FotoFest 2012 Biennial : Contemporary Russian Photography

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Description

FOTOFEST INTERNATIONAL | www.fotofest.orgFor Information and Visuals: Vinod Hopson, Press Coordinator, 713.223.5522 ext 26, [e-mail] Reina-Longoria or Rachel Patall-David, Blue Medium, 212.675.1800, [e-mail] / [e-mail] Pirogov, Natasha, from the series The Other Shore, 2009-2011. Courtesy of the artistFor Immediate Release:FotoFest 2012 Biennial Contemporary Russian PhotographyExhibitions, International Fine Print Auction, Collectors Programs March 16 – April 29, 2012Houston, Texas, U.S.A.HOUSTON, TEXAS, DECEMBER 8, 2011 – Russian artists, curators, art collectors and directors from leading Moscow art and news organizations will participate in the FotoFest 2012 Biennial, the 14th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art, taking place March 16 through April 29, 2012 in locations throughout Houston, Texas. Three new exhibitions spanning over fifty years of modern and contemporary Russian photography will be the centerpiece of the Biennial.“FotoFest 2012 will be one of the largest gatherings for Russian art photography in the U.S.,” says FotoFest Artistic Director and Senior Curator Wendy Watriss. “The Biennial exhibitions on Contemporary Russian Photography will present over 150 photographers from the 1960s to the present.

Sujets

• Exposition
• Photographie
• États-Unis
• Russie
• Époque contemporaine
• Texas
• Houston
• 2012

Informations

• Publié par: Photophile-toi
• Publié le: 18 janvier 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 209
• Langue: Français

Extrait

FOTOFEST NTERNATONA  otoesto Fo notion n iss ino Hoson, ess Coointo, 12222 et 2, essotoesto Eiet Reinonoi o Re tDi, Be Mei, 212100, eieteeio  eeeio

ikita irogo,Natasha, from the seriesThe Other Shore, . ourtes of the artist

Fo eite Reese FotoFest  Bienni Contemporary Russian Photography Eiitions, ntention Fine int Ation, Coetos os

M  – Ai ,  Hoston, Tes, USA

HOUSTON, TEXAS, DECEMBER 8,  –Russian artists, curators, art collectors and directors from leading Moscow art and news organizations will participate in theFotoFest 2012 Bienni, te 1t ntention Bienni o oto n otoRete At, taking placeM 1 to Ai 2, 2012in locations throughoutHoston, Tes. Three new exhibitions spanninges o oen n onteo Rssin otooe fit will be the centerpiece of the Biennial.

“FotoFest  will be one of the largest gatherings for Russian art photograph in the ..,” sas FotoFest rtistic irector and enior uratoren tiss. “The Biennial exhibitions onContemporary Russian Photographywill present oer  photographers from the s to the present. The will include intage works from a ke modernist period in Russian photograph that is almost unknown toda, as well as some of the great experimental work from the erestroika period of reform and the current generation of oung photographic artists.”

irectors of Moscow’se Cente o Conteo Cte, collectors from theiee Botes Cente o otoin Moscow, ournalists from Russia’s leading news and information agencRA Noostiand other leading art and online media sources, and Russian artists and curators will be part of the FotoFest  Biennial.

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“The Russian photograph programs that FotoFest plans for its  Biennial are er important,” sasDs o, one o te is Fontion n e Cente o Conteo Cte“The exhibitions will showcase Russian artists that are unknown to most of the world, and the presence of their work in the Fine rint uction will introduce Russian art photograph to international collectors. Bringing serious international attention to contemporar artists from Russia is one of the main goals of the ris Foundation and what we hope to achiee with arage ” .

n addition to the exhibitions, FotoFest’s  tnnoietn Fine int Ation, taking placeTes, M 20, 2012, will present works handpicked b the FotoFest curators and their Russian curatorial partners to highlight important Russian intage and contemporar works. The auction will include prints b oer  leading Russian artists from the s to the present. Most of the auction works are being made aailable to .. and nternational collectors for the first time. The Russian artists selected for the nternational Fine rint uction are also featured in the Biennial exhibitions. 

“ith the nternational Fine rint uction, FotoFest is opening a new market for important but unknown works from Russia,” sasAnne ies Te, s n n ot H C o    s t t o o  n   . o    T  he    o  t u o c  ti  o  n  i  s  l   e  d t   t b   s Me Fo eAstni e   e ineoi,S teese BDeni mzti u ,nhcelexe    uo de ,itlt  art the ofrtestsi esient, He o Detent, otos, Sote’s Ne o.

oncurrent with FotoFest’s own exhibitions of ontemporar Russian hotograph, oer  independent spaces in ouston will participate in the  Biennial with exhibitions and programs of photograph. mong the articipating paces are the Museum of Fine rts, ouston the Menil ollection the tation Museum of rt and ouston enter for hotograph. articipating commercial galleries include e antos aller, ohn lear aller, Mood aller and nman aller. ix articipating paces will be presenting the work of Russian artists, including the Blaffer rt Museum at the niersit of ouston, which will present nton inzburg’sAt the Back of the North Wind, an installation work which premiered at this ear’s enice Biennale.

 full list of artists, details on the FotoFest  xhibitions, and the list of works in the nternational Fine rint uction will be made aailable in anuar .

FOTOFEST AND RUSSAN HOTORAH FotoFest’s Russian uratorial partners areEen Beene, in Ce n Nti Tso. Mr. Berezner, head of the“n Sot o oto in Rssi” oet, is Fontion, Moso, and r. hmrea, enior Researcher at theRssin Ae o Fine Ats, hae written extensiel on Russian photograph. Ms. Tarasoa has written and worked on cultural affairs for Russian media oer a number of ears. r. hmrea and Ms. Tarasoa also work with the “n upport of hotograph in Russia” roect of the ris Foundation. The team has curated and presented oer  exhibitions of historical and contemporar Russian artists.

