Photography: Exchange and Interchange
dal 3/7/2000 al 20/8/2000
Segnalato da
3/7/2000
Photography: Exchange and Interchange
Theatre Antique, Arles
Echoes, interweavings, extinctions.
Programme by Gilles Mora
With the Rencontres d’Arles ever on the alert for
changes bearing on photography, this first festival
for the new millennium will set out to
resume the influences and
mergers the photographic
image has undergone.
For a long time now
photography has either been
linked to other forms of visual
expression or has generated
and recorded cultural and
thematic interminglings.
Several individual exhibitions
will illustrate this radical
approach to mixing: while
representing different eras
and areas of concern, Tina
Modotti, Robert Heinecken,
Herbert Matter and the
Danish Peter Sekaer are all
excellent historical
examples.
Yet contemporary
photography is now
marked through and
through by métissage; so
for the first time curators
from Europe’s major
institutions will be using
substantial thematic
exhibitions to focus on a
trend with real implications
for creative photography.
There are the relationships
between video and
photography, for example,
or between painting and
photography, together with
pictorial and musical
creation: the traditional
notions of photographic
image and narrative have
broken wide open and here
a whole festival is showing
just how. The work of rarely
shown artists in quest of
new expressive forms will
be displayed in exhibitions
and at the screenings the
Rencontres d’Arles have
made their speciality over
the last 31 years. And all
this in the setting of one of
Provence’s handsomest
towns.
According to some, the
image is in the process of
vanishing from a society
that misuses it; but via
photography, says Jean
Baudrillard, the image is
standing up for itself. Come
to Arles this year and be
convinced!
Festival opening and private views
Tuesday 4 July, from 4 p.m.
Dance for all / Place de la République
Organised in conjunction with "Le Cargo"
Tuesday 4 July, from 10 p.m.
Evening Shows
Théâtre Antique, 10 p.m.
Wednesday 5 July
Jean-Michel Alberola / A Border Crossing
Thursday 6 July
Frederick Sommer / Solitude in Arizona
Edward Weston and Tina Modotti / Love
Story in Mexico
Vanishing Point
Jean Baudrillard: For an aesthetics of
extinction
Ruin on the horizon
Saturday 8 July
"On Air!"
On 5 and 6 July two concerts will take
place on the Place Voltaire after the
evening shows at the Théâtre Antique. The
concerts will be put on by the Muchmore
label, which will present its Oriental music
group OO.
Exhibitions
5 July - 20 August
Opening hours: 5 - 9 July, 10. a.m. - 9 p.m.
10 July - 20 August, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday evenings until 9 p.m.
Closing press conference for the
Rencontres Internationales de la
Photographie
Sunday 9 July at 11a.m. in the Festival
Office
Prices
These prices are subject to modification
Evening Shows at the Théâtre Antique:
Full price 80 FF/12.19 euros
Concessions* 40 FF/6,10 euros
All four Evening Shows: 200 FF/30.50
euros
Exhibitions: 20 - 35 FF/3.05 - 5.33 euros
according to the venue
Concessions*: 10 - 20 FF/1.52 - 3.05
euros
according to the venue
Season ticket: 150 FF/22.87 euros
4 exhibitions pass: 90 FF/13.75 euros
Catalogue + Season Ticket: 300 FF/45.73
euros
Catalogue: 250 FF/38.11 euros
Thanks to Photo Service, the entry to
exhibitions are free
to persons under 25.
*Concessions: available to students,
unemployed persons, community groups,
works councils, army conscripts, groups of
10 and over.
Professional rates: proof of identity
required.
All exhibitions and the four Evening Shows:
150 FF/
22.87 euros
All exhibitions and catalogue: 250
FF/38.11 euros
The Festival Office
Collège Saint-Charles - 2, rue de la Calade - Arles