Miles Aldridge's new exhibition Short Breaths opens at Brancolini Grimaldi TOMORROW !

Come see Miles Aldridge's new work at Brancolini Grimaldi tomorrow. 

Miles Aldridge and Isabella Brancolini

Short Breaths opens on

Thursday July 11th, 7-9 pm

43-44 Albemarle Street
W1S 4JJ London
london@brancolinigrimaldi.com

1st Floor /above the post office


See you there !

Dan Holdsworth included in Alt. +1000/Festival de la Photographie

Dan Holdsworth's Salt Lake City from the latest series Transmission is presented at the Festival de la Photographie - Alt. +1000 in Rossiniere curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer.

Dan Holdsworth, Salt Lake City from Transmission

The Festival runs from July 12th to September 22nd, 2013.

Opening: July 13th, 2013 at 5pm

Route de la Placette 9 CH-1658 Rossiniere Switzerland

www.plus1000.ch



Other artists included: Nicolas Crispini, Georg Gerster, Pablo Lopez Luz, Maanantai Collective, Esther Mathis, Simon Norfolk, Cyril Porchet, Valentina surer, Penelope Umbrico, Wang Li, Chung-Ang University

Massimo Vitali - New Work

Due Sorelle Motor Boats, 2011  C-print,  240 x 320 cm

18 NOVEMBER 2011 – 28 JANUARY 2012

Massimo Vitali will unveil a striking new collection of photographs in his first UK solo exhibition since 1997 on 18 November at Brancolini Grimaldi.

Vitali has become one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers worldwide, renowned for his large colour prints depicting the crowded beaches and shorelines of the Mediterranean Sea. However, this new series focuses on the natural – rocks, cliffs, waterfalls, caves and quarries. Holidaymakers have been reduced to mere dots, hovering uncomfortably on the shore, or taking shelter in the shadow of monumental natural landmarks. Seen from such a distance, these crowds mimic colonies of mammals – huddles of seals or penguins - washed up on the rocks. The power of nature comes to the fore – in one image people are literally replaced by crashing waves as the tide moves in. Everything is now in flux and the old certainties have been washed away. Our frailty in the face of such power is thrown into focus and we are forced to confront our mortality and our inability to resist the forces of nature.

Vitali started his series of large format photographs at a specific moment in Italian history: 1994, the year in which Berlusconi came to power. He has said of this moment, “I wanted to look into the faces of the people that voted for Berlusconi and see if I could understand why. My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations, but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.” For Vitali, the beach was a place where the mundane and everyday merges with natural beauty, and where he could confront Italians in a place of vulnerability. The images reflect a sense of freedom, even hedonism, but also a sense of conformity and even banality. In the background, industrial buildings such as factories and warehouses loom, a reminder that the escape to nature is temporary and artificial.

Over the last 15 years, the subtle shift in Vitali’s work from crowds to sparsely populated landscapes, seems an attempt to understand how we can avoid colonising that which makes our environment meaningful and balanced, and an almost Romantic vision of the sublime power of nature.

About the artist:

Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944. After studying photography at the London School of Printing he worked as a photojournalist in the early sixties and enjoyed a career in cinematography for television and cinema in the 1980s. His training in cinematography had a major influence on the way he approached photography when he returned to it in the mid 90s, particularly in the high level of technical precision he demanded in his image-making. After working with large format photography in 1993, Vitali commenced his series of Italian beach panoramas in 1995, coinciding with a period of dramatic political change in Italy. Since then he had major solo exhibitions around the world and his prints are included in various major international collections. Massimo Vitali currently lives and works in Lucca, Italy, and in Berlin, Germany.

Roy Arden - The Homosexual Who Wrecked an Empire

Life's Rich Tapestry, 2009

Roy Arden

The Homosexual Who Wrecked an Empire

7 October - 12 November, 2011

Brancolini Grimaldi is delighted to announce Roy Arden's first solo exhibition in London; a Wunderkammer of new work including collages, drawings, paintings, sculpture and video. One of Canada’s most respected artists, Arden is perhaps most well known in the UK for his photographic work from the 1990s that depicted the changing urban landscape o...f Vancouver as the city was being transformed by re-development with the boom in real estate. Arden has described these photographs works “...as battle scenes, like war landscapes, but it’s the economic war,”

Over the last decade Arden has widened his artistic practice to include collages, videos, paintings, sculpture and web-based projects. However, even though his working practice is becoming more diverse, certain themes continue to run though his work. These are history, modernity and the archive. Arden has created his own immense archive of images, that he has collected from newspapers, magazines and the internet that he continually uses in his different series of works. One work in particular, the web-based project made in 2004 entitled The World as Will and Representation, included over 28,000 jpegs, and is now recognized as a seminal work.

Driven by a personal necessity, Arden delves into the trash heap of history for images that reveal something about how and why we arrived at our present predicament. Arden’s paper collages are intimate in scale and seem to channel the history of collage while entertaining various subjects through their kaleidoscope of cut and torn fragments. His digital collages are generally more orderly and speak of the need to archive and its attendant folly. Arden’s more recent paintings and drawings present singular images in a graphic style similar to early Pop Art but always with critical intent. His recent sculptures, constructed from discarded, often rusty objects, appear as though they are the idiosyncratic creations of a bricoleur or rag & bone man with spare time and imagination. This exhibition will also premiere a new video projection entitled Jalopy (2011) which features an antique wind-up Model A Ford toy performing a seemingly demonic routine.

Roy Arden was born in Vancouver in 1957. He completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree under Jeff Wall at the University of British Columbia in 1990. His work can be found in numerous public collections in North America and Europe, including The National Gallery of Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. He has exhibited in dozens of international exhibitions from New York to Sharjah and Berlin to Sydney. In 2007 the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a survey show of his work covering the period 1981-2007. His last exhibition in the UK was a survey of works from 1985-2000 at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 2006.

Arden’s work can be viewed on his website at www.royarden.com and his image blog at www.royarden.com/blog/index.php

For more images from the exhibition go to: http://www.brancolinigrimaldi.com/section/artists/roy-arden/images

Sophy Rickett: Auditorium and selected works

Sophy Rickett: Auditorium and selected works

Private view: Wednesday 6 July 7–9pm

Exhibition: 7 July – 27 August