Opening: 12 Sepetember at 6pm.
Showing posts with label Photographic Exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photographic Exhibition. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Jurgen Schadeberg and Andrew Barker Photographic Exhibition
Kalk Bay Modern is pleased to present the first exhibition for The Month of Photography (MOP) featuring photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg, The Black and White Fifties and Andrew Barker's Alchemical Jargon series.
Opening: 12 Sepetember at 6pm.
Opening: 12 Sepetember at 6pm.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Andrew Barker - ALCHEMICAL JARGON
"I am always brought back to the question of how and why I make things with my own hands. I am intrigued by the reverie created when light reacts with chemicals (Grotthus Law 1817), and the simplicity of the method it represents.
Like the Philosophers Stone, it allows me to transform and preserve the ephemeral events of everyday life and the stories it evokes, which I want to tell and want to endure. I do this in a manner that I hope captures something of the antique pioneering enthusiasm on which the method was founded. But there may be danger in the method. Is it possible to narrate stories in this form, and make them contemporary and abreast of the times? I hope so.
The works I have chosen for this show contain my daydreams and fanciful illusions of the possibilities of producing photographic images. For me, they are feelings, chemicals, condensations, in simple expressive forms. I hope these works raise questions of artistic intent and representation. Of place, pose or poetry, of taking or making, and of reading the silent metaphysical tone and not merely the things represented.
These chemical dreams, I call them." Andrew Barker
About the photographer:
Andrew Barker has been practicing photography for twenty years and has been a practitioner and lay-scholar of 19th and early 20th century photography for the last fifteen years. In this regard, he predominantly uses cameras from this period - such as mammoth-plate 10x12 inch cameras (and smaller ones too). He also specializes in ways of processing that combine the methods used during these periods with more modern, contemporary ones. He has learned his skills through extensive research, and by experimentation and practice.
Andrew has kept his work private for many years. Nevertheless recently he has begun to exhibit some of his work.
Like the Philosophers Stone, it allows me to transform and preserve the ephemeral events of everyday life and the stories it evokes, which I want to tell and want to endure. I do this in a manner that I hope captures something of the antique pioneering enthusiasm on which the method was founded. But there may be danger in the method. Is it possible to narrate stories in this form, and make them contemporary and abreast of the times? I hope so.
The works I have chosen for this show contain my daydreams and fanciful illusions of the possibilities of producing photographic images. For me, they are feelings, chemicals, condensations, in simple expressive forms. I hope these works raise questions of artistic intent and representation. Of place, pose or poetry, of taking or making, and of reading the silent metaphysical tone and not merely the things represented.
These chemical dreams, I call them." Andrew Barker
About the photographer:
Andrew Barker has been practicing photography for twenty years and has been a practitioner and lay-scholar of 19th and early 20th century photography for the last fifteen years. In this regard, he predominantly uses cameras from this period - such as mammoth-plate 10x12 inch cameras (and smaller ones too). He also specializes in ways of processing that combine the methods used during these periods with more modern, contemporary ones. He has learned his skills through extensive research, and by experimentation and practice.
Andrew has kept his work private for many years. Nevertheless recently he has begun to exhibit some of his work.
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| Washing Line |
Jurgen Schadeberg - THE BLACK & WHITE FIFTIES
An insightful collection of photographs from South Africa's past, featuring portraits from Schadeberg's work with Drum magazine to Nelson Mandela during the Treason Trial, forced removals from Sophiatown, the night life of jazz musicians and dancers as well as enigmatic scenes of township life.
"When I arrived in South Africa in 1950 from Germany I found two societies running in parallel with each other without any communication whatsoever. There was an invisible wall between the two worlds. The Black World, or "Non European World" as described by white society, was culturally and economically rejected by the White World. Only servants and menial workers could enter the White World.
In the fifties The Black World was becoming culturally and politically very dynamic, whereas the White World seemed to me to be isolated, cocooned, colonial and ignorant of the Black World. In the fifties The Black World was becoming culturally and politically very dynamic, whereas the White World seemed to me to be isolated, cocooned, colonial and ignorant of the Black World. These images from the vibrant fifties Black World, "the rejected society", have been extensively covered in South Africa because I felt it was important that both blacks and whites should see what the Verwoerdian ideology had successfully destroyed." Jurgen Schadeberg
About the photographer:
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931 and, while still in his teens, worked as an apprentice photographer for a German Press Agency in Hamburg. In 1950 he emigrated to South Africa and became Chief Photographer, Picture Editor and Art Director on Drum Magazine.
It was during this time that Jurgen photographed pivotal moments in the lives of South Africans in the fifties. These photographs represent the life and struggle of South Africans during Apartheid and include important figures in South Africa’s history such as Nelson Mandela, Moroka, Walter Sisulu, Yusuf Dadoo, Huddleston and many others who have been documented at key moments such as during The Defiance Campaign of 1952, The Treason Trial of 1958, The Sophiatown Removals and the Sharpeville Funeral in 1960.
