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Morphing Alexander, Erwin Olaf for Hermitage Amsterdam
27 August 2010
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf was asked to make photographic interpretations of Alexander the Great (356 BC – 323 BC, king from 336 BC), the exhibition on view at Hermitage Amsterdam.
By interlacing objects from the exhibition with photographs of an actual model, Olaf has succeeded in skilfully conveying Alexander’s character traits and his handsome features, visualizing the immortal Alexander.
The exhibition The Immortal Alexander the Great will be on view from 18 September 2010 until 18 March 2011 in the Hermitage Amsterdam, with over 350 masterpieces, including the famous Gonzaga cameo from the State Museum the Hermitage in St Petersburg (number 46).
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Carolein Smit in collection Victoria & Albert Museum
19 May 2010
At Collect art fair in London, hold recently in May, Victoria & Albert Museum acquired for their collection the work Rakker with golden tears by Carolein Smit. Earlier the V&A acquired Child (2007) and a Rat (2004) by Smit.
The V&A is the greatest museum of art and design, a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3,000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
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Rob Hornstra wins New York Photo Book Award 2010
16 May 2010
May 14th, in New York, Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen won the New York Photo Book Award 2010 for the annual publication Sanatorium part of The Sochi Project.
The New York Photo Book Award is one of the twelve major awards given. Since their inception, the New York Photo Awards have consistently surpassed all expectations in terms of the quality, reach, and number of submissions received (over 3,000 submissions and 15,000 images were received last year, from more than 90 countries worldwide). A limited number of copies is still available for donators of The Sochi Project.
http://www.thesochiproject.org
http://www.nyphotofestival.com/site/
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The Sochi Project nominated for Dutch Doc Award
11 May 2010
Rob Hornstra & Arnold van Bruggen have been nominated in the category for innovation/experiment. The critical jury selected their work from a long list of 140 works.
Two other nominees in this category are Stephanie Grätz with Surfing Views, a Couchsurfing Directory and Willem Popelier with Rejected Identities. The Dutch Doc Award is an initiative of the Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst (Fonds BKVB) and FOTODOK. The winning award is revealed on June 2, 2010.
www.dutchdocaward.nl
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Erwin Olaf most noticeable photographer of The Netherlands
10 May 2010
In Dutch national business and newsmagazine Elsevier, artist Erwin Olaf has been rankend as the number one most noticeable photographer of the Netherlands. The second most noticeable photographer is Ruud van Empel. Photographer Rineke Dijkstra comes in third, Hellen van Meene occupies the fourth place in the ranking.
The rankinglist of Elsevier comes out every year under the guidance of art critic Riki Simons. The ranking of the artists is based upon the amount of solo- and group shows in galleries, museums, cultural institutions, in the Netherlands as well as abroad and, on the major art international art fairs, magazines, auctions and publications.
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Magnum Photographer Alec Soth in Utrecht
20 April 2010
Tuesday 11 May Alec Soth will be speaking about his work at the debatingcentre Tumultzaal, Domplein 5 in Utrecht, at 8 p.m. Sold out!!
From May 6 till June 6, 2010 his works from the series Dog Days, Bogotá are on show at Flatland Gallery.
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Oleg Dou: Mention for Best Young Artist
07 March 2010
THE 4th INTERNATIONAL ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE was awarded on March 6, in Venice. During the gala evening artist Oleg Dou (Moscow, 1983) was awarded 'Mention for Best Young Artist' in the Photography Art Section and the Special Prize, both for his work 'IRA’S TEARS', 2008.
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Premiere documentary ‘Schoonheid en Dood’ (Carolein Smit)
03 March 2010
Documentary ‘Schoonheid en Dood’ (Beauty and Death) about artist Carolein Smit will premiere on March 27, at the International Film Festival Breda. The film closely follows Carolein Smit (1969) at work. Recently she won the oeuvre award of the city of Breda. ‘Schoonheid en Dood’ was produced by Movedmedia and directed by Dagmar Brendecke (Arte).
Date: March 27, at 14.30 hour, filmtheater Mustsee Breda.
More info: Movedmedia
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DOUBLE TAKE by JOHAN GRIMONPREZ Black Pearl Award 2009
03 February 2010
Written & directed by artist Johan Grimonprez, Double Take garnered the Black Pearl Award for Best Documentary Director. The film praised in the international press as ‘a pathological discourse, which would make Hitchcock himself feel dizzy!’, and acclaimed by The New York Times as ‘the most intellectually agile of this year’s crop of films!’, DOUBLE TAKE was also acquired by the TATE MODERN (London).
After Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi, Double Take is now in US premiere at the Sundance Festival.
DOUBLE TAKE casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period.
www.doubletakefilm.com
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Carolein Smit receives Culture Award of Breda!
22 January 2010
Flatland Gallery is very proud to announce that on January 22, 2010 Carolein Smit received from the City of breda the Culture Award for her extensive oeuvre. The award includes a prize of 7500 euro for the artist.
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