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Art Subject: Bed
Catnap
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Garden of Angels
Located in Nashville, TN
Cuban mahogany with hand tint by Tennessee sculptor Brad Sells. Sells explores the relationship between man and tree in his sculptural woodwork. He approaches each piece with a stron...
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Mahogany

Overnight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, co...
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1950s American Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx. Slim Aarons Eden Hartford Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Est...
Category

1950s American Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Two Women in Bed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Greg Mac Gregor's artwork incorporates official, declassified photographs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Photographic Archives produced in the early 1950s at the Nevada Test...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Wallpapered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

69YK #10 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Nude, Black and White, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) 69YK #10, 2009 Gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Tania Mallet, 1961 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity 1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Sands of The Himalaya by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Nubra Valley is part of the Tibetan plateau. It is an arid landscape surrounded by awesome peaks, a high altitude desert inhabited by a few small Ladakhi communities and their ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Rag Paper, Wood

Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 90 x 75cm C-type photographic print only
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 120 x 100cm C-type photographic print Only
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Jorge’s Kitchen by Barry Cawston. 90 x 75cm photograph. Mounted to Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Soviet-era fridge and an American Singer sewing machine as found in Jorge’s kitchen. – The Spaces in Between series developed out of visits to Naples in Italy and Havana in Cuba, t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Kavir's World 1/10 - still-life, interior, color, photography, giclée print
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Known for her photographic portraits of interior spaces, Shani Mootoo reveals the curious and often emotive personal narratives of her subjects. This framed and matted giclee print ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

"Mood" Oil on canvas, bright and textured interior series w books and crystals
Located in Dallas, TX
"Mood" is a stunning elegant, colourful and textured oil painting. Ekaterina Popova's intimate bedroom and interior series capture the light subtleties and feelings of romanticism an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Petit Dejeuner (Sepia Toned Still Life of a Breakfast Room in Tonga)
Located in Hudson, NY
Sepia Toned Still Life of Wooden Antique Headrest from Tonga 17 x 17, edition of 25 Silver Gelatin Print, unframed David Halliday's series consists ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

White Horse, Black Stripes/Black Horse, White Stripes
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Intriguing and Unusual Imagery Name: Intriguing and Unusual Imagery Year: 1984 Venues West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts Susan Potts is a Wisconsin-based ar...
Category

1980s Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Beatles Pillow Fight by Harry Benson
Located in Cleveland, OH
Harry Benson was born near Glasgow, Scotland. The photographer was assigned to travel with the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964. His iconic photograph shows the band in a gleeful pillow...
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

German Contemporary Art by Juliane Hundertmark - Passion
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil, collage on canvas Juliane Hundertmark is a German artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is considered one of Berlin's most original and inventive emer...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Historical Photo of Prison - Vintage photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
Category

20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Tania Mallet in the Bahamas (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
Category

1960s American Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Ma...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

An Island in the Air - Photograph by Urs Luthi - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
An Island in the Air is a Photograph realized by Urs Luthi in 1975. From the portfolio "Un'isola nell'aria", Vol. IV, edition of 75 copies. Hand signed, numbered and dated. Very g...
Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Dead Corpus After Grignion - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dead Corpus After Grignion is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Lo...
Category

18th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Georgian Contemporary Art by George Maskharashvili - Death of my Friend
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper Edition of 60
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Swiss Contemporary Art by Olivier Furter - Zimmer I
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper - 72 x 102 x 3 cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Nick. Los Angeles, USA, 2017
Located in 'S-GRAVENHAGE, ZH
Medium: Poster printed on 150gsm premium paper Size: 18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm) Edition of 50 Signed and Numbered on label
Category

2010s Color Photography

Materials

Color

Carla Rae Johnson, PTSD Week 76, 2018, Graphite on bristol board, Political
Located in Darien, CT
P.T.S.D. (Post Trump Series of Drawings) The 87 satirical drawings displayed here are from a series that were produced one per week since November 9, 2016 (one day after the U.S. pr...
Category

