Salzburg

My mother in law arrives today. She is on a trip in Great Britain and comes for about one week to visit us. So tomorrow we are taking her for a trip to Salzburg. It is her birthday present and her big wish to see Salzburg and some things about Mozart and "The Sound Of Music". So a big family trip is in front of us, with mother in law and Blinky Bill our dog. It will be fun.

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© Michael Werner

Paris

Here are some more impressions from Paris!





© all images Michael Werner

Back from Paris

The weekend in Paris was absolutely fantastic. The city is just amazing, magical and extraordinary. I saw the Alec Soth show "The Space Between Us" at the Musée Jeu de Paume and it was really worthwhile to go on this trip for it.

In the first room were photographs from his "Portraits" series, then came the room with works from his "Fashion Magazine" project (the third photo is taken in this room). The next room was "Dog days Bogota" then came "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and the last room was "Niagara"

The prints are so wonderful in different sizes from small to really big. I spent a long time there and could not get enough from this fantastic photographs. To see the works in the books is one thing (which I also love) but to see the big prints on the wall is a totally different experience.



© all images Michael Werner

I also was able to spent the rest of the Saturday taking photos in Paris and I am really excited about the results. I am already looking forward to going back to Paris in only a few weeks ( on the 4th of July for 4 days) and continuing my new project in the city I absolutely love.

Paris I'm coming

Only a few hours and I am heading of to Paris. I will stay till Sunday evening and on Saturday I am going to go to see Alec Soth's solo show at the Musée Jeu de Paume, Place de la Concorde, Paris. I am looking forward to seeing the show. Here are some impressions from this amazing city.

I love Paris!!!



© all images Michael Werner

The Sparky Show - Opening Tonight

Tonight is the night! The Sparky Show opens at Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery Project Space, 637 West 27th Street (btw 11th and 12th Ave) NYC. The reception is from 6 - 8 pm, so if you are in NYC try to make it to the show. It's really worthwhile. Sparky and Nelson will welcome you!

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Jason Hanasik

Jason Hanasik just updated his website and added new projects incl. video-work on it. His new work is just wonderful. I really love his new projects. Here are some examples from different projects

Jason is also back on the blogosphere. Check out his Blog here


From the series "I love you but I have no idea what to do with you"
Victor, 2007


From the series "Range"
Range 216, 2007


From the series "He opened up somewhere along the eastern shore"
Steven (dirt), 2008,
© all images Jason Hanasik

Christian Patterson Interview

Peter Feldhaus who writes The Sonic Blog made a wonderful interview with Christian Patterson. Christian has a solo show at Galerie Kaune Sudendorf in Cologne, the show runs till May 16th. Check the interview out here

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The Sparky Show

© Nelson Santos and Sparky

Save this date: Thursday May 15, 6 - 8 p.m., opening reception
The Sparky Show at Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery Project Space 637 West 27th Street (btw 11th and 12th Ave) NYC

