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| ■ Michael Danner (Germany) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 9Born Reutlingen 1967, resident in
Berlin. Studied at Faculty of Design, Fachhochule Bielefeld and Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities, University of Brighton. Awarded the Tom Buckeridge Photography award in the UK and the New Cosmos of Photography Award in Japan in 1997. Danner won attention with his 1999 collection "Blue Suburban Skies", financed by a grant from The Photographers' Gallery of London, that focused on the developing suburbs of that city. Visiting Japan that same year on a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), he applied his cool and delicate viewpoint to the scenery of a variety of regions. Danner's work focuses largely on "spaces", not only those found in architectural structures, but also larger spaces of the landscapes and entire cities that contain them, and the people who inhabit them. The natural and the artificial, the functional and the idiosyncratic, outdoor and indoor, hue and form. His eyes turn now to these spaces of today that are at odds among themselves even as the boundaries between them disappear. Distracted neither by received wisdom nor stereotype, Danner stakes out those "familiarities" that to him are real in his pursuit of these spaces and so provides us with new readings of the concept of the space. |
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| ■ Agnieszka Wolodzko (Poland) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born Gdansk in Poland, 1961. Resident
in Gdansk. In 1980-1986 Agnieszka studied at the Department of Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. She is currently engaged in a various projects as both an artist and a curator. Developing distinctive artistic activities with a free-ranging conceptualization not bound by existing categories, such as photography or contemporary art, her works employ not only photography but also such media as video, sound and text. Since 2000 she has been realizing on the ﾒBody on the Moveﾓ project as an expression of travel itself. She describes this project as "an action that isolates a fragment of my own life and inserts it into the art space." She shows her works in horizontal stripes of hundreds of pictures structured according to chronological orders. The work is a travelogue of her travels comprised of photographic and textual records, and for her the process of photography and the presentation of these works is identical to the telling of a story. |
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| ■ Margherita Spiluttini (Austria) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born Schwarzach / Salzburg in Austria
1947, resident in Vienna. Margherita has worked as a freelance photographer since 1981, showing her work in numerous one-woman shows and group exhibitions at home and overseas. Her collaborations with Adolf Krischanitz, the leading contemporary architect of Austria, and with Herzog & de Meuron, reknowned designers of the Tate Modern, are also highly regarded. She has been awarded both the Austrian Award and the Award of the City of Vienna, awarded to art photographers of outstanding merit. In 2000-2002 she taught as visiting lecturer at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. Margherita's eye turns towards contemporary society as seen through cities, architecture and landscapes. In 2002 she released "Beyond Nature. Constructions of Landscape". Assembled from nine years spent photographing the Alpine landscape, this series depicts the overwhelming beauty of those mountains coexisting in curious harmony with manmade quarries, roads and tunnels. Landscapes that are 100% natural "no longer exist". Her photographs are a fresh expression of the visible "effect" left by human efforts and technology. And this is the very "contemporary era" that we live in. |
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