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SPRING 2012
Ffotogallery
distributed by Cornerhouse world-wide
Believing is Seeing
artists: Je Baak, Duck Hyun Cho, Seihon Cho,
Kyungwoo Chun, Byung-hun Min, Hein-Kuhn
Oh, Hyun Mi Yoo
texts by David Drake, Jiyoon Lee
On the occasion of the exhibition
Believing is Seeing at Ffotogallery
(November – December 2011),
this new publication focuses on the
work of seven Korean artists who
each adopt different approaches
to contemporary photography or
photography-based work. Focusing
on some common themes in
contemporary Korean photographic
art, the publication expands on the
themes explored in the exhibition.
The term Junsinsaj, used in
traditional Korean portrait painting,
signifies the replication of a person’s
shape and spirit. This means that
taking a photograph of a person
is not restricted to a replication of
their physical likeness, but should
also embody the essence of their
personality. Inverting the Western
idiom ‘seeing is believing’, the
exhibition features artists with
markedly different strategies in
relation to photographic portraiture,
but who all reject any approach to
photography that emphasises visual
verification and purely mechanical
reproduction.
Ffotogallery £15.00
ISBN 978-1-872771-86-1
softback 100 pages
32 colour, 16 b&w photographs
255 x 200 mm
English, Welsh and Korean text
Inside the View
Helen Sear
texts by David Chandler, Sharon Morris
Inside the View brings together for
the first time key bodies of work
produced by Helen Sear over the
last 25 years, reflecting the artist’s
exploration of the relationship
between colour and form, figure
and ground, the visible and the
unseen. Helen Sear’s photographic
practice has developed from a fine
art background in performance,
film and installation work in the
1980s and she continues to explore
ideas of vision, touch and the
representation of the nature of
experience, combining drawing,
lens-based media and digital
technologies. Sear’s work challenges
the dominant view of photography as
a documentary medium, questioning
its indexical relationship with the
world. Photography, whether in its
analogue or digital form, may enable
us to view in close up the surface
detail of objects, but in doing so
our perceptual experience of them
becomes more ambiguous and
fragmented, belying their unity and
coherence.
Ffotogallery £30.00
ISBN 978-1-872771-88-5
hardback 144 pages
70 colour illustrations
280 x 230 mm
English and Welsh text
Works on Memory
Daniel Blaufuks
texts by David Drake, David Campany,
Filipa Oliveira, Mark Durden, Derrick Price,
Eileen Little
Published on the occasion of his
exhibition at Ffotogallery, Works on
Memory charts the last 10 years of
Portuguese artist Daniel Blaufuks’
practice. The distinct format of the
book is based on designs by the
French publishing imprint Série Noire
who released detective thrillers in
the 1950s. Daniel Blaufuks is an
artist fascinated by the processes
of memory – how we construct
meaning in our lives through the
accrual of details and traces, from
the mental residue and after-images
of our daily existence. Blaufuks is
interested not only in the ways that
photography and film are changing
as media, but also in the methods by
which we archive, store and retrieve
information – our ability to remember.
His photographic images of film
canisters, cassette tapes, celluloid
film strips and negatives etc. remind
us that as each analogue ‘memory
container’ is superceded by new
technological developments, our
capacity to record data may increase
exponentially, but something is also
lost in the process. For Blaufuks,
photography is more than simply a
trigger for retrieving past memories.
Photography is memory.
Ffotogallery £10.00
ISBN 978-1-872771-87-8
softback 152 pages
92 b&w illustrations
178 x 115 mm
firstsite
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Culpable Earth
Steven Claydon
texts by Martin Clark, Steven Claydon,
Michelle Cotton, Patrizia Dander
edited by Michelle Cotton
Culpable Earth is a monographic
publication about British artist Steven
Claydon’s work, published by firstsite
on the occasion of Claydon’s solo
exhibition of the same name. This
book features over 300 illustrations
and previously unpublished texts
about and by the artist, alongside an
extended interview between Claydon
and Martin Clark, Artistic Director,
Tate St Ives.
firstsite £19.95
ISBN 978-0-948252-33-4
softback 144 pages
260 colour, 45 b&w illustrations
242 x 212 mm
GlobalArtAffairs
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Hans Kotter
Light Flow
texts by Annett Zinsmeister, Kai-Uwe Hemken
Colour and light are the main
themes in Hans Kotter’s work,
which comprises photography, light
objects, and installations. It is the
playful treatment of a wide range of
materials such as oil, water, acrylic
glass, stainless steel, chrome etc.
and their effects in relation to light
and colour which fascinates the
artist and inspires him to try out new
forms of expression continually. The
abstraction of colour and light creates
diffuse landscapes, the illusion of
distance, mysterious waves, the
impression of water, shimmering heat
or the finest of fabrics, which seem
to glide across the picture surface
in undulating folds. The apparent
materiality of Kotter’s unmanipulated
photographs of the immaterial – of
light and colour – points to their
origins in painting, yet at the same
time they document physical
processes. The incredible degree
of beauty, opulence, brilliance and
simultaneous mystery with which
natural scientific insights can be
manifest in art is quite remarkable.
Included is an interview with Hans
Kotter.
GlobalArtAffairs Publishing £20.00
ISBN 978-3-941763-10-4
softback 120 pages
85 colour illustrations
260 x 210 mm
Haunch of Venison
distributed by Cornerhouse world-wide
Ahmed Alsoudani
text by Suzannah Biernoff
This catalogue features works from
the first solo show in Britain by
acclaimed Iraqi-born artist Ahmed
Alsoudani. In this new series of
paintings, Alsoudani continues
his complex exploration of war
and conflict, its physical atrocities
and psychological consequences.
Featuring deformed, almost bestial,
figures twisting in vivid and surreal
landscapes, these tableaux are
often laced with a barbed or morbid
humour in the manner of artists
such as Francisco Goya and Max
Beckmann among others. Imagery of
devastation and violence abounds,
with figures depicted at the moment
of a dramatic transition – through
fear or agony – from the human
to the grotesque. While Alsoudani
acknowledges the influence of many
artists on his work – from Caravaggio
to Carroll Dunham – he has at the
same time developed his own unique
pictorial language, one based on his
personal experiences of growing up
in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein’s
regime during the first Gulf War
and of the more recent Iraq conflict.
Published on the occasion of the
exhibition at Haunch of Venison,
London, 14 October – 26 November
2011.
Haunch of Venison £20.00
ISBN 978-1-905620-59-3
softback 62 pages
illustrated in colour
310 x 240 mm
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