Schadeberg's images also capture key personalities and events in the jazz and literary world such as the Sophiatown jazz scene with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi.
Jurgen Schadeberg, sometimes known as “The Father of South African Photography”, is a principle figure in South African and World Photography. His major body of work, which spans 60 years and incorporates a collection of some 100,000 negatives, captures a wealth of timeless and iconic images.
"When I arrived in South Africa in 1950 from Germany I found two societies running in parallel with each other without any communication whatsoever. There was an invisible wall between the two worlds. The Black World, or "Non European World" as described by white society, was culturally and economically rejected by the White World. Only servants and menial workers could enter the White World.
In the fifties The Black World was becoming culturally and politically very dynamic, whereas the White World seemed to me to be isolated, cocooned, colonial and ignorant of the Black World. In the fifties The Black World was becoming culturally and politically very dynamic, whereas the White World seemed to me to be isolated, cocooned, colonial and ignorant of the Black World. These images from the vibrant fifties Black World, "the rejected society", have been extensively covered in South Africa because I felt it was important that both blacks and whites should see what the Verwoerdian ideology had successfully destroyed." Jurgen Schadeberg
About the photographer:
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931 and, while still in his teens, worked as an apprentice photographer for a German Press Agency in Hamburg. In 1950 he emigrated to South Africa and became Chief Photographer, Picture Editor and Art Director on Drum Magazine.
It was during this time that Jurgen photographed pivotal moments in the lives of South Africans in the fifties. These photographs represent the life and struggle of South Africans during Apartheid and include important figures in South Africa’s history such as Nelson Mandela, Moroka, Walter Sisulu, Yusuf Dadoo, Huddleston and many others who have been documented at key moments such as during The Defiance Campaign of 1952, The Treason Trial of 1958, The Sophiatown Removals and the Sharpeville Funeral in 1960.
Schadeberg's images also capture key personalities and events in the jazz and literary world such as the Sophiatown jazz scene with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi.
Jurgen Schadeberg, sometimes known as “The Father of South African Photography”, is a principle figure in South African and World Photography. His major body of work, which spans 60 years and incorporates a collection of some 100,000 negatives, captures a wealth of timeless and iconic images.
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| Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg 1955 |
Friday, August 31, 2012
Upcoming Photographic exhibition: Jurgen Schadeberg and Andrew Barker - 12 Sept 2012
The 1st exhibition for The Month of Photography (MOP) in Cape Town this year will be at Kalk Bay Modern. We will be exhibiting works by Jurgen Schadeberg and Andrew Barker. The show will open on Wednesday 12th September at 6pm and run till 6th October.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Review - Opening of Paul Weinberg Exhibition
From Left: Roger Lucey, Paul Weinberg,
& Max Du Preez.
& Max Du Preez.
The opening of Paul Weinberg Exhibition - Here & There - at Kalk Bay Modern Gallery turned out to be more of an event than a traditional exhibition viewing. Opening his introduction speech to a capacity crowd, Max du Preez spoke of his long standing friendship with Paul Weinberg and the journeys they've shared, and ended by encouraging potential buyers to invest in a 'Weinberg' image as a valuable piece of South Africa’s own historical journey.
Roger Lucey followed with a guitar and lyrical accompaniment to some of Paul’s haunting images from a slide-show projection. This added a new dimension and depth to the visual experience of the evening as the music resonated with you as you absorbed again Paul’s exhibition images. Following on the theme of the journey, Roger's message pointed to the question: How can you know where you’re going, when you don’t know where you’ve been? Paul Weinberg’s exhibition is an invitation to others to gain some insight about the people of our land and possibly embark on a new journey of our own from here to there.
Roger Lucey during his performance
The Paul Weinberg exhibition runs from 7 - 31 October. All the exhibited works are available as signed and edition prints from the gallery. Four of Paul's books are also available for purchase at the gallery; In Search of the San, Travelling Light, Moving Spirit and Then & Now. Prices range from R150 – R300. Should you wish to make enquiries regarding a purchase, please contact the gallery.
KB Modern
Monday, October 5, 2009
Latest Exhibition
‘For most of my adult life I have been a nomad with a camera.I have embarked on journeys that have taken me from the city to the bush and all that lies between. Travels in pursuit of questions, curiosity, or stories I have felt should be told. Some of these stories have finally ended up as books, exhibitions and films.’- Paul Weinberg
I feel somewhat honoured that my first blog write-up for KBM would centre around the very exciting exhibition of photographic works by Paul Weinberg.
And for more on his upcoming exhibition at KBModern, please contact the gallery or follow this blog.
Do you have anything on your mind regarding this exhibition? We would like to hear from you.
Until my next posting,
Cheers
CK
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