Swiss

3 Jun 2010

Where Three Dreams Cross (Winterthur, Swiss)

Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Fotomuseum Winterthur
12.06.2010 – 22.08.2010
Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and the United States. The exhibition Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh and the publication accompanying it articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia.

3 Mar 2010

ghibellini exhibitions

Marianne Breslauer, Photographs

Marianne Breslauer, Photographs
Fotomuseum Winterthur
27 February – 30 May 2010
“What interested me was reality, more precisely, the unimportant reality, the reality most people overlooked.”
Marianne Breslauer left behind only a small photographic oeuvre, but one that is all the richer and that still has an undiminished freshness.

2 Mar 2010

ghibellini exhibitions

The subversion of images

The subversion of images
Surrealism, Photography, and Film
Fotomuseum Winterthur
27 February – 23 May 2010
The Surrealist avant garde considered itself to be a revolutionary countermovement to the bourgeois system of values. Through new imagery, they investigated existence during the interwar period, a time of great social and political instability, and they deconstructed received ways of seeing and thinking through various artistic strategies. Photography seemed to best fulfill the Surrealists’ needs as their medium of choice.

31 Jan 2010

pivari exhibitions

The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film

The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film Fotomuseum Winterthur February 27 – May 23, 2010 From February 27 to May 23, 2010, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting the exhibition The Subversion of Images–Surrealism, Photography, Film, an extraordinarily rich survey of Surrealist photography. The exhibition comprises over 400 photographs, films, and documents: from the most […]

19 Nov 2009

ghibellini exhibitions, Featured

Graciela Iturbide – The Inner Eye

Graciela Iturbide – The Inner Eye Fotomuseum Winterthur 28.11.2009 – 7.2.2010 The photograph Mujer ángel (Angel Woman), showing a Seri Indian with her back to us, walking through the desert carrying a radio recorder, is one of Graciela Iturbide’s most compelling images. It is, strictly speaking, a documentary photograph, and yet, at the same time, […]

17 Oct 2009

pivari exhibitions

KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes

KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes Fotomuseum Winterthur 24.10.2009 – 07.02.2010 Seems familiar? We are constantly bombarded by images and information – at school, at work, in newspapers and on the web. All of these stimuli carry a multitude of underlying codes. Day in and day out, we navigate our way, more or less successfully, through a […]

17 Oct 2009

pivari exhibitions