2010s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

USA. Marilyn MONROE (USA). Actress & singer 1955
Located in Toronto, ON
Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag Paper Including COA Printed by Eve Arnold's own bespoke printer Danny Pope
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Al Fresco Bedroom (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Bedford, New York resident Mary Jane Russell poses with her cats on a four-poster style bed laid out on the lawn, 1960. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with...
Category

1960s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Tania Mallet in the Bahamas (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Japanese Contemporary Art - Wake Up, But Never Awake From The Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Hiromi Sengoku is a Japanese artist born in 1982 who lives and works in London, UK. Since 2008, she participated regularly to solo exhibitions in Japan and participate...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Oncoming Rain
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tania Mallet 1961 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tania Mallet - Oversize Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Chromogenic print paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm unframed printed later edition size 150 only certificate of authenticity supplied numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency. fashion james bond movie movies beach travel vacation summer summery cloud clouds 007 bond...
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1960s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Floral patterns
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label, verso 11 x 11 inches (Edition of 7) 15 x 15 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, locat...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Tania Mallet 1961 C print Estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity. 1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Tania Mallet in Eleuthera (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Tania Mallet 1961 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity 1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtai...
Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

The London Hotel
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"I see my work as an opportunity to delve into a groove that transcends my existence. The chosen groove is painting. To move through it and remain open to the unexpected, the unknown...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Kuroiso City, Tochigi Prefecture (#0177)
Located in New York, NY
32 X 40 inch gelatin silver print, edition 10 Framed to 42 x 49.75 inches, in white frame Signed, titled, dated and editioned on label verso. OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE - PLEASE INQUIRE. ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Michael Jackson X
Located in Toronto, ON
11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition Inquire for 8 x 10 Open Edition
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Le Chant (Naples, Italy)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicolas Ruel has been working, for the last several years, on an ambitious body of work, 8 seconds, where he attempts to revisit the image of the world’s greatest cities. From Elemen...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Stainless Steel

"Exhausted", abandoned, bed, television, metal print, green, color photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Exhausted” is a 24 x 36 inch metal print and is part of her “Transient” series. The color photograph of a bedroom in an abandoned home gives the viewer a sense of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Michael Jackson XII
Located in Toronto, ON
11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition Inquire for 8 x 10 Open Edition
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sleeping Beauty
Located in Toronto, ON
14" x 11" Unframed Archival Giclee Print Hand Signed by Alice Zilberberg "The Death of “Happily Ever After” is a dark reimagining of Disney’s fairy tales. These stories were origin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Long exposure figurative Photography: 'Illuminations No. 5'
Located in New York, NY
'Illuminations started in 2002 when a relationship was slowly falling apart. While trying to save it, we rented a large stylish apartment in Stockholm, and then later one in Arles, France, hoping that a change of scene would have a posi-tive effect. The new spaces made the distance between us more acute, and the inevitable break even more obvious. The ritual of making one photograph each night became crucial to me. I left the camera shutter open for 3 to 8 hours in a darkened bedroom, and as the morning light arrived I interrupted the exposure. It is a private journal, documenting time and memory, where present meets past.' Born in Vienna to Swedish and Greek parents and raised in Stockholm, Florence Montmare has an MBA in Design Management from Linnaeus University, Sweden and studied at the School of Visual Arts. A graduate of International Center of Photography, New York, she collaborated with artist Sam Samore...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Long exposure figurative Photography: 'Illuminations No. 53'
Located in New York, NY
'Illuminations started in 2002 when a relationship was slowly falling apart. While trying to save it, we rented a large stylish apartment in Stockholm, and then later one in Arles, France, hoping that a change of scene would have a posi-tive effect. The new spaces made the distance between us more acute, and the inevitable break even more obvious. The ritual of making one photograph each night became crucial to me. I left the camera shutter open for 3 to 8 hours in a darkened bedroom, and as the morning light arrived I interrupted the exposure. It is a private journal, documenting time and memory, where present meets past.' Born in Vienna to Swedish and Greek parents and raised in Stockholm, Florence Montmare has an MBA in Design Management from Linnaeus University, Sweden and studied at the School of Visual Arts. A graduate of International Center of Photography, New York, she collaborated with artist Sam Samore...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx. Slim Aarons Eden Hartford Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Est...
Category

