Matei Glass
dal 10/10/2006 al 14/11/2006
Segnalato da
10/10/2006
Matei Glass
Play Gallery (old location), Berlin
Magnetic. Both his photographic travel journal The Other in Palestine, (Actar ed. 2003), and his 13 minute video “Magnetic Identities" (Metronom Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004) form part of an ongoing project that began in 1997. While these images are mainly of Palestine and Palestinians, they are also somehow of their author as he attempts to redefine the other.
Magnetic. The Other in Palestine and Magnetic Identities. Photographs and Video
The video installation and large format images that Matei Glass
(Joseph Winterfeld, b.1956) presents at Play_gallery for still and motion
pictures form a reflection on identities which cannot be mutually exclusive
and memory when it becomes superimposed
Matei Glass was born in Montreal, the son of Jewish refugees from
Romania, Holocaust survivors whose support for Israel “could not be other
than unquestioning." Both his photographic travel journal The Other in
Palestine, (Actar ed. 2003), and his 13 minute video “Magnetic Identities"
(Metronom Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2004) form part of an ongoing
project that began in 1997. While these images are mainly of Palestine and
Palestinians, they are also somehow of their author as he attempts to
redefine the other. “In a sense it is my need to fill in the blanks in my
personal and collective memory that brought me to Palestine … I needed to
walk through the mirror to see utopia’s otherside, its forgotten twin." In
2004 Magnetic was laureate for the Prix du Dialogue de l’Humanite, at the
Rencontres Internationals de la Photographie at Arles in France.
Matei Glass’ images, installations and video work have been exhibited
internationally in both solo and collective shows, as well as A.R.C.O.
International Fair of Contemporary Art in Madrid; Rencontres Internationales
de la Photographie d’Arles, France; PhotoEspana; ARTCOLOGNE International
Fair of Contemporary Art Cologne and, the “Loop" International Festival of
Video Creation. His work is to be found in both public and private
collections, notably: Metronom Foundation for Contemporary Art; Rafael Tous
Collection Contemporary Art; The Royal Photographic Society of Spain;
Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliote'que Nationale de France; Collection
Audio-Visuel Francois Mitterand Bibliote'que Nationale de France;Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada; The Walter Benjamin
Foundation,; The Consulate of Canada, Barcelona (permanent monographic
exhibition)and the private collection of John Berger, France.
Matei Glass settled in Paris in the mid 80’s and has lived in
Barcelona since 1995.
Opening: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 / 7pm
PLAY_gallery for still and motion pictures
Hannoversche strasse 1d - Berlin
Opening hours: wed-sat 2-7pm