr</a> <a href="http://www.parischeri.fr/?p=1460" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On paricheri.fr</a> <a href="http://internationalswagger.over-blog.com/article-brachfeld-gallery-x-medecins-sans-frontieres-44632828.html" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">On internationalswagger.over-blog.com</a> </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:14 +0100 P R E S E N T S a holiday gift shop created by Slow and Steady Wins the Race http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=34 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/34/img1853173472_glythumb34_presents.png'></td><td valign='top'> What is under your tree? This holiday season Slow and Steady Wins the Race will be opening up first Parisian shop at Brachfeld gallery in Paris from December 1 to Christmas Eve. In addition to two specially designed nesting gift towers by Slow and Steady Wins the Race, one dozen or so artists will offer their version of PRESENTS, as a series of nesting boxes exploring this concept of the holiday spirit of giving, discovery and surprises. (Each box revealing a smaller box with a smaller gift) From the traditional to the conceptual each series of nesting boxes will be a curatorial edit of special objects, abstract hemes or ideas of exchange. All items are limited edition and will be for sale only for this time period. Guest artists and designers include filmmaker Matt Wolf, graphic designer Carl Williamson, artist Chris Caccamise, artist Harry Roseman and Catherine Murphy, artists Mika Tajima, art director Sonny Gerasimowicz (Where the Wild Things Are), Los Angeles designers Hansel from Basel and Alexandra Cassaniti and many more to come... Slow and Steady Wins the Race will also unveil its inaugural holiday album with 100% of the proceeds going to the charity One LapTop Per Child. The album of is a specific selection of contemporary sounds and tonalties carefully chosen by us and artfully arranged by Rob Carmichael of Catsup Plate records. The shop will also feature the Marais' first CHRISTMAS WINDOW, inspired by the American tradition of bringing the holiday spirit to the street, passersby can enjoy a true holiday window, complete with stuffed animals, moving model trains, surprises and toys. December 1—24, 2009 Opening reception Tuesday, December 1 7—10pm </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:49:37 +0100 SANG BLEU EXHIBITION http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=32 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/32/img270375532_glythumb32_sangbleu.png'></td><td valign='top'></td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:41:47 +0100 OLA RINDAL & RIZZOLI http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=31 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/31/img1795973023_glythumb31_olarindal.png'></td><td valign='top'> Book Launch Ola Rindal & Rizzoli invite you to celebrate the publication of SHOOT   SUNDAY OCTOBER 11 7.30pm </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:34:48 +0100 ZERO + MARIA CORNEJO - EXHIBITION & POP UP STORE PRESS http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=29 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/29/img613177408_glythumb29_cornejo.png'></td><td valign='top'> ZERO + MARIA CORNEJO — EXHIBITION & POP UP STORE June 20—July 11, 2009 Opening reception Thursday,June 25 6—9pm   Press <a href="http://www.style.com/stylefile/2009/05/dix-ie-chic/" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Style.com</a> <a href="http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/maria-cornejo-pops-into-paris-2149060?src=rss/fashion/20090529" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">WWD</a> online </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:51:18 +0100 MICHEL PEROT http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=28 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/28/img1405941591_glythumb28_michelperot.png'></td><td valign='top'> Artist’s statement “The paintings presented here are void of the human figure as the drama is situated in the landscape itself, shaped by traces of human occupation. These subjects, often disgraced, or already condemned, need, for me, to be painted in their grotesque state. The large format canvases become a means, by rendering the neglible significant, of allowing the antiquated form of landscape painting a contemporary relevance. Painting maintains the same impact for a fragmentary subject as photography. It’s by the adopted process that photography, always present in the smallest details of the work, continues to recall something seen. As underlined mainly by their toponymic titles, each work is, if not completely naturalist, at least realistic, and preserves the quality of photography as an objective document. However, these landscapes are also fantasized and mnemonic. The lighting is not natural, and the colors are sometimes entirely recomposed, in isolated areas or sometimes across the whole painting. A certain freedom, expanded from photography, enables me to develop an autonomous pictorial logic, one that arises from memory, as well as the emotional resonance of melancholy.” —Michel Perot Michel Perot (born 1981, Paris) lives and works in Paris. A 2008 graduate of the L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Perot received the “Félicitations du jury,” and will be included in the forthcoming exhibition of 2008 “Félicités” at Beaux-Arts. <div>   LILLIAN DAVIES presents MICHEL PEROT Opening reception Wednesday, May 6 Show running from May 7 to 17, 2009 Opening hours Tuesday—Sunday, 2—7pm Press: <a href="http://www.artslant.com/par/articles/show/7103" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; " target="_blank">ArtSlant</a>   </div> </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:37:08 +0100 CÃ‰DRIC RIVRAIN â€” DRAWINGS http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=26 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/26/img1976593511_glythumb26_cedricrivrain.png'></td><td valign='top'>Based in Paris, Cédric Rivrain works within the fashion world as illustrator and designer since the age of 18. These collaborations include magazines such as Tokion, Numéro, and A magazine; drawing for fashion designers such as Yazbukey, John Galliano, and Martine Sitbon, and exhibiting in notable spaces such as Le Bon Marche, Maria Luisa, and Christie's. Born in 1977, the son of a doctor, Rivrain grew up in a medical environment, surrounded by bandages and the study of the human body. Anatomy has held a constant place in his life, and consequently and consistenly influences his work. The drawings exhibited here are personal. Devoid of any commercial or professional constraints. They are his free hand, his personal world, and his escape from his daily tasks. Yet even when Cedric attempts to distance himself from fashion with bandages and dissection, what he illustrates best, and what is constantly present is beauty. This personal work is not anti-fashion, but the radical difference between these drawings and those "on command," is that these may reach deeper into what attracted this human being to the industry in the first place. May 26—June 16, 2009 Opening reception Tuesday, May 26 6—9pm   </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:10:20 +0100 JOHAN SANDBERG â€” SHANGHAI http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=24 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/24/img262048520_glythumb24_sandberg.png'></td><td valign='top'> JOHAN SANDBERG — SHANGHAI October 23—November 20, 2008 Opening reception Thursday, October 23 6—9pm </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:40:18 +0100 RIKKE RUHWALD â€” HOME COUTURE LE KLINT inspired mobiles http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=23 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/23/img1003684228_glythumb23_rikke.png'></td><td valign='top'> Likened to “couture for the home,” the mobiles and lamps of Rikke Ruhwald are more of a reference to her years in the fashion world then might ordinarily meet the eye. A graduate of St. Martin’s school of design in London, and former design assistant of Martine Sitbon, Christian Lacroix , Jean Charles Castelbajac, and most recently Sonia Rykiel, she has spent over ten years at the center of Paris fashion. Now recently returned to Copenhagen this exhibition is a combination of both worlds; An hommage to Danish heritage and craftsmanship, mixed with the savoir faire of 3D draping and luxury design. Not only a continuation of the drapping techniques she used on the human form, these works are also a reference to the process of fashion itself. Worn out after years of researching inspiration to be edited and translated into something constantly new for the catwalk only to then fall off into oblivion, and mixed with an awareness and sensitivity towards some of the issues of consumation and waste that plague our global society, Rikke’s statement, or rather interest is in finding, celebrating and re-using what is already in existence. In many of her works this is generally represented by the use of found objects: left overs of homes and businesses around Copenhagen.  For this exhibition and these works in particular, it is the use of the estimed, Le Klint lampshades. Made possible by the generous donation of cut offs from the Iconic Danish lamp manufacturers unique cross pleating technique on PVC. Not only is the historical nature of the pleating important to Rikke, but the couture house nature of the Le Klint atelier is another reminder and connection to her experiences in Paris, her former home. For this collection, which is her 3rd, she is presenting 4 mobiles and 2 lamps. Pieces that create their own explosive story, one including the play of shadows, of subtle motion and light from within. February 6 - February 22, 2008 Opening reception Tuesday, February 5, 7-9pm </td></tr></table> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:21:45 +0100 TODD COLE â€” I AM YOURS TO KEEP http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_exhibitions.php?gid=12 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads/12/img723207160_glythumb12_toddcole.png'></td><td valign='top'> With I Am Yours to Keep, Todd Cole intends to reveal, to the ones who take time to see, a story about him. Originally shot to be published as a book, the images function like words, and the words put together create a visual poem. Indeed, I Am Yours to Keep is a metaphor about Cole’s teenage years trough his early twenties growing up in Houston, Texas, a period and a place in his life where he felt emotionally displaced, and sometimes hurted, while at the same time holding a strong desire to transcend beyond the known. The story—shot in southern California in the counties of San Bernardino, Fontana, The Redlands, and Riverside— is composed into three of the primary driving emotions he felt as growing up and continues to feel today living in LA: displacement, sexuality and transcendence.  Todd Cole’s photography tries to create with honesty and immediacy, images that are not loaded with history, or a particular contemporary visual language but break from some of the traditional visual signifiers in modern photography: a well defined subject within the frame, graphic compositions that lead the eye to the subject, or horizontal landscape compositions. His work has already been shown in Paris at colette (2003), and in Mexico City at Monclova Gallery (2005). In addition to the development of his personal work, Todd Cole’s photography features regularly in International magazines including i-D, Purple, Self Ser vice, 032C, New York Times T Magazine, Vogue, Fantastic Man, The Fader, Art Review, and Vogue Hommes International. TODD COLE - I AM YOURS TO KEEP 3—26 SEPTEMBER 2009 OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 3 6—9pm </td></tr></table> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:26:48 +0100 Concert http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=27 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/27/'></td><td valign='top'><h3>  </h3> SATURDAY 18TH FROM 7 PM brachfeld gallery is very happy to welcome Kacey Johansing,  californian musician based in San Francisco.  