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Issued September 2015
Tom Sandberg, Untitled, 2005. Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Contemporary Photography from North Western Europe
Tom Sandberg. Around myself
Modena, Foro Boario, September 18, 2015 – January 10, 2016
The Fondazione Fotografia Modena is pleased to announce Contemporary
Photography from North Western Europe, on display at the Modena Foro Boario
from September 18, 2015, through January 10, 2016.
The exhibition features the most recent photography purchases by the Fondazione
Cassa di risparmio di Modena, which concern north-western Europe and have never
been shown before: around 70 works by 19 artists, from Wolfgang Tillmans to Jonny
Briggs, which together evoke the vibrancy and heterogeneous nature of the current
trends of a geographical area that takes in Germany, the UK and Scandinavia.
Core of the exhibition will be an important tribute to Norwegian photographer Tom
Sandberg (1953 – 2014), whose works are meant to dialogue with those of other
European artists on display. The whole installation is organized by Filippo Maggia,
Director of Fondazione Fotografia Modena.
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Contemporary Photography from North Western Europe.
Established in 2007, the contemporary photography collection of the Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio di Modena has been enriched piece-by-piece over the years
through various series of acquisitions concentrated on different geographical areas:
from Africa to the Far East, from the US to South America, and from India to Eastern
Europe. The collection currently includes more than 1200 works by almost 200
artists: an exceptionally wide-ranging cultural asset that the Fondazione Fotografia
Modena, as a special purpose vehicle, aims to make the most of through its
painstaking commitment to cataloguing, conserving and displaying.
As before, this new exhibition will feature the same openness that has always been
a feature of the collection. The plurality and variety of the artists on show are, then,
among the main strengths of this new set of works (to be followed in due course by
a second set, concerned with South-Western Europe), encompassing everything
from landscapes to portraits, staged photography to snapshots, and even
incorporating reportage and installations. The artists deal with a multitude of
themes, facing up to the most pressing matters that real life requires us to focus on,
and investigating issues linked to the history of the medium of photography and the
nature of contemporary images.
Contemporary Photography from North Western Europe features works by Morten
Andenæs (1979, Norway), Johann Arens (1981, Germany), Jonny Briggs (1985,
United Kingdom), Willie Doherty (1959, North Ireland), Annabel Elgar (1971, United
Kingdom),
Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir (1984, Islanda), IlkKa Halso (1965,
Finlandia), Sarah Jones (1959, United Kingdom), Sanna Kannisto (1974, Finland),
Sandra Kantanen (1974, Finland), Astrid Kruse Jensen (1975, Denmark), Lilly Lulay
(1985, Germany), Melissa Moore (1978, United Kingdom), Barbara Probst (1964,
Germany), Olivier Richon (1956, Switzerland/ United Kingdom), Tom Sandberg
(1953 – 2014, Norway), Trine Søndergaard (1972, Denmark), Wolfgang Tillmans
(1968, Germany), Gillian Wearing (1963, United Kingdom).
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Skira.
Tom Sandberg. Around myself
Born in Narvik in 1953 and prematurely passed away in 2014, Tom Sandberg is
one of the most celebrated Norwegian contemporary photographers.
The 2007 exhibition at MoMA PS1 entitled Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–
2006 brought his work to the attention of the American public and critics, giving an
international dimension to a reputation that had already been consolidated in
Scandinavia.
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In his thirty-year career, Sandberg almost always worked with large formats and
black-and- white film, promoting an idea of pure, direct photography that is rooted in
the American photographic tradition of the early twentieth century. Without ever
lapsing into strict fanaticism, and maintaining at all times the maximum expressive
freedom, the artist inherited from straight photography an attitude of enhancing the
aesthetic qualities of the photographic language and reducing to a minimum any
editing on the images, such as cropping or manipulations at the developing or
printing stages.
For Sandberg, photography is a means to experiment with the world in an
unhindered, non-hierarchical way. Whether the subject matter is a car parked in the
street or the sinuous body of a model, the lush greenery of nature or geometric
architectural details, his photographs embody a powerful seductive charge,
nourished by the sensitivity that has always marked out the artist’s perspective. In
addition, his works are a reflection on photographic vision itself: the formal purity of
the images often moves towards abstraction, exposing the viewer to all of the
enigmatic power and the potential for mystery implicit in the act of perception and
in every form of representation.
Contemporary Photography from North Western Europe and Tom Sandberg. Around
Myself are organized by the Fondazione Fotografia Modena and the Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio di Modena in partnership with UniCredit, traditionally committed
to supporting arts and culture in its relevant territory. Both are part of the
festivalfilosofia 2015 programme, to be held in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo in
September, 18-20. This edition will be thematically linked to the notion of
“inheriting”.
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Basic information
exhibitions
Contemporary Photography
from North Western Europe. Chapter 1
catalogue
Contemporary Photography from North-Western
Europe
Skira, Milano 2015.
Tom Sandberg. Around myself
period
September 18, 2015 – January 10, 2016
venue
Foro Boario
Modena, Via Bono da Nonantola, 2
organized by
Fondazione Fotografia Modena
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
opening
Friday, September 18, 2015, 7 pm
press preview
Tuesday, September 17, 2015, 10.30 am
opening hours
Wednesday-Friday 3-7 pm
Saturday-Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
closed Monday and Tuesday
during the festivalfilosofia
Friday, September 18, 9 am – 11 pm
Saturday, September 19, 9 am – 12 pm
Sunday, September 20, 9 am – 9 pm
admission
€ 5,00
free on Wednesday
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Contemporary Photography from North Western Europe. Chapter 1
Press images to download at www.fondazionefotografia.org/press
Morten Andenæs
View, 2012
Giclée print on alluminium
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Collection
Hallgerdur Hallgrimsdottir
Yield, 2014
ink jet print
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Collection
Astrid Jensen
Disappearing into the Past, nr.55, 2012
archival fiber print
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Collection
Sarah Jones
The Rose Gardens (Orange) (I), 2002
c-print on alluminium
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Collection
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Lux, 2009
Inkjet print
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Collection
Gillian Wearing
Me As Talbot, 2013
gelatin silver print
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
Collection
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Hallgerdur Hallgrimsdottir
Untitled, 2012
ink jet print
copyright the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Collection
Ilkka Halso
Garden with a View, Inside view, 2010
c-print
courtesy the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Collection
Sandra Kantanen
Untitled (Pink Flowers), 2013
pigment print
courtesy Gallery Taik Persons
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
di Modena Collection
Olivier Richon
After Joseph of Derby, Arkwright
Mills at Night, 1990
c-print
courtesy the artist
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
di Modena Collection
FONDAZIONE FOTOGRAFIA MODENA
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Tom Sandberg. Around Myself
Press images to download at www.fondazionefotografia.org/press
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2009
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2006
Courtesy: Christopher Westberg
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2007
Courtesy: Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2005
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
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Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2006
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2010
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2006
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2003
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2004
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate
Tom Sandberg
Untitled, 2003
Courtesy: Tom Sandberg Estate