Jan Kempenaers의 새로운 사진집

우리 서점에서도 팔았던 사진집 'Spomenik'의 작가인 Jan Kempenaers의 새로운 책이 나왔다. 역시 출판사는 로마 퍼블리케이션이고 아직 보지는 못했지만 판형이나 디자인이 전작과 유사해보인다. 아래는 책 설명인데 개인적으로는 책 제목인 Picturesques를 통해 유추해보건데, 전형적인 풍경 그림들 (혹은 사진들)에 대한 작가의 통찰이 들어나지 않을까 기대한다.

Book with 45 landscapes and architecture photographs by Jan Kempenaers. This book, together with his previous book Spomenik (Roma Publication 141, 2010) present the results of Kempenaers' practice based research on 'con`temporary picturesque'. Dirk De Meyer, quoted from this book:
Yet, even when gratifying due to their composition and their living tints and endless varieties, Kempenaers photographs of landscapes altered by man forestall the nostalgia that has, over time, become typical for the picturesque. They force the viewer to remain in the present and think about its conditions and its future, and about the forces threatening our environment. Using Gilpin's topoi of the picturesque - which, by now, are themselves "classical" - Kempenaers' images confront us with the picturesque's slightly disconcerting aspects. As one visitor of the 1975 New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House observed, the photographs on display were saying "This is it, kid; take it for its beauty and its ugliness.

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

25 January 2012 - 25 March 2012

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the small press in the 1960s, followed by the correspondence art movement, where artists exchanged art by post, to the DIY zine culture in the 1980s and early 1990s, professional artists have always seized on the format of magazines and postcards as a site for a new kind of art production.

In Numbers is the first survey to define a neglected artform that is neither artists’ book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. The publications are by young artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. The publications are artworks, often idiosyncratic and produced in collaboration, and they do not feature news items, criticism, or reproductions of artworks.

The diversity of the publications is reflected in the backgrounds of the producing artists and in the wide range of techniques, nationalities and media; the survey does not attempt to be exhaustive, but simply to define the genre’s contours and identify certain thematic threads.

In Numbers was previously shown at X-Initiative in New York, an experimental and temporary non-profit arts initiative that ran from March 2009 to February 2010. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, edited by Philip Aarons and Andrew Roth (New York: PPP Editions, 2010). The book documents the history of over 60 publications and includes essays and interviews by experts, among them Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princethal and William S Wilson.

In Numbers is presented with special thanks to Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons

Unseen Power of The Book Society

2011.11.24 at Munlae Art Factory by Hankil Ryu

미디어버스 블로그 재오픈!

그동안 방치했던 블로그에 신경을 좀 써주기로 했다. 미디어버스 사이트를 날려먹고 복구를 하고 있는데 그러다 보니 블로그라도 좀 운영을 해야겠다 싶어서이다. 그리고 트위터 140자로는 무언가 한계도 있는 것 같고.. 저희 미디어버스 망한 것 아닙니다!

Ryu Hankil and Lo Wie @ Dotolim

류한길 Ryu Hankil(paper, electronics), 로 위에 Lo Wie(paper, writing) duo