CONTRIBUTORS
ISSUE 08/AUTUMN 2011
MARIANA MAURICIO
is the Pop-Up protagonist, with work from her series Move in Still Memories. Born 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, she received her BFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her work has been shown across the UK, and is included in collections such as Frank-Suss and the University of Arts, London, the city in which she is currently based. Working with found photographs and oxidized negatives from the 60s to 80s, Mauricio deconstructs images of affluent Brazilian families during an era of dictatorship and havoc. She interrupts the supposed seamlessness of a staged and discarded history by painting, peeling, scratching, sewing, and bleaching images, creating a new atmosphere imbued with anxiety. Subverting an otherwise perfect world into one of intimate chaos, these reconstructed narratives are at once personal and political. Mauricio then scans the adjusted photographs and shifts the medium from photograph to giclée prints, enlarging and distorting their scale to circumnavigate the images into the present, reframing these interrupted narratives.
SIMON CASTETS
is based in New York, where he works as an independent curator. He holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and another in Cultural Management from Sciences Po in Paris. Recent projects include the group exhibitions Christmas in July at Yvon Lambert, New York, and Aftermath at Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto. xmasinjuly.org | aftermath.fr
BENJAMIN GODSILL
is a curator based in New York. Projects he has orchestrated have taken place in locations as bizarre and beautiful as Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and Citta della Pieve, Italy, as well as at the New Museum in New York. He plays well with others.
JOSEPH GRIMA
is an architect and researcher based in Milan. He is the Editor in Chief of Domus magazine and the former director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, a nonprofit exhibition and events space in New York City. He teaches at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow, and is a regular contributor to a wide range of international publications. Recent projects include LandGrab City and the New City Reader.
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TOM McDONOUGH
is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His most recent book is the anthology The Situationists and the City, 2009. Other publications include The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968, and the anthology Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. He publishes regularly in journals such as Art in America, Artforum, Documents, Grey Room, OCTOBER, and Texte zur Kunst. McDonough has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, and a recipient of an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. He is an editor at Grey Room. mitpressjournals.org/grey
PETER NAGY
graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1981 with a degree in Communication Design. In 1982 he opened Gallery Nature Morte in New York City with Alan Belcher, which became identified with media-derived and theoretical art forms. He moved the gallery to New Delhi and reopened it in 1997 to specialize in contemporary Indian art. Nature Morte was the first gallery in India to participate in art fairs such as The Armory Show in New York, FIAC in Paris, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach. In 2008, a branch was opened in Berlin. naturemorte.com
PAOLA NICOLIN
is an art historian and critic who teaches at Luigi Bocconi University and works as Art Editor of Abitare. She holds a PhD in Theory and History of Arts, and a Master’s degree in History of Architecture. She has authored essays and articles for Log, Manifesta Journal, Untitled, Artpress, Flash Art, Mousse, Artforum, and curates the column “On Exhibition” for Kaleidoscope. Her new book, Castelli di Carte. La XIV Triennale di Milano, is published in 2011 and focuses on the problem of exhibiting. Nicolin is currently serving the Municipal Councilor for Culture in Milan as an advisor for contemporary art.
ARTHUR OU
works in photography, sculpture and installation, deploying these differing contexts to elicit questions concerning modernism, assimilation, historiography and documentation. He has exhibited recently at LAXART, Los Angeles, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, and Artereal Gallery, Sydney. Ou holds an MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. He is an Assistant Professor in the Photography Program at the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design.
GIANLUIGI RICUPERATI
is an Italian writer. He has published four books of literary non-fiction and his first novel, Il mio impero è nell'aria, 2011, won the Italian Literary Prize Dessì. He regularly contributes to La Repubblica and is a special correspondent for Domus. He is curating a series of interdisciplinary events at Castello di Rivoli, the museum of contemporary art in Turin, the city in which he is based.
JOANNE JUNGA YANG
is Director at Y&G Art Global contemporary project, an agency specialized in exchange of fine art photography and the introduction of international artists to the Asian public. Y&G Art combines Korea’s first art photography agency with galleries, museums, festivals, and magazines. Yang is a curator of Seoul Photo Festival, Korea's leading annual photography festival. She has contributed many articles to diverse magazines, interviewed international artists and introduced their work to the Korean media. She is the chief editor of Point: Asian contemporary art magazine, and was a guest editor for Monthly Photography, the most authoritative monthly photography publication in Korea.
