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>> OCTOBER 16 - NOVEMBER 11 | 2010
INSTANT DREAMS
Frank Picture Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Vernissage October 24 / 18.00h
Opening Hours
Tue-Sat 11.30-18.30h
or by appointment
Bergamot Station, A-5 - 2525 Michigan Avenue - Santa Monica, CA 90404 - phone 310.828.0211, contact: Laurie@frankpicturesgallery.com
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Frank Pictures Gallery is proud to present renowned photographer Stefanie Schneider’s show “Instant Dreams” from October 16th to November 11th, with an artist’s reception on Sunday, October 24th. This is Schneider’s second exhibition with gallerist Laurie Frank, as she introduced Schneider’s first US solo show at her Still/Moving venue in 1998. Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider is known for using expired Polaroid instant film material to achieve an effect of washed-out colors and random artifacts from the deprecation of the chemicals. These serendipitous chemical color explosions spread across the surfaces to undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Combined with her preferred choice of location, 29 Palms, CA, (which served as location and title to one of her books and films), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded film stills. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. Schneider shot the album cover for the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Desecration Smile" single and all the photography for Cyndi Lauper's "Bring Ya to the Brink" album as well as Daisy McCracken, with whom she frequently collaborates.
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view website: http://frankpicturesgallery.com/
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>> SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 30 | 2010
INSTANT DREAMS
30works Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Vernissage September 18 / 20.00h
Opening Hours
Mo-Fr 15-20.00h, Sa 11-20.00h
or by appointment
Antwerpener Str. 42 - 50672 Köln - 0221/5700250
view website: www.30works.de
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>> SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 30 | 2010
TREIBSAND IN DER KALIFORNISCHEN WÜSTE
curated by Adi Hoesle
Künstlerhaus "Kaufhaus Klein", Burgau, Germany
Vernissage September 24 / 20.00h
Opening Hours
Mo-Fr 19-22.00h, Sa 17-22.00h
or by appointmentHans Riethmüller - Käppelstrasse 6 - 89331 Burgau - 08222/1209
view website: www.kaufhaus-klein.de
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ART FAIR>> OCTOBER 21 - OCTOBER 24 | 2010public hours daily 12-8pm, ticket price: 10 Euros, free for art students
WOMEN ONLY
SHOW OFF Paris Solo Project "Women Only" presented by Catherine and André Hug Gallery, Paris
Location: Port des Champs Elysées, Paris
view website: www.showoffparis.fr
For its fifth edition, SHOW OFF 2010 becomes the SOLO SHOW art fair of Paris. Show OFF will take place October 21-24, 2010 during Paris’ Contemporary Art Week and will be set in a lumious, elegant tent in the heart of Paris, a few steps away from the Grand Palais and the banks of the Champs Elysees. Painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video, and installation; all media will be represented in a unique format highly favorable to participating artists.
The Catherine and André Hug Gallery seeks to discover young talent and promote them internationally. The gallery works largely with artists exploring the times, and techniques of their time. The German Photographer Stefanie Schneider will offer photographic portraits of the American West exploring the fragility of the America dream. In her series Schneider tests the limits of the Polaroid and all its chromatic aberrations as part of a carefully crafted motif of halos and holes representative of a second reality.
La galerie Catherine et André Hug pour objectif de découvrir de jeunes talents et d’en faire la promotion internationale. Le choix de la galerie sur des artistes exploitant les technique de leurs temps et des thèmes évocateurs proches des préoccupations actuelles.
La photographe allemande Stefanie Schneider est l’artiste présenteée cette par la galerie. Au travers de photographies de l’ouest des Etats-Unis, Stefanie Schneider fait transparaître la fragilité du rêve américain. Dans ses séries photographiques où elle tient souvant le premier rôle, l’utilisation exclusive du matériel Polaroid périmé provoquent des aberrations chromatiques, des trous et des halos, qui se posent sur les motifs arrangés avec soin comme uns seconde réalité.
view website: www.showoffparis.fr
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>> JUNE 27 - SEPTEMBER 19 | 2010
Mapping Worlds: Welten verstehen –
Aufbruch in die Gegenwart
8. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2010 Venues: Villa Merkel, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerie im Heppächer
Dream No.4 (from Sidewinder) | diptych, C-Prints mounted WOOD | 154 x 125 cm each | Edition of 5
Further information: www.foto-triennale.de
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>> DECEMBER 11 | 2009 - JANUARY 23 | 2010
in cooperation with Nathan Köstlin
and EFFIGIES, PARISA Stefanie Schneider exhibition introducing works by Daisy McCrackin, Camille Waldorf & Max Sharam.
29 PALMS, CA is a feature film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert.
Please join us for the opening reception on Dec 11, 2009 at 19.30 h
Opening hours: Daily 19.00 - 2.00 h
Public Transport U2, U6 STADTMITTE
PH +49 (0)30 20 87 99 97 / +49 (0)30 20 87 99 98
email: artbar71@ googlemail.com
please visit: www.twentyninepalms.ca [ the 29 Palms, CA project ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Movies
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- Jun 22, 2010 11:36 AM Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2010
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29 PALMS, CA is a feature film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert.
The world depicted in the film is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. The characters portrait in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on), are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them.
The structure of the plot is fairly simple. An actress working as a telemarketer is inspired by a singer who is new to town and is featured on the local radio station. The radio station runs a program for lonely hearts and a charismatic DJ uses the show to reveal the hopes and dreams of the towns “hottest women”. One night a panicked German female caller captivates the community with a painful story about a sexy “Smoke Jumper” (a mysterious and super real alpha male). Everybody in town is listening to the program and nobody is quite sure what to say.
Life in general continues and we witness and explore the various interactions. The actress meets the singer and they become famous. The US Army soldier dies on his way to battle. The foreign princess discovers that the jewels she has come to sell are fake. The motel owner‘s wife has an affair with the pool boys and so on. All the while the community is united by their loyalty to the “Lonely Hearts” radio show and through the disturbing revelations of the German woman and the details of her sordid affair. The stories she tells are explored through the imaginations of the listeners and through the memories of the teller. The smoke jumper becomes a pervasive figure who in some way effects the lives of all those who listen to the story. He seduces women, is linked to a local thievery, a rape and a possible death. The story comes to conclusion when this chaotic character quits town leaving in his wake a trail of destruction and despair. What is left is a void, a space for transformation as the wounded community rediscovers itself in its quest to make sense of what has happened.
A defining feature of the film is the use of still images and the use of voice over. Characters talk to us / themselves / you about their ambitions, memories, hopes, fears and dreams. The film is to be shot using a mix of super 8 and 16mm film stock and Polaroid images. Certain computer generated effects will also be used to enhance the films surreal mood and to animate its dark humor.
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