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Myritza Castillo

dawire — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:46 +0000

Myritza Castillo works within a very precise and calculated set-stage offering an often disjointed narrative that straddles the theatrical with the performative. Working mostly with photography and video, Castillo constructs and seemingly deconstructs narrative sequences that through pictorial motifs display very specific moments in time.[...]

Maria Friberg

dawire — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:01:50 +0000

Transmission (2010) is a film and photographic series by Swedish artist Maria Friberg that deals with concepts of masculinity, power and progress. For this project, Friberg has photographed a series of automobiles from underneath to reveal some of their mechanical components.

Michael Wolf

dawire — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:00:53 +0000

In a diverse array of photographic projects Michael Wolf explores the complex cultural identities of China and Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1995.

Walter Niedermayr

dawire — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:00:43 +0000

Italian based photographer Walter Niedermayr chooses to photograph alpine landscapes that express the relationship between man and nature. Sometimes climbing all day to reach the desired altitude, Niedermayr presents viewers with a panoramic view of mountains reminiscent of the tradition of Germainic Romantic painting and the work of Caspar David Friedrich.[...]

Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman Gallery

dawire — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:00:01 +0000

Thomas Struth (1954, Geldern) is mostly known for his photographs of urban structures of postwar Germany and later on for exploring intimate social structures through the family portrait. For his most recent show at Marian Goodman Gallery, Struth takes viewers inside industrial and scientific structures of technological production such as pharmaceutical plants, space stations, nuclear facilities and physics institutes.[...]

Francesca Woodman

dawire — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:32:29 +0000

Francesca Woodman was without a doubt one of the most influential photographers of the 20^th century, paving the way for other artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Cindy Sherman.[...]

Nicolas Moulin

dawire — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:09:08 +0000

Berlin-based artist Nicolas Moulin's photographs presents us with quite a strange world; deserted landscape where bizarre structures hover over the natural world and seemingly become an extension of it. Some resemble World War II bunkers or even the last remains of a lost world, emphasizing the ways we relate to our immediate surroundings, be them real or imaginary.[...]

Isidro Blasco

dawire — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:00:35 +0000

Isidro Blasco uses digital photography and humble building materials to assemble three-dimensional images that reconstruct interior spaces, private or domestic and outdoor environments.[...]

Damián Ucieda Cortés

dawire — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:00:44 +0000

Damián Ucieda Cortés gives us a committed look in his photographs, in which the staging of the characters, lighting and marking of the author are key to building a parallel and disturbing "trueth", invaded by enigmas and questions unresolved.[...]

Christto Sanz

dawire — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:00:57 +0000

Through photography and video, Christto Sanz explores the movable notion of the self and obsessive behaviors. Drawing from Sigmund Freud and Westphal and Shneider, his work is an approximation to the psychoanalytical through the self-portrait, where the artist is subjected to his own vulnerabilities.[...]