Showing posts with label Fotohof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fotohof. Show all posts

Monday, January 13, 2014

Paul Kranzler - Brut

I was surprised to see I haven't posted about this book yet, its almost embarrassing. BRUT is not only beautiful and the special editions well worth the money, Paul is one of my best friends. Paul is not afraid of getting up-close and personal, its just that usually he is up-close and personal to others; check out Tom for the personal story of a young man coming of age and it doesn't get much closer than Land of Milk and Honey. But, his book BRUT from 2011 is  the first time Paul is close to home and to his own family. As with all of his work until now, it is an eclectic mix of still-lives, landscapes and of course his signature portrait style which can be brutal and poetic at the same time; hard love maybe. Paul travels the country visiting friends and family and shows us the intricacies of what it means to belong to a collective clan.

Of course Paul has a better presentation than I do.















Published by the Fotohof edition in 2011,
160 pages, 80 bw/color photos

The Fotohof book+print edition is available here. It is a choice of 3 different images from the book, edition of 12.

AND be sure to check out the BRUT app available for you iPad or Iphone 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

FOTOHOF - the new space


left: Dirk Braeckman "N.P.-M.V.-05" © Dirk Braeckman - Courtesy of Zeno X Gallery Antwerpen,
right: gallery view Herman Seidl


The time is finally here. After more than a year of planning and building and moving, Fotohof is finally settled into the new space and we will be celebrating this weekend.

If you are in town, stop by Friday night, the 24th of February for the opening of Dirk Braekman in the main hall and Peter Dressler in the new library space. On a huge projection screen we will present works of current Austrian positions.

On Saturday morning I will moderate a discussion between Jeffrey Ladd and Dirk Braekman about his new book.

Hope you can join us, here are the details.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

TRYS in Fotohof Salzburg

Ugnius Gelguda

Andrew Miksys

Indre Serpytyte

This is the last week to see a show which I curated in the Gallery Fotohof in Salzburg this summer.

A group show of 3 contemporary Lithuanian artists, TRYS (Lithuanian for "three") highlights the work of


If you have the time, and the language, here is the press-text in german.


Die drei litauischen Künstler ( trys = drei) Ugnius GELGUDA, Andrew MIKSYS und Indre SERPYTYTE beschäftigen sich mit der Fotografie als Medium der eigenen, sowie der kulturellen und sozialen Identitätssuche.


Andrew Miksys geht der Spur seiner 2006 fertig gestellten Porträtserie BAXT nach und zeigt daran, wie seine Fotografien von ihren Besitzern in den Wohnungen neu kontextualisiert wurden.

In BAXT befasst sich Miksys mit dem Volk der Roma, von denen heute ca. 3000 Menschen in Litauen leben, wo die Fotoserie in mehreren Roma-Siedlungen ab 1999 entstand. „Während der Zeit, in der ich Menschen für ein Projekt, das später BAXT heißen sollte porträtierte, schenkte ich ihnen Abzüge ihres Porträts.

Später habe ich Bücher verschenkt. Als ich die Menschen dann wieder besuchte, war ich erstaunt zu sehen, wie sie meine Fotos verändert hatten und bei sich zuhause aufhingen. Manche haben ihr Bildnis aus dem Buch herausgerissen und im Wohn- oder Schlafzimmer aufgehängt.“


Er zeigt ein von den Zeitläufen unberührtes Volk mit ausgeprägter Identität. Menschen, umgeben von obsolet gewordenen Versatzstücken des Sowjetregimes und kapitalistisch konnotierten Gegenständen in einer sich im Umbruch befindlichen Zeit. Die Schauplätze der Fotografien eröffnen eine Vielzahl von Bedeutungsebenen, die sie mit Ironie und Witz aufladen. Miksys beschönigt nicht und idealisiert nicht. Seine Qualität liegt in der Schnelligkeit, mit der er eine Verbindung zwischen sich und dem Protagonisten herstellt und eine Form des monumentalen klassischen Porträts generiert das gepaart ist mit liebevoller humoristischer Individualität.


Mit stillebenartigen, großformatigen Fotos der Serie „A state of Silence“ von hinterlassenen Gegenständen ihres Vaters, versucht Indre Serpytyte seinen mysteriösen Tod und die bisher unbekannte Identität als Geheimagent zu durchleuchten. Albinas Serpytis starb am 13. Oktober 2001 bei einem Autounfall. Die weiteren Umstände dieses Unglücksfalls bleiben im Dunkel. Die Künstlerin nimmt dieses tragische Ereignis zum Anlass einer umfangreichen Recherche, bei der die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion nicht immer klar voneinander zu trennen sind. Die Antwort, ob es sich bei Albinas Serpytis tatsächlich um den Vater der Künstlerin, bzw. um einen Geheimagenten handelt lässt die Künstlerlin letztendlich unbeantwortet.

Gelguda befasst sich in der Serie „crimescapes“, mit Bildstrategien in litauischen Printmedien. Ausgewählte Bilder der Seiten „Verbrechen und Katastrophen“ aus litauischen Tageszeitungen bilden die Grundlage seines Arbeitsaufenthaltes in Salzburg.