1950s American Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Original Photography Signed by Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart. Edition: I/VIII Dimensions: 90 x 60 cm Signed and numbered Cyrille Druart is a French photograph and architect, a book abo...
Category

2010s Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Its a great pleasure to watch yourself make love
Located in Denton, TX
Its a great pleasure to watch yourself make love, 1971 Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in. Signed, artist stamp, and numbered. Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volu...
Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

France, Paris, 1952 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
France, Paris, 1952 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed later Availabl...
Category

Late 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

`Exit, Okurimono series, Tokyo- japan-nude -harajuku-girl-color
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West.` This exhibition explores the ever-worsening forest fires due to climate change. In 2005, my series `Arctic Technology`, was shortlisted for the BMW Prize at Paris Photo (Scout Gallery, London). In 2015, my series `Paradise Lost`(containing three of my main environmental series) toured between three large museums in China. My other environmental work has been nominated for the annual Prix Pictet Award twice, with my series, `Barentsburg` and `Shadow Within`, for both Earth and Power themes. In 2005, my series `Arctic Technology` was shortlisted for the BMW Prize at Paris photo (through Scout Gallery, London). My work has been shown in numerous museums, including a symposium at Johnson Museum, N.Y., was included in traveling exhibitions with WHATCOM (Museum of Washington) with the exhibition `Vanishing Ice`, as well as a two-year museum tour in China environmental issues with Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing and the Norwegian Embassy. Publications/books include `Vanishing Ice`and `Altered Landscape` (Nevada Museum of Art), including purchased work for their collection at Center for Art and Environment. Selected exhibitions CV: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) - Curriculum Vitae 2021 `As far as my Eye can Sea – The Expedition Exhibition` Rev Ocean, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal `Facing Fire`, Collaborative, UCR ARTS:California Museum of Photography Continuation `Death of a Mountain`/ In;Human Nature`, Buer Gallery, Oslo 2020 `Facing Fire`, Collaborative, UCR ARTS:California Museum of Photography 2019 `Metafysica`, `Residence of Impermanence`,collaborative, Haugar Kunstmuseum, Vestfold `Residence of Impermanence`, Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm. Solo `Helt Dyrisk` Residence of Impermanence`, collaborative, Preus Museum, Horten `Residence of Impermanence`, Galleri Fineart, Oslo. Solo 2017 `Shadow Within/Rituals` Gulden Kunstverk, Drammen. Solo Commission, MAAEMO restaurant. `In;Human Nature` `Mirror,Mirror` Hosfelt Gallery, San.Fran. Collaborative w/Ed Ruscha, Adam Fuss, Liliana Porter 2016 `In;Human Nature`, TM51 Gallery, Oslo. Solo Fotofever/ParisPhoto, Louvre, Paris Cornette de Saint Cyr, Auction, Paris 2015 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China. `Paradise Lost` . `Arctic Technology/Barentsburg`/ Shadow Within. Solo Fotofever (ParisPhoto), Artistics Art Gallery, Paris. Collaborative How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China. `Paradise Lost` Arctic Technology/Barentsburg/Shadow Within. Solo Redtory, Guangzhou, China. `Paradise Lost` Arctic Technology/Barentsburg/Shadow Within. Solo 2014 Fineart Gallery, Oslo `Shadow Within` 2010-2013 / `Darkness Burns Bright` 2013/2014. Solo Beyond Earth Art • (contemporary artists and the environment) Johnson Museum of Art, New York. Shadow Within. Collaborative (incl. Olafur Eliasson, Edward Burtynsky, Mathew Brandt, Yun-Fei Ji amongst others) The El Paso Museum of Art, Texas. `Arctic Technology`. Collaborative Glenbow Museum, Alberta. `Arctic Technology`. Collaborative LIFF (Lofoten International Photofestival) `Shadow Within` w/speaking. Solo 2013 Nominated for the Prix Pictet Award/ `Shadow Within`. Hosfelt Gallery, San.Fran. USA. `Shadow Within`. Solo Accompanied by Call of the Wild`( Joseph Beuys, Ed Ruscha, Patricia Piccinini and Alan Rath...
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