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Cardi Gallery Milan opens an exhibition of works by Mimmo Paladino
Installation view. Photo: Carlo Vannini. Courtesy Cardi Gallery Milan.
MILAN
.- Unperturbed eternal men, made of terracotta made by juxtaposing fragments coming from the same matrix but combined differently, each with the unique color of the clay used: I Dormienti [The Sleepers] by Mimmo Paladino were born in the late Nineties, when the artist first exhibited them in Poggibonsi (1998) as part of the Arte all Arte exhibition. In 2000 he decided to cast them in bronze for the permanent installation at the Fonte delle Fate (Poggibonsi). Other terracotta Sleepers and Crocodiles were created for the great exhibition in the underground rooms of the Roundhouse in London (1999), in dialogue with a sound system specifically designed by the British musician, composer, and producer Brian Eno.
Exhibition features a broad selection of lens-based works by local and international artists
Vikky Alexander, Obsession, 1983, silver gelatin print, vinyl type, coloured Plexiglas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the artist.
VANCOUVER
.-The Vancouver Art Gallery opened Pictures and Promises in collaboration with Capture Photography Festival. Drawn from the Vancouver Art Gallerys rich photographic holdings. Pictures and Promises, focuses on lens-based works that employ the structures, conventions and formal qualities used in commercial culture, mass media, fashion and advertising. The works then deploy these strategies to play on collective understandings of the world around us and to investigate the iconography of consumerism.
MFA Boston receives gift of 48 Henryk Ross photographs depicting life inside a World War II Jewish Ghetto
Henryk Ross (Polish, 19101991), Untitled from Litzmann (Lodz) Ghetto, 19401945. Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Howard Greenberg in honor of Jacques Preis. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS
.-The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a gift of 48 photographs by Henryk Ross (19101991), which offer an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside Polands Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. Donated to the MFA by collector Howard Greenberg, the group of gelatin silver prints was originally given directly by Ross to Lova Szmuszkowicz, later Leon Sutton (19092007), a fellow survivor of the Lodz Ghetto who brought them to the U.S. when he immigrated to New York City in 1947. The prints represent a significant range of both official images, which Ross took as a photographer for the ghettos Department of Statistics, and the unofficial photograph