Gelguda interessiert sich für das Verhältnis von Text und Bild, das in den litauischen Zeitungsbeispielen kaum einen Zusammenhang hat. Die Abbildungen dienen nicht primär als Illustration der dazu gehörigen Schlagzeilen. Die im Text angeführten zeitlichen und örtlichen Bezüge finden keine Entsprechung in den Bildern.

Gelguda stellt einzelne ausgewählte „settings“ solcher litauischen Zeitungsphotos in der Peripherie Salzburgs nach , er generiert dadurch eine neue Realitätsebene, die so jedoch nie stattgefunden hat. Auf die Rekonstruktion des Tatortes an einem völlig anderen Ort, folgt die Dokumentation, mit dem Ergebnis einer Reproduktion von simulierter Wirklichkeit.




Die Ausstellung ist Teil eines umfangreichen Kulturprogramms in Salzburg mit KünstlerInnen aus Vilnius im Rahmen einer Städtepartnerschaft „Alte Liebe rostet nicht – Salzburg / Litauen 1970 – 2010“




Biografien:

Ugnius Gelguda, * 1977, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, 2000-2008. Lebt in Vilnius.

Andrew Miksys, * 1969, Guggenheim und Fulbright Stipendien. Lebt in Seattle und Vilnius.

Indre Serpytyte, * 1983 Litauen, Royal College of Art, London 2007-2009. Lebt in London.





Thursday, November 26, 2009

Miklos Boros - Stranded


Miklos Boros
Notstand/Stranded - Special edition book + print








Miklos Boros, the Linz based photographer has just published his first book with Fotohof and is offering a very affordable Book+Print edition. I have seen his prints and they are fantastic. The book is a result of his project State of Emergency:

Over a period of two years Miklos Boros photographed a woman in her private and professional environment. In doing so he created the portrait of someone who is a single mother of three children, and a go-go dancer. The woman, who is Hungarian by birth, has lived and worked in Linz, Austria, since 1998. This book features a selection of photographs which authentically and unpretentiously records the everyday life of a thirty-year-old woman in both these contexts.


Boros’s attention focuses on specific situations, looks, gestures, details, rooms and constellations. He seeks neither to moralise nor to comment. Instead, he allows the documentary approach to create a narrative quality which gradually fills particularly the space that exists between the photographs. The impact which characterises the State of Emergency project as a whole is created in this in-between area, an impact which with razor-sharp precision chisels a life situation out of anonymity and the portrait of a woman out of her status as available object.


Indeed, State of Emergency shows a person as a subject, at eye level.


Martin Hochleitner



There are 3 different images to choose from, 20x30 cm, fiber prints (or) c-prints. Each comes with a signed and numbered book in an edition of 20.


Print 1



Print 2



Print 3




Contact Miklos directly to get one:



Thursday, October 1, 2009

Markus Krottendorfer - Stock Car








Markus Krottendorfer, courtesy of Fotohof.


Markus Krottendorfer
Stock Car - not so limited book.

This isn't such a limited edition book, 1000 copies to be exact, but I found it interesting and I am always attracted to projects which I think have found the perfect form. This is a hefty soft-bound brick that reminds me of the big service guides we used to have in auto-shop class in high school which you had to get off the shelf and find a sturdy surface to flop it open to find out how to break down a distributor.

The book contains 120 black and white photographs of Stock Car (you have to write that word BOLD) races in England. The cars are all modified from their original stock condition, often deformed and covered in flashy stickers as they race, fly and crash around make-shift courses. Markus Krottendorfer also includes scenes before and after the races, the macho stances in the pit-boxes, the mechanics, the polished hoods being shined and ready for the next beating.

The full-bleed, double page printing mirrors this work's original form of a slide show. The cars and their heros seem to emerge from with-in, stepping into the stage lights for a brief brush with fame and death.

File this one somewhere between Valerie Belin and Weegee

Text: David Staretz
German and English
27 x 20 cm
39.00 €

You can find more info here.


Wednesday, April 22, 2009

2 events in Fotohof, Salzburg





If you are in or near Salzburg in the next month, Fotohof has a show starting on Thursday which highlights one of the most interesting private collections of photography in Austria. Hans Ponsold's collection will be shown parallel to the opening of Fotohof's new Artothek. 

The Artothek is similair to a library. For a very reasonable price of 60 euro per year you can "rent" works from the Fotohof edition to hang on your walls. The new Fotohof homepage will be up soon, and I will be running blog there, so I will surely keep you up-to-date about the interesting changes.

On Friday May 1st, Fotohof will kick off the first of a series of "Freitagsgespräche" or Friday lecture series. The first will be an evening with the european based Piece of Cake photo group. About 16 of the 20 members will be there for the evening which will highlight the group as a whole as well as works from individual members. The latest portfolio of 20 images will be launched on this night.

Following on June 12th will be Jessica Backhaus, speaking about her work which will be shown in the gallery as of June 9th.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Fotohof Shop for used books



The Gallery Fotohof in Salzburg Austria is an artist-run space for contemporary photography as well as one of the most important European venues and info centers for photography. Alongside an exhibition space, there is a library of approximately 10,000 books of photography. You can imagine I waste alot of time there.