Described by The Bay Bridged as “gorgeous acoustic pop”, San Francisco based musician Kacey Johansing creates songs with meandering melodies, lush harmonies and moody aural landscapes. Weaving together elements of folk, jazz, pop and classical music, it sounds as if she spent years studying in old smoky theaters with icons Leonard Bernstein and Joni Mitchell directing the show, and The Beach Boys in the orchestra pit. A soulful, honeyed voice and lilting vibrato land her the leading role. <a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">http://</a><a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.kaceyjohansing.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">www.kaceyjohansing.com/</a><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kacey-Johansing/280936311745 <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"> Special DJ set by Simone RUBI</h1> <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h1> <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h1> <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h1> <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h1> <h1 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h1> <h3 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h3> <h3 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h3> <h3 style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">  </h3> To make this event even more sparkling, Simone Rubi is coming from Los Angeles to spin some records.  Come early and bring your friends!  <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;"> <a href="http://www.simonerubi.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">http://www.simonerubi.com/</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/simonerubimusic" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/simonerubimusic</a></td></tr></table> Tue, 14 May 2013 15:43:32 +0200 The Welcome Back Party http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=22 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/22/img1488916450_glythumb22_welcomebackflyer.png'></td><td valign='top'>The Welcome Back Party! 2011 is here, and it's going to be a great year January 15th from 19--23h Featuring Scott Barnhill and Oh Othello Brachfeld Gallery 78 rue des Archives Entrance fee 7 euros including all you can drink </td></tr></table> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:42:39 +0200 Project No.8 - Holiday Shop http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=21 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/21/img931795000_glythumb21_project8small.png'></td><td valign='top'></td></tr></table> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:09:51 +0200 Kacey Johansing http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=9 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/9/img162695953_glythumb9_top.png'></td><td valign='top'>Thursday, July 1st 7PM 78 rue des archives 75003 Paris</td></tr></table> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:46:36 +0100 BART DAVENPORT & FRIENDS - CONCERT http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=8 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/8/img1593840112_glythumb8_davenportsmall.png'></td><td valign='top'><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> BART DAVENPORT & FRIENDS CONCERT MONDAY SEPT 14, 2009 AT 7PM MySpace links: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kaceyjohansing">Kacey Johansing</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kaceyjohansing">Bart Daventport</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/kaceyjohansing">Simone Rubi</a> </div> </td></tr></table> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:21:47 +0100 Ami Sioux Private Concert http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/gallery_events.php?gid=7 <table><tr><td valign='top'><img src='http://www.brachfeld-gallery.com/glyuploads_events/7/img794294739_glythumb7_amiTOp.png'></td><td valign='top'>Ami Sioux is a photographer working and living in Paris. She picked up a steel string guitar in the spring of 2004 while she was living in Berlin and started playing. Many months of her hands finding chords led to the first songs, and the first tape recordings made, mostly with major strumming emphasis and pounding techniques. These tapes have been placed in the archive to be opened at an undiscerned date. After encouragement from many of her friends and family who aided by pointing her untrained fingers toward some known chords but also bearing the early painful attempts at making songs, in December of 2005, the first real song was born, entitled Lowly Levelin´. The first release of the twelve first songs was released in June 2007 entitled "To Take You Down", written and composed 2005-06 in Berlin and Paris. The album lives at <a href="http://www.totakeyoudown.amisioux.com/" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://www.totakeyoudown.amisioux.com</a> where you can hear the entire album and see lyrics and such. You can see her MySpace here: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/siouxami" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/siouxami</a> </td></tr></table> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:14:10 +0100