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Three exhibitions
dal 31/7/2014 al 18/10/2014

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Jai Tyler



 
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31/7/2014

Three exhibitions

The Photographers' Gallery, London

For his show Lorenzo Vitturi draws on his background as a cinema set painter and designer to combine photography, installation and sculpture. Part social experiment, part media performance, the project of Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico generated significant worldwide media coverage. "Primrose" showcases the appearance and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to the 1970s.


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1 August - 19 October 2014
Lorenzo Vitturi
Dalston Anatomy

Lorenzo Vitturi’s vibrant still lifes capture the threatened spirit of Dalston’s Ridley Road Market.

Vitturi – who lives locally – feels compelled to capture its distinctive nature before it is gentrified beyond recognition. Vitturi arranges found objects and photographs them against backdrops of discarded market materials, in dynamic compositions. These are combined with street scenes and portraits of local characters to create a unique portrait of a soon to be extinct way of life.

The still lifes are accompanied by street scenes and portraits of people he encountered on his daily walks. Some of these photographs are displayed as they are, while others are used as surfaces that are layered with objects and then re-photographed.

His installation at the Gallery draws on the temporary structures of the market using raw materials, sculptural forms and photographs to explore ideas about creation, consumption and preservation.

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1 August - 19 October 2014
Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia

Primrose showcases the appearance and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to the 1970s. It presents both the history of Russian photography and the history of Russia in photography, depicting life over the course of a century, as the country endured unprecedented upheaval.

The exhibition is arranged in chronological order and shows the development of photographic colour technology and the social transformations which altered the role of photography in Russian society.

Early experiments range from hand-tinting of images to early 20th century tri-plate isochromatic photographs and autochromes.

After the 1917 Revolution photomontage quickly developed in the Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, facilitating the creation of visual utopias. Bolshevik propaganda utilised this ‘visual weapon’ and the colour red became dominant.

From the mid-1940s to the early 1960s costly colour film was used only by a small number of official publications to produce the Socialist realism that served the Stalinist ideological machine.

From the early 1960s the Khrushchev Thaw stimulated the growth of humanistic photography in the USSR.

In the 1970s unofficial culture developed rapidly and inexpensive colour transparency film was made available to the general public. Underground photographers used it to create slideshows accessible to a small circle of like-minded people for home viewing.

Text by Curator, Olga Sviblova.

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1 August - 2 October 2014
Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico
Face to Facebook

In 2011, Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio stole one million Facebook profiles, filtered them with face recognition software and posted them on a custom made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
Part social experiment, part media performance, the project generated significant worldwide media coverage, eleven lawsuit threats, five death threats and letters from Facebook lawyers.

As questions continue to be raised about the use and control of facial images online, we present the archive of the Face to Facebook project for the first time in a UK gallery.

http://face-to-facebook.net

The artists will be giving a talk at the Gallery on Sunday 28 September at 16.00.

Alessandro Ludovico is an artist, media critic and chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He is one of the founders of Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organisation) and also served as an advisor for Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He is one of the authors of the Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook.

Paolo Cirio is a contemporary artist renowned for his controversial and innovative artworks. Cirio’s artworks often engage power structures, global mass media and the general public in art performances that enact contemporary social, economic and political conflicts. He has won a number of awards, including the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica and his projects have been exhibited internationally.

For more information please contact: Jai Tyler, Education and Projects Organiser at The Photographers’ Gallery jai.tyler@tpg.org.uk

Image: Lorenzo Vitturi, Yellow Chalk #1 & 2, 2013

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