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The Myth of the Eternal Return is a show which explores the concept of the loop, or the closed cycle. The exhibition combines various works which, each in a distinctive way, are organised around the idea of the loop. Still, while the earlier works, such as Phoenix, were looped as a playful and formal experiment, the later projects, such as The Alder King or The Bunker, acquire a social, environmental or even political context. As if the amusing and intellectually stimulating form of the closed cycle stopped from being a mere game, to enter the realm of reality.

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The Myth of the Eternal Return
Opening : Saturday November 26, 2022 at 12:00
Show open until January 28, 2023

Alarcon Criado gallery
Velarde 941001 Sevilla, Spain
info@alarconcriado.com
Phone: +34 954 22 16 13

The Le Corbusier Foundation presents the exhibition LCAXN by Nicolas Grospierre, architectural photographer awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2008.

Opening of Nelly Agassi and Nicolas Grospierre exhibition Longue durée, in the frame of Warsaw Gallery Weekend, September 20-22, 2019

Pola Magnetyczne,
Londyńska 13,
03-921, Warsaw, Poland

In Longue durée, Nelly Agassi and Nicolas Grospierre develop a visual dialogue which revolves around time, architecture, and the physical absence of light. “Longue durée” – the long run – should be seen as a view on things, perceived over a long period of time, and focusing on the longstanding and imperceptibly slow changing events and their consequences, and understood as perhaps the most fundamental aspects of reality.

In Heliography, Nicolas Grospierre’s new body of works, the photographer abandons one of his favourite topics, architecture, to deliver works that could be seen as the antithesis of Cartier Bressons’s concept of “decisive moment”. It is indeed the long perspective that is essential in Heliography, which could be described as photography without film, without camera, and even without paper: geometric patterns created by the sun over colorful velvet canvases, exposed over a period of five months.

The long run is equally essential in Nelly Agassi’s practice, and her re-interpretation of architecture. In Longue durée, Nelly Agassi deals with the the biography of the building housing the Pola Magnetyczne gallery. Plein-Air, one of her minimalist yet masterful interventions, revives architectural elements once integral to the house, and which have disappeared: the windows of the gallery space. Marking the absence of these windows allows her to connect with the long history of the house and explore erasure, preservation, and architecture’s capacity to change and repurpose by its users and by time, while at the same time echoing Grospierre’s Heliography, by referring to the absence/presence of light which the window allow, and which is fundamental in Grospierre’s works.

Born out of the visual exchange between two autonomous artistic sensitivities, Longue durée eventually hints at notions of time, memory and immanent change, often imperceptible to the naked eye.

Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn.

Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Sergio Fazenda Rodrigues

MAAT
Museum Art Architecture Technology
Av. Brasília, Central Tejo, 1300-598 Lisboa

Opening: March 19 at 7 PM
On show until August 19, 2019

Fiction and Fabrication gathers nearly 50 artists who build and manipulate images of architectural objects and spaces. Marking 30 years since Photoshop was invented, and digital tools invaded photographic production, this exhibition focuses on the imagery of architecture as a central theme to an expanded practice of photography in contemporary art. From the seminal works of Andreas Gurski, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall or Thomas Demand to the fictional creations of Beate Gütschow, Oliver Boberg or Isabel Brison, the show offers a panorama of architectural photography that evades objective approaches and favours fictionalised takes on reality between cinematic gazes, image deconstruction and more politicised narratives. At a time when digital tools preside over the making of architectural images for media consumption, fictions stemming from the art world appear here as a critical alternative that questions and expands the concept of architecture.Participant artists:
Doug Aitken, Olivier Boberg, Isabel Brison, Rita Sobral Campos, James Casabere, André Cepeda, David Claerbout, Celine Condorelli, Mafalda Marques Correia, Gregory Crewdson, Hans Op de Beeck, Mónica de Miranda, Thomas Demand, Filip Dujardin, Roland Fischer, Carlos Garaicoa, Dionisio Gonzalez, Nicolas Grospierre, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Patrick Hamilton, Sabine Hornig, Veronika Kellndorfer, Lucia Koch, Aglaia Konrad, Jonathan Lewis, Inês Lombardi, Tatiana Macedo, Edgar Martins, Antoni Muntadas, Anja Niemi, Erwin Olaf, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bas Princen, Olivier Ratsi, Teresa Braula Reis, Nick Relph, Martha Rossler, Thomas Ruff, Philip Schaerer, Evandro Soares, Hanna Starkey, Gerold Tagwerker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pedro Tudela, Jeff Wall, James Welling.

OPENING A Subjective Atlas of Modern Architecture, March 1st, 2019, in Warsaw’s Fort Institute of Photography.

Instytut Fotografii Fort

Published by Prestel (London), Modern Spaces complements a previous opus, Modern Forms, but it is this time focused exclusively on modern interior design. As in Modern Forms, the photographs are organised neither chronologically nor geographically, but formally, and they therefore create a visual flow of shapes and designs. With the earliest photographs taken in 2004, this album is a sum of 15 years’ work on modernist interiors.

Published by Prestel (London), Modern Spaces complements a previous opus, Modern Forms, but it is this time focused exclusively on modern interior design. As in Modern Forms, the photographs are organised neither chronologically nor geographically, but formally, and they therefore create a visual flow of shapes and designs. With the earliest photographs taken in 2004, this album is a sum of 15 years’ work on modernist interiors.