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In 1976, Jean-Luc Mylayne made the decision to sell his house, car and possessions in the pursuit of his craft, accompanied only by his wife and collaborator, Mylène. From the environs of Mylayne’s native Amiens, he was drawn to the skies and parched earth of Santa Fe, New Mexico and, more recently, to Fort Davis in Texas, the ‘stages’ for the works shown in this latest exhibition.[...]

Jochen Lempert’s work is a combination of art, scientific research, documentation and conceptualism. He photographs the natural world and its inhabitants. He searches for the animal world in places where its occurrence is not so well evidenced, recording life in a broad diversity of environments, from natural history museums to street life, from remote places to banal objects and situations.[...]

What happens if we directly look at the sun? Our bright star reflections allow us to see things, colors and forms. The illumination produced on the objects makes them visible to our eyes and allows us to establish a multiplicity of relations with them. The excess of illumination, emitted by the sun, bewilders our sight and creates blind fields in our perception. Light is, at the same time, source of clarity and reason for concealment of a vision field.[...]

Esther Woerdehoff Gallery in Paris is pleased to present Loan Nguyen most recent work: Weather and Natural Phenomena. In this exhibition, the Swiss artist addresses concerns regarding climate change.[...]

In his work, Gregory Crewdson explores the eerie side of Americana. Through his skillfully staged photographs, Crewdson shows the surreal side of suburban and rural America in its most sinister form.

Jan Dibbets was born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dibbets trained to be a painter, but turned to the photographic medium in the late 1960s. Harnessing the potential of photography to elucidate the conceptual variables of optics, his witty yet rigorous investigations of the elastic synthesis between object and space resulted in acute queries of vision and reality.[...]

Los Angeles artist James Welling presents new photographs from the “Glass House” series and a video installation “Sun Pavilion” at Regen Projects in Los Angeles.[...]

Marcial Felicano’s most recent work relies on observation and the appropriation of the accidental

John Stezaker’s exhibition at The Approach will combine historical works from the 1980s with new collages.[...]

In her first solo show at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, the Berlin-based artist Johanna Diehl presents works from her series “Displace” – photographs of empty, converted, sometimes destroyed churches and mosques, photographs in the Muslim North and the orthodox Christian south of the divided island Cyprus.[...]