An exhibition of over 100 portraits of Sparky by...
David B. Abbott • Derrick Adams • Alex Aleixo • Meredith Allen • Stephen Andrews • Marina Ancona • Dominick Avellino • Thomas Bellof • Barton Lidice Benes • Kermit Berg • Dennis Bergevin • Vanessa Boer • Elizabeth Bonaventura • Joseph Brajcki • AA Bronson • Mary Button • Mark Carter • Janice Caswell • Niccolo Cataldi • Cat Celebrezze • Mark Chamberlain • Vincent Cianni • Chris Clary • Jon Coffelt • Albert Crudo • Megan Cump • Erika deVries • Marta Dell’Angelo • Danielle Dimston • William Donovan • Angela Dufresne • Neil Farber • Rachel Farmer • Sarah Farsad • John Findysz • Teresa Fogard • Martin Freeman • Milton Garcia-Ninja • Joy Garnett • Paul LeRoy Gehres • Laura Gilbert • Eric Ginsburg • Jeffrey Graul • Max Greenberg • Magalie Guerin • Kim Hanson • Jan Harrison • Michael Harwood • Alex Hetherington • David Humphrey • Derek Jackson • James Jaxxa • David King • Scooter LaForge • Aldo Lanzini • Lou Laurita • Jennifer Lehe • Marc Lepson • Serge J-F. Levy • Tim Lonergan • Gina Lovoi • Preston McGovern • Reyez Melendez • Toma Miller • Joe Monroe • Michael Muller • Stefanie Nagorka • Jeanine Oleson • Laura Sue Phillips • Drew Pisarra • Catya Plate • Amy Jean Porter • William Powhida • Carol Radsprecher • Richard Renaldi • Eric Rhein • Daniel Roberts • Nelson Santos • Joel Seah • Emily Severance • Frank Sheehan • Ethan Shoshan • Oren Slor • Clifford Smith • Thomas Somervile • Clare Stein • Stanley Stellar • Sur Rodney (Sur) • JD Talasek • Sam Tan • Steed Taylor • Tom Teebe • George Towne • Alexander Vasiljev • Alberto Velasco • Glenn Walls • Barbara Weissberger • Michael Werner • Robin Willis • Noel Wynn • Rob Wynne

I am happy and excited to be part of this wonderful project together with my friend Jan Harrison and Richard Renaldi and many other great artists.

So, if you are in New York, try to make it to the opening!

The Exhibition runs from May 15-June 28, 2008

More information about the project here

Alec Soth in Paris

The museum Jeu de Paume in Paris presents Alec Soth - The Space Between Us. The exhibition features 71 photographs: a selection from Alec Soth’s two acclaimed bodies of work, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004) and Niagara (2006) along with a selection of images from the series Dog Days, Bogotá (2007), Paris Minnesota (2007) and his ongoing project, Portraits.

I decided spontaneously that I would really love to see this show. So I am going to drive on Friday May 16th to Paris and see the show on Saturday. I am already looking forward to seeing all the original photographs from one of my favorite photographers. Cool, Paris I'm coming.


© Musee Jeu de Paume

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Petition to stop Guillermo Vargas Habacuc from starving another dog to death in the name of art

Today I received and email from Dan and I was truly shocked what I read. I signed the petition immediately. For me this is not art, this is a crime and an evil act of murderer.

The letter I received is as follows

In the 2007, the "artist" Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starved him to death.

For several days, the "artist" and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful installation based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.

But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the "installation" was actually art, and Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.

Click on the following link to help stop him:

Click here

It's free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 10 seconds of your time to help save the life of an innocent creature.

Thank you for your time and please forward to as many as possible and post it on your blog to help prevent this from happening.

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© Michael Werner

American Beauty

Here is a great video that shows Stephen Shore using his 8"x10" camera and much more. I love it.

Wolfgang Tillmans

The German Photographer and Turner Prize Award Winner in 2000, Wolfgang Tillmans has a spectacular show in Berlin. The exhibition is called "Lighter" and the venue is the Hamburger Bahnhof he in Berlin. The show begins with the early photocopy works, continues with a reconstruction of the multipart Turner Prize room and the politically oriented table installation “Truth Study Center.” The focus of the conclusion is the latest pieces. I love Tillmans' work and the show is really worth a travel. It runs from March 21st through August 24th at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50- 51 · 10557 Berlin



© Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer55, 2004, c-print,

Working Worlds

© all images Mitch Epstein

Today I saw a small but fine exhibition with works of Richard Avedon, Barbara Klemm, Wouter Deruytter, Mitch Epstein, Ville Lenkkeri and Sebastião Salgado.

The DZ Bank in Frankfurt has one of the worlds biggest and finest collections of contemporary photography. In the foyer of one of their glamorous buildings in Frankfurt they have a small gallery where they show several exhibitions a year. Since I love the photographs of Mitch Epstein I was absolutely thrilled to see his original prints. I would have loved to just put the works in my car and then put them on my own walls.

Unfortunately the website of the bank with the collection is only in German. For everyone who can read German, check it out here