ISSUE 07/SUMMER SPRING 2011
JOHN OPERA
is the protagonist of this issue’s Pop Up section. Opera’s series Anthotypes harkens back to the seminal moments of photography’s prehistory. During the mid 18th century, it was discovered that pigmented solutions derived from various flower and fruit extracts are light sensitive enough to be used as rudimentary print emulsions. This process takes up to three weeks of exposure in direct sunlight to render an image. Opera uses the Anthotype process to emphasize the dialectic between photography’s surface qualities and its qualities as illusionistic and indexical space. These works also make reference to the inherent relationship between liquid chemical reactions inside the natural world and their connected activity that brings a traditional photographic image into being. The Anthotypes are object-images that are allegories of the alchemical qualities of photographic image formation and its complex relationship with the physical experience of seeing. Opera is an artist and educator based in Chicago. In 2009, he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; a catalog accompanying the exhibition has been published by Aperture. johnopera.com.
AMY MACKIE
is the Director of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. She was previously a Curatorial Associate at the New Museum in New York. Mackie was the recipient of a 2009 CEC Artslink Grant to organize a project in Sofia, Bulgaria and completed a fellowship in 2010 at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK, where she researched the work of Helen Chadwick.
ANDRÈ PRINCIPE
Porto, Portugal, 1976, works with photography, film and video. He has exhibited solo shows extensively in Portugal and in many international group shows. He published Tunnels in 2005 with Booth-Clibborn Editions, and Master and Everyone, and I Thought You Knew Where All of the Elephants Lie Down with his own Pierre von Kleist Editions in 2010. Smell of Tiger precedes Tiger will be published in 2011. He co-directed Traces of a Diary with Marco Martins, a 16mm film shot in Japan. Currently he’s working on Before the Ghost House and Flamingo Field Without Flamingos, a road movie to be shot in Portugal. He lives in Lisbon. pierrevonkleist.com
BENJAMIN GODSILL
is a curator based in New York. Projects he has orchestrated have taken place in locations as bizarre and beautiful as Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and Città della Pieve, Italy, as well as at the New Museum in New York. He plays well with others.
CAROLINA FUENTES
Saltillo, Mexico, 1977, studied graphic design and photography. She works as a freelance photographer and opened her own studio in 2007, focusing on advertising, industrial and portrait photography. Her artistic projects are primarily centered on land and cityscape imagery, a result of her love for travel. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally, and was selected to attend the Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2010.
DEVIKA DAULET-SINGH
is the director of Photoink, a New Delhi-based photo agency, publisher and gallery. She was the associate curator of the Indian photography presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2007. In 2009, she co-curated The Self and The Other - Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography at the Palau de la Virreina and Artium in Spain. photoink.net
EMMA REEVES
a freelance creative consultant working in a broad field from curation to photographic commissioning for brands. Former photographic director at London-based Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man, she currently lives in New York and is on the board of the Swiss Institute.
FRANCESCA TAROCCO
is a scholar and critic based between Shanghai and London. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on pivotal moments in the history of modern Chinese culture, ranging from the cultural practices of early 20th century Shanghai, to the emergence of globalization and new media over the past decade. She contributes to many international journals and magazines and is the author of The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma, Routledge, 2007; Karaoke: the Global Phenomenon, Reaktion Books and Chicago University Press, 2007; and New Chinese Writers, Mondadori, 2008.
GERRY BADGER
is a photographer, architect, and photography critic born in Northampton, England, in 1946. Among his books are The Genius of Photography, 2007; The Pleasures of Good Photographs, Aperture, 2010, winner of the ICP Infinity Writer’s Award, 2011. He published The Photobook: A History, 2 vols., 2004 and 2006, with Martin Parr, which won the Kraszna Krausz Prize in 2007.
KATIA FIORENTINO
was born in Ischia and moved to London in 1994 to study art direction and costuming. She lives and works in London as an illustrator and costume designer.
WALTER GUADAGNINI
was born in Italy in 1961. He currently lives and works in Bologna where, since 1992, has held a professorship in History of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts. He has curated numerous international exhibitions, including Pop