The gallery has collected mountains of books over the last 25 years and is now selling off several hundred of them on an Ebay shop. 


Being that Nathalie who runs the shop really knows her stuff, you will get competency but you probably won't find that "deal of a lifetime" although there are some jewels which are priced at the lower end of what you find them for elsewhere.

Ok, I am a bit partial because I have been secretly, crazy in love with Nathalie for about 18 years. 

Enjoy the shop and spread the word.


Hi Nat, there is your plug. Should I pick up Leonie from kindergarden? If you grab some tortillas on your way home I can make burritos tonight.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Ricarda Roggan - Schacht/Attika/Stall









Schacht 12, 2006


Ricarda Roggan 
Schacht/Attika/Stall - book + limited edition print, 2008 


This book, which was awarded a German Photo Book Prize for 2008, is a catalogue of the main bodies of work from Ricarda Roggan. The 20  color images in Schacht/Attika/Stall (in english, roughly Box/Attic/Stable), are void any narrative order or traces if historical events  yet hint at a reality so irritatingly estranged that it can only be constructed.  ...or not?


...the artist uncovers the real situation she finds on site and frees it of the traces and layers of its uses, thus reducing it to its essential substance, in the image thereof she increasingly levels off the difference between past and present.
Martin Hochleitner, 

The book is hardcover, 32x24 cm, 50 pages, ca 20 color imges, text by Martin Hochleitner.

The above print is 50 x 42 cm, c-print, edition of 35.

Book and print price:  250,- Euro

They are available through Fotohof.   



Saturday, July 26, 2008

Wolfgang Thaler - Mepyuk








Wolfgang Thaler
Mepyuk - book + print, 2001

Wolfgang Thaler spent several years traveling to major cites around the world (Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Sofia, Tokyo, Wien etc) to photograph in the office spaces, waiting rooms and entrance halls to the various corporate, cultural and hotel buildings which we pass daily but never get a chance to make it past the doorman. Whether Mexico or Tokyo, we get very few hints at cultural identity but instead  are given a glimpse into Mepyuk, an almost imaginary world which is nowhere and everywhere.


The book is Hardcover, 24x17 cm, 144 pages, 100 color images.

The 3 images above are available for 180,- Euro each. They are 40x50 cm c-prints, edition of 15.

All 3 images are available for 440,- Euro.

Get them at Fotohof.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Peter Dressler - box set of artist books






Peter Dressler
box set of artist books - Edition Fotohof, 2008

Part performance artist, part photographer, 100% cynic. Peter Dressler moves about the "ready made" sets of the world, commenting on the subtle absurdity of our modern world.

This box set of 6 books includes all of the titles to date which Fotohof has produced.

Rather Rare Recipes
Business Class
Tangible Beauty
Tie Break
Immediate Vicinity
Lasting Values

Each book is 24x16 cm, Hardbound on heavy card-stock to give them the feel of children's books. 
Cover to cover photographs, on average of 9 double paged images per book.

The price for a single book is 20,- Euro
The box set of all 6 is 80,- Euro

Get them directly at Fotohof.
If you are in the US, try to get them at RAM.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Paul Kranzler - Land of Milk and Honey





Paul Kranzler
Land of Milk and Honey - book + print, 2005


This is Paul Kranzler's first book in the Edition Fotohof. 

These 2 images are available for 90,- Euro for the c-print, 24x30 cm and 110,- Euro for the b/w fiber print 24x30 cm. Each in an edition of 33.

In October 2001 I was flat hunting for somewhere inexpensive to live. I found out that there were a few rooms for rent on the top floor of a townhouse in Linz, with a communal toilet in the corridor, in stark contrast to the posh doctors’ surgeries on the ground floor.

I’d been living there for a year before I got to know Toni and Aloisia better, beyond just saying hello or helping to carry their shopping up the stairs. There was nothing weird about my two neighbours in the rooms next door; right from the outset they were genuinely warm-hearted and friendly towards me. And they were completely normal.

Which was why it was often fun to go next door for a chat, a beer or to watch TV. It was an oasis amid the hostile desert of the Land of Milk and Honey.

I was allowed to be a part of their lives, and to this day it’s something I’m grateful to them for. Taking the photos was never an issue; they had no reservations – to them I was just the guy who took photos. Lots of photos.

The state of the room reflected the state of the person who lived there.

And that’s how I found him one day in the summer of 2003, lying on the floor of his room, in a terrible state after a stroke.

Soon afterwards his room was cleared out; we all knew he’d never be able to manage on his own again. He proved to be made of other stuff, thank God; “a bad penny always comes back,” he whispered to me in intensive care. To this day I’ve not idea how he managed to pull through.

I, too, moved out of the building soon afterwards.

We sometimes meet up again; I go and see him in his new room, and her in her old one; sometimes he even pops round to see her.

Paul

Linz, 15 February 2005



You can get them at Fotohof, and be sure to get a book as well.

If you are in the US, try to find it through RAM publications