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The Many Faces of Tom Butler 17 FREE ALTERED STATES NOW PHOTOGRAPHY THE MANY FACES OF TOM BUTLER 17 1 STATE 11 www.state-media.com RYG GALLERY ad_SinglePage.pdf 1 25/03/2015 16:58 C M Y CM MY CY Club, London, 1993 Men’s Cobden Working Richards, Young,Keith Richard CMY K RICHARD YOUNG GALLERY 4 Holland Street, London W8 4LT | www.richardyounggallery.co.uk E-M5 Mark II *CIPA Standards as of 12/2014 Standards *CIPA YOU ARE FREE Follow your creative visions with the new OM-D E-M5 Mark II. Capture spur-of-the-moment photos and movies in breathtakingly clear quality thanks to the world’s most powerful 5-axis image stabilisation*. This OM-D is also ready to go wherever you go, in any situation. The compact build won’t weigh you down, while the robust construction is set for taking on the elements: dust, splashes and freezing temperatures. Freedom has never felt so free – with the OLYMPUS OM-D. Find out more at your local dealer or visit olympus.co.uk 01 COVER v2 .indd 1 25/03/2015 16:23 INFOCUS SEAN SCULLY IMAGE & TEXT CARLA BOREL THROUGHOUT HIS 40 year career, Sean Scully has become widely recognised as one of the giants of contemporary abstract painting. Twice nominated for the Turner Prize, he was elected a Royal Academician in 2013, his work is in museum collections worldwide, and a retrospective of his paintings opened in Shanghai in November 2014, travelling to Beijing in February 2015. Yet, in recent years, Scully often mentions that his greatest achievement is his son, Oisín, born in 2009, with his wife, the painter Liliane Tomasko. He visibly lights up when speaking about him, and the child’s presence is felt in the studio, with his toys scattered around the paint pots. Their upbringings couldn’t have been more different. Scully was born in Ireland in 1945, his family moved to London when he was five, and he had a very poor childhood. ‘I grew up with nothing. Oisín has everything.’ Beginning his career in London in the late ‘60s, studying at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle University, Scully moved to New York in 1975, making his name in the art world throughout the ‘80s. He now splits his time between New York, Barcelona and the Bavarian countryside, and continues his invigoration of the abstract with the everyday. Recent Landline paintings in the New York studio combine horizontal bands and extraordinary colours that seem to sing and rejoice. Scully often mentions the angel on his shoulder while he is painting. He says that he sings to his son as a way of prayer, as a recharging of the soul. ‘And it’s a way of me showing gratitude for my paintings.’ >> EDITORIAL CONTENTS l 17 THERE IS A fight back by those with a serious appreciation of photography as a fine art. To counter the tsunami of happy snaps currently saturating every possible medium, London has two major events for spring that will redress the balance and demonstrate the yawning gap between a photograph and a great photograph. At least in theory. The photography world has not at all been immune to the fads of fashion and populist gimmickry that so curse the art business. The Sony World Photography Awards – with a special presentation of that outstanding snapper, Elliott Erwitt – will showcase a plethora of the best of the best images from around the globe at Somerset House (24 April – 10 May). This venue is fast establishing itself as the key London location for photography exhibitions and seems able to accommodate both major events and smaller, non-commercial shows. A good example would be the recent Syngenta Photography Award exhibition (until 10 April) that addressed the spoilage of the planet and squandered resources. The 42 photographers from 21 countries DAFYDD JONES GEAR & GIZMOS represented the Scarcity-Waste theme in thought-provoking ways. Also at Adventures out in Art Land We Liked it, So Will You Somerset House will be the latest attempt to establish a prominent photo-fair 8 12 in the capital. Photo London (21-24 May) aims to create a major international photography fair with around 70 international exhibitors selected from specialist galleries and publishers. Ancillary events will be supported by the LUMA Foundation (a Zurich-based non-profit organisation). The whole gamut of photographic practice from vintage to contemporary will be embraced, including a display of hidden treasures from the V&A’s vast photographic archives. This time, Candlestar, a ‘cultural consultancy’ experienced in the field of photography and the arts, looks to have the best chance of succeeding where previous attempts have failed to capture the imagination of the trade or visitor. Candlestar is also behind the annual Prix Pictet which rewards photography dealing with issues of sustainability. Photo London wants to create the ‘Frieze Effect’ for photography in London, with some of the gloss of Paris Photo. Tate Modern also plans to host a photography book fair as a parallel activity. BERLIN VINTAGE COVER IMAGE | ISSUE 17 14 A Private Collection TOM BUTLER Geoeb, 2014 Gouache on Albumen print 16.5x10cm © Tom Butler / Courtesy Charlie Smith Gallery, London TOM BUTLER (b. 1979) took degrees from Southampton University and Chelsea College of Art and a MFA Sculpture at the Slade. His signature works are the expanding series of manipulated Victorian cabinet cards. Asked if there was a limit to these unique editions, Butler says not. ‘I realised they were becoming a population or citizenship and more than just an ongoing series of characters. I started imagining an island (of sorts) where they could exist. Later I read H.G. Wells’ Island of Dr Moreau, where a shipwrecked man is rescued on the shores of a mysterious island populated with beast-men.’ Read more on page 18. ELLIOT ERWITT PRIVATE VIEW 20 Grand Master in London 22 Art in other places EDITOR DESIGN DIRECTOR 04 IN FOCUS 06 SNAPSHOTS 18 COVER FEATURE: TOM BUTLER Mike von Joel Anthony Cohen [email protected] CORRESPONDENTS PUBLISHERS Clare Henry Karl Skogland Paul Carey-Kent PEOPLE | PLACES | PROJECTS [email protected] Ian Mckay Jeremy Levison William Varley [email protected] Georgina Turner F22 Magazine is available through selected galleries, libraries, ADMINISTRATION Lyle Owerko art schools, museums and other art venues across the UK. Julie Milne NEW YORK [email protected] DISTRIBUTION PUBLISHED BY FREE, f22 is not a dull review magazine. It is f22 is interactive. We value your Anne Chabrol Julie Milne State Media Ltd. about PEOPLE worth serious consideration; recommendations. DEPUTY EDITOR PARIS [email protected] LONDON PLACES that are hot and happening; and Anna McNay [email protected] Tell us: [email protected] [email protected] David Tidball PROJECTS that will interest photographers. BERLIN PRINTED BY Combined with STATE Magazine, f22 SPECIAL PROJECTS Garnett Dickinson To apply to stock f22 Magazine, email Frances Foni Elizabeth Crompton Rotherham S63 5DL reports the fusion of art + photography Julie Milne: [email protected] [email protected] MELBOURNE like no other with a truly international perspective. www.f22magazine.com www.f22magazine.com 5 SNAPSHOTS Lost Daguerreotypes A NEW book (Quaritch) has revealed some 325 daguerreotypes once belonging to Victorian critic John Ruskin, many showing an unspoilt Venice in the 1840s. Spotted by an astute collecting duo, Ken and Jenny Jacobson, at an auction in Cumbria in 2006, bidding against another collector bust the estimate of £80 to a hammer of £75,000. Exhaustive research then connected them to Ruskin and his three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture (1851-53). Steve McCurry National Geographic cover, June 1985 PRICE OF FAME? IT IS SAID that every photographer has ‘the picture’ by Pakistani identity card in the city of Peshawar in April which they are forever identified. Steve McCurry has 2014 under the name ‘Sharbat Bibi’. Authorities say she many brilliant images to call upon but his public is clear: managed to dodge Pakistan’s computerised system to APPLE BITES it is his 1984 shot for National Geographic’s June 1985 get an illegal identity card. In the picture on the fake THE ALL ACTIONMAN camera company, GoPro, cover, known as the Afghan Girl. The most recognised CNIC, she is wearing a black hijab that covers her head, saw stock drop 12% following a report that Apple photograph in the history of the magazine, it has even but one can hardly miss those famous, piercing eyes. The had been granted a patent for a mounted digital been dubbed the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa. In National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) camera system, similar to its own devices. The US April 2002, NatGeo finally identified her as Sharbat Gula suspended three men and a woman, officials at its Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple nearly (born c.1972) an Afghan woman then living as a refugee Hayatabad office. The department blocked three fake three dozen patents related to a new camera in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of CNICs issued to Gula (as the wife of one Rahmat Gul) system, dating back to filings from 2012. GoPro Afghanistan. She had never seen her famous portrait and mother of two sons – Rauf Khan and Wali Khan. has always acknowledged that ‘substantially all’ before. NatGeo ran a cover story on her life in its April It turned out that all three were Afghan nationals and its revenue comes from video cameras open to 2002 issue, and she was the subject of a television had faked documentation to get a card to which only competition from any major manufacturer.
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