Russian artists and curators, man from FotoFest’s exhibitions, will also participate in the Biennial’s international portfolio reiew program,Te Meetin ebrings together  professional reiewers from  countries and oer , which artists from across the globe.

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The  Biennial Russian programs are part of FotoFest’s longterm inolement with Russian photograph. Most recentl, FotoFest and its Russian partners initiated Russia’s first international portfolio reiew,otoio Reie Rssi, Ast 2011 www.portfolioreiewrussia.com. osponsoredthe arage enter for ontemporar ulture, the ris and hosted b Foundation, founded b asha hukoa in , R, the Russian tate Museum and xhibition enter and R oosti, the eent was considered an unualified success, bringing the work of Russian artists to  leading art professionals from  countries and generating significant press coerage both inside Russia and around the world.

FotoFest, along with its Russian colleagues, hae organized exchanges and exhibitions of Russian artists and artwork for oer a decade. n , FotoFest presented an exhibition of historic Russian ictorialist photographers from the late th and earl th centuries as part of its  Biennial. Two ears later, FotoFest took artists and fie photograph exhibitions, including the wellknown  memorial exhibitionHere is New York, to the Russian cities of amara, Moscow and Togliatti. eeral Russian artists, including the art collectie F, hae been featured at the FotoFest  and  Biennials.

FOTOFEST  BENNA UBCATONS  RUSSAN HOTORAH The FotoFest  Biennial atalogue will be copublished withSit isin in Aste. The  page, two olume atalogue will feature more than  fullcolor images and essas b Russian urators gen Berezner and rina hmrea on the histor of contemporar Russian photograph from the reemergence and eolution of the personal oice in Russian photograph in the late s and the end of talinism through the erestroika ears into the present. The FotoFest  Biennial atalogue will be aailable late Februar .

 hardcoer book on FotoFest’smpteonC yraro Russian Photoraphyexhibitions will be aailable in late spring . This book will also be copublished with chilt ublishing and will be designed b esigns and enk an ssen, who hae preiousl produced books for the Museum of Fine rts, ouston Museum of the it of ew ork and Museo de rte atinamericano de Buenos ires. FOTOFEST  BENNA RAND OENN The FotoFest  Biennial rand pening, Frida on March ,  at FotoFest eaduarters in owntown, is a free public celebration expected to be attended b oer , people. FotoFest eaduarters is the erge etruhin,Three Saiors’s Striped ests, . ourtes of the artist site of one of the three principal exhibitions of the  Biennial. uests at the rand pening will include man of the featured Russian artists, FotoFest  Biennial curators, Russian ponsors and public officials, international curators and artists participating in Biennial programs, ciic, business and cultural leaders and member of the general public. pening Receptions for the other principal FotoFest Biennial Russian exhibitions occur oer the course of the following weeks and will be attended b featured artists and curators. FOTOFEST  BENNA COECTORS EENTS n conunction with the uction and the exhibitions, FotoFest is sponsoring three das of special programs for  isitors and photograph collectors, from March , . The program will include curatorial tours of the  Biennial Russian exhibitions a priate iewing of highlights from the collection of the Museum of Fine rts, ouston MF with curator nne ilkes Tucker and a special preiew of her much anticipatedPhotWaryhparoexhibition scheduled for fall  uratorial tour of the MF exhibitiontopiaystopia, curated b asufumi akamori, MF ssistant urator of hotograph cocktail receptions at priate collectors’ homes and a panel discussion on the art market and collecting prints and books. For information on ollector’s eents please contact FotoFest Fine rint uction oordinator iz ickersham at proectsfotofest.org or .. ext .

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ABOUT FOTOFEST NTERNATONA   Founded in  and based in ouston, Texas, FotoFest is a nonprofit organization promoting photographic arts and education. FotoFest is recognized for its discoer and presentation of important talent, contemporar and historical, from around the world, its commitment to presenting important social ideas through the photographic arts, its groundbreaking exhibitions and its portfolio reiew program, The nternational Meeting lace. FotoFest has curated and commissioned exhibitions of photobased art from atin merica, sia, urope, the Middle ast and orth frica. n addition to ear round art exhibitions and programming, FotoFest’s schoolbased education program, iterac Through hotograph, uses photograph to stimulate isual literac, writing and analtical thinking.

The FotoFest Biennial is the first international Biennial of hotograph and hotorelated rt in the nited tates. Through the FotoFest Biennial and its earround art programs, FotoFest is known as a platform for rt and deas, combining museumualit art with important social and aesthetic issues. FotoFest curated exhibitions gie priorit to the works of important but littleknown photographic artists from the .. and around the world. FotoFest has pioneered the format for the international portfolio reiew program for photographic artists that hae been emulated around the world. t was the basis for the  ortfolio Reiew Russia eent.

FOTOFEST  BENNA SONSORS as of ecember ,  The ouston ndowment, nc The ullen Foundation The Brown Foundation, nc The illiam tamps Farish Fund ational ndowment for the rts The it of ouston through the ouston rts lliance  Morgan hase, oubleTree b ilton otel ouston owntown Texas ommission for the rts The ortham Foundation merican ociet of Media hotographers M land nternet olutions exaroup ine treet tudios artsBrookfieldBrookfield ffice roperties FotoFest Board of irectors and ndiidual ontributors.

Rssin tnes arage enter for ontemporar ulture the ris Foundation R tate enter for Museums and xhibitions of the Ministr of ulture of the Russian Federation and R oosti.

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