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2/2/2012

Renato Casaro / Chris Killip

Museum Folkwang, Essen

RENATO CASARO
Painted Movies
4 February - 15 April, 2012

The German Poster Museum is presenting works by Renato Casaro, held to be the last great poster-maker, who influenced the international world of film posters for many decades.

Exceptional in his work is the careful application of his drafts on his poster. These “drafts” are generally carefully executed paintings which Casaro created as if they were independent works.

The exhibition shows around 70 posters and draft posters on certain film genres which Casaro worked on. Among these are, for example monumental films (The Last Emperor, 1989), mafia sages (Once Upon a Time in America, 1983) to name just a few. The exhibition provides examples of how a poster is created from the idea through sketches and paintings up to the resulting poster.

With the works of Casaro, the Museum Folkwang is starting a series focussing on film posters which will continue with further exhibitions in 2012 and 2013.

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CHRIS KILLIP
work
4 February - 15 April, 2012

The Museum Folkwang is showing an overview of the works of the photographer Chris Killip. After the retrospective of Joel Sternfeld, a dedicated color photographer, we are presenting in Killip a pictorial author for whom black and white photography means a concentration on content.

Our exhibition includes 107 photographs from the period 1968-2004 made in the North of England. Born in 1946 in Douglas on the Isle of Man, Killip began his career as photographer as assistant to Adrian Flowers in London and then began working as an independent photographer in 1969. In 1976 he was a founding member of the Side Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he organized numerous photography exhibitions as director and curator.

Since 1991, Killip has been professor of photography at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1973 Killip’s photographs have been presented in numerous exhibitions. With his project INFLAGRANTE, which appeared as a book in 1988, he attained international recognition. This work, in which Killip formulated his interest for the relation of people with their surroundings, was the result of a long-term project in the North of England between 1975 and 1987. A large part of his photographic work was done in this region. From a personal knowledge of this landscape and its people Killip developed a form of photographic narrative which moves between distance and closeness, between factual description and subjective commentary. This moment of regional or even local concentration had already provided British photographers a new perspective in the 1970s, one which it would perhaps be worthwhile looking back on today in the context of global ambitions.

Image: © Chris Killip

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Opening February 3rd, 2012

Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1 - Essen
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