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THE EYE IS a LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES of HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg September 10 to November 6, 2011 THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg September 10 to November 6, 2011 Bild: Francesco Giusti, „Bonga Bonga“ from the Series Sapologie, Ponte- Noire, Congo, 2009 Courtesy: Francesco Giusti Credit: Said Atabekov, aus der Serie „Way to Rome“, 2007, C print, 50 x 65 cm, Courtesy of Impronte Contemporary Art, Milano PRESS KIT KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM ZEPHYR DER REISS-ENGELHORN-MUSEEN ALTER MESSPLATZ MANNHEIM WILHELM-HACK-MUSEUM Media Relations: KUNSTVEREIN LUDWIGSHAFEN Goldmann HEIDELBERGER KUNSTVEREIN Public Relations Christa SAMMLUNG PRINZHORN Stollenwerk HALLE02/KUNSTHALLE HEIDELBERG Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11 Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg September 10 to November 6, 2011 CONTENT 1. Press Release 2. Concept 3. Thematic Categories and Venues a. Mannheim (ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie of the Reiss-Engelhorn useum, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Alter Messplatz) b. Ludwigshafen (Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen) c. Heidelberg (Heidelberger Kunstverein, Sammlung Prinzhorn, halle02/Kunsthalle) 4. Artists a. List of artists (alphabetical order) b. List of artists (by venues) 5. Curators a. Katerina Gregos b. Solvej Helweg Ovesen 6. Dates and Facts 7. Highlights of the Program (Lectures and Reviews) 8. Co-operations and Network 9. History of the Fotofestival 10. Thumbnail and Credits (selection) Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations 11. Sponsors Christa Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 12. BASF SE – Premium sponsor & Partner of the 4. Fotofestival 80538 München Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg Deutschland Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11 Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg September 10 to November 6, 2011 1. PRESS RELEASE 56 INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS FROM 32 COUNTRIES EXPLORE THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. A PREVIEW OF THE 7 EXHIBITION SPACES IN 3 FESTIVAL CITIES - MANNHEIM, LUDWIGSHAFEN AND HEIDELBERG What might a portrait of humankind look in the year 2011? And what does the expanded medium of photography, reveal about the challenges confronting the people of Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia today? How does photography convey anthropological knowledge and transmit information from and to humans today? For the 4th edition of Germany’s largest curated photo festival, Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen, set out to present a diversity of images of humankind today. The eye of the "lonely hunter" in the festival’s title is the eye of the photographer, always "on the lookout for idiosyncracies, subjectivities and surprises, as a means of expressing the marginalised, the suppressed, the invisible and the contradictory", say the curators in their catalogue text. Thematically, the festival is centred around socio-political themes such as economic and exploitative circuits, imperialism and the legacy of colonialisms, environmental issues, tolerance, ethnographic ‘othering’, civil liberties, but also more personal existential issues such as individual rites of passage, daily survival strategies and mortality. The over 700 works in the exhibition advocate a new photographic humanism, an approach to photography which is more directly engaged, acknowledges the responsibilities and problematics underlying the capturing of the ‘other’ and the politics of representation, and puts emphasis on direct communication, interaction and intimacy – as opposed to ‘objective’ social analysis or activism. Here, the camera’s ability to convey knowledge as a feeling or emotion, not as a mere certification of truth, is rediscovered. With five festival thematic categories, and three solo exhibitions spanning seven prominent venues in the three festival cities - Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg - the high-calibre programme of the 4th Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg brings together works which are socially and politically engaged but also display a strong sense of visuality. Ranging from documentary to constructed photography, traditional landscape, portrait photography, and docu-fiction, as well as film and video installation, the festival presents a range of lens-based media reflecting the expanded Media Relations: nature of photography today. This spectrum of photographic forms combines powerful imagery Goldmann Public Relations and critically engaged positions to tell captivating stories from the lives of people living in the Christa 21st century. Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11 Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de MANNHEIM THE AFFECT AND EFFECT OF POLITICS, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie der Reiss- Engelhorn Museen, Mannheim How do the decisions that politicians make (or don’t make) affect our lives in real, tangible ways? What are the effects of political practice or malpractice? The Affect and Effect of Politics explores the real, tangible effects of politics on human beings and how these are imprinted on the physical environment: on landscapes, buildings, and social spaces; but also how they impact humans psychologically and in practical terms. The works in this exhibition – many of which are indebted to the humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography - focuses on the legacy of colonialisms and empire, current political upheavals and their repercussions, the politico-economic entanglements of the West beyond its own borders, and the new realities of the emerging economic super-powers in developing countries. ROLE AND RITUAL, Kunsthalle Mannheim Rituals are essential formats of actions that create and sustain human culture, spirituality and sociality. Rituals are both historically inherited and contemporarily invented collective actions ordered in a commonly known dramaturgy. Through rituals, and the role-play they often entail, humans experience, partake of and interpret communal events, whether celebratory or distressing. These events confirm as well as generate a sense of collective experience – in some cases also consciousness. Role and Ritual unfolds through artistic and anthropocentric ‘case studies’ of local ritual culture and role-playing cited in a postcolonial, global context, and questions the myths generated in anthropological and ethnographic photography. Solo presentation: BEAT STREULI: New public commission for the Alte Messeplatz, Mannheim Beat Streuli has become internationally known for his urban portraits - photographs of anonymous passers-by captured unawares - taken over the years in the world’s big cities. In his work, ethnic or cultural backgrounds take a back seat in favor of a phenomenological treatment of their incidental activities and bodily gestures. The repetition of human forms and human ‘traffic’ develops into a meditative inquiry into a human condition. For the 4th edition of the Fotofestival Beat Streuli has developed a site-specific work especially for the Alte Messeplatz in the city of Mannheim, which was shot on location during the month of July. LUDWIGSHAFEN ECOLOGICAL CIRCUITS, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Ecological Circuits explores the changing relationship of man to the natural environment, a relationship that has been constantly shifting and has become increasingly precarious during our times. Intervention by human beings into nature and the incessant exploitation and consumption of natural resources and raw materials, have dramatically impacted ecological circuits throughout the world. The landscape and architecture photographs presented here generate a visual consciousness of the effects of unchecked human intervention in nature but also indicate a drive to a new ecological consciousness and responsibility we all face at the Media Relations: dawn of the twenty-first century. Goldmann Public Relations Christa THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Stollenwerk The Practice of Everyday Life consists of a photographic investigation into the organisation, Bruderstraße 5 performance and ‘personalising’ of everyday life, a task all human beings face. It is inspired by 80538 München Deutschland the homonymous book, by the sociologist Michel de Certeau, where he investigates how human beings individualise culture, and alter or modify things - from utilitarian objects to quotidian Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11 practices - in order to make them ‘their own’. How do we go through the processes of daily actions, necessities, and routines? How do we devise strategies that get us through the Fax. +49-89- quotidian? The Practice of Everyday Life thus testifies to humankind’s capacity for ordinary or 211 164 29 inventive survival strategies in the face of quotidian existence as captured in the snapshot, the E-Mail: portrait, as well as staged or manipulated photography. cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de HEIDELBERG LIFE CYCLES, Heidelberger Kunstverein A life cycle represents the existential curve from being born to passing away and the trajectory of an individual existence between the two. The photographs in Life Cycles capture and cut through the existential moments of biographical importance that impact upon and eventually constitute our subjective experience of the world and the deeper bliss or painful hardship of life. They allude to the ephemeral nature as well as the material, and physical consequences of the passage of time. The exhibition provides
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