The 24th edition of Paris Photo will take place in Paris, Thursday, November 11 through Sunday, November 14 with a preview day on Wednesday, November 10 (by invitation only) at the newly constructed Grand Palais Ephémère on the Champ de Mars facing the Eifffel Tower. For the occasion Sous Les Etoiles Gallery will present a solo show dedicated to the German artist and photographer Gottfried Jäger and his first monography of color works. Intersection of Color is published and edited by Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in a limited edition of 100 copies. The Deluxe Edition of the book, which includes a backlit print with a size of 12 x 9 inches / 30 x 24 cm numbered and hand signed by Gottfried Jäger. This limited edition of 10 copies will be presented for the first time at Paris Photo.
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, explores and challenges traditional categories of gender, nation, and photography, featuring works made since 2000 by women artists born or working in Europe. Many artists contend with representations of the body, with individual perspectives on beauty, femininity, objectification, and what it means to be an artist who identifies as a woman today. Selected from the collection of Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl—donated to LACMA and the Brooklyn Museum in 2021—the exhibition suggests that women photographers practicing in Europe today are global citizens pointing toward a future in which limiting statements can yield to productive questions. Two photographs of Carolle Benitah are include in this show : Le desguisment (2013) and La cicatrice (2013).
BOOK: PRE- LAUNCH OF INTERSECTION OF COLOR BY GOTTFRIED JÄGER
The Intersection of Color by Gottfried Jäger brings together his different approaches to photographic color formation in an exemplary manner. In this "color space" thus created, their paths cross from experiment to program, from abstraction to concretion, and from analog to computed color photographs of our time. This publication is the first coherent appearance of this group of works from 1960 to 2020. Intersection of Color is published and edited by Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in a limited edition of 100 copies. Each book is numbered and signed by Gottfried Jäger and will be launch for the occasion of Paris Photo 2021. Essays by Lyle Rexer and Bernd Stiegler.
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Over more than five decades, Jäger has explored the optics, mechanisms and materials of photography – and in this book, color photography specifically – to produce images that have no referents, no antecedents to their own process, and no umbilical cords to an observed world. In the profoundest sense, they are unprecedented.
LYLE REXER
Animato: The Work of Art in the Age of Potential Electronic Manipulation.
Audio-Visual Paraphrases of the Painting K XVII (1923) (1)
“Since production (creative composition) in particular plays an important role in human nature, we must try to develop the technical media (means) that have hitherto merely served the purpose of reproduction, putting them to productive use.” (2) László Moholy-Nagy
In 1995, for the centennial of László Moholy-Nagy’s birthday at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld Museum, Gottfried Jäger and Karl Martin Holzhäuser created and presented Animato, a 12-minute multimedia performance for computer-animated video, piano and percussion based on Moholy-Nagy’s painting K XVII (1923). Subtitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Potential Electronic Manipulation,” this video is a reference to the epoch-making essay by Walter Benjamin, published in 1936, “The Work of Art in the Age of Potential Mechanical Reproduction,” which was also the title of a collection of Benjamin’s essays first published in 1936.
In Animato, Jäger and Holzhäuser deconstructed the elements of the Moholy-Nagy’s painting and used computer programs to animate these same elements in a “controlled virtual movement.” The result of this new work “releases the material from its static state and renders it dynamic.