Sanne De Wilde - The Dwarf Empire

 

De Brakke Grond presents The Dwarf Empire, the first solo-exhibition by the Belgium photographer Sanne De Wilde. The Dwarf Empire, a theme park in the South of China, is the empire of 70 dwarfs. Every day the dwarfs present a show for tourists. In the exhibition, different realities rub against, alongside and over one another. De Wilde reveals a diffuse role-play and shows how she, as a photographer, became part of this artificial reality. The exhibition will open on Friday 31 January, 7pm.

 

February 01, 2014 till March 14, 2014 Netherlands Amsterdam

Mon-Fri: 11am-6pm Sat-Sun: 1pm-6pm

Venue details

Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond
Nes 45
1012 KD Amsterdam

www.brakkegrond.nl

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William Klein in Foam

Gun 1, New York 1955 (painted 2005) © William Klein

Foam finishes 2013 with a unique retrospective exhibition of the work of William Klein. The entire museum will be dedicated to the life and work of this legendary photographer, filmmaker and designer.  The career of William Klein (b. 1928) spans more than sixty years. His work had an immense influence on photography during the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition gives ample coverage to Klein's ground-breaking work in New York in the 1950s while also displaying work made in Rome, Moscow and Tokyo. His work for Vogue shows Klein was a great innovator in the field of fashion photography. In addition to his early experiments with abstract photography, his large-scale, painted-on contact prints that he's been creating in more recent years will also be on view in Foam. 

A selection of Klein's feature films and documentaries will be shown in Foam's 3h library space. This exceptional William Klein retrospective exhibition has been curated by Foam and can be seen exclusively in Amsterdam.

William Klein will be present at the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 19 December 2013.

Surcharge €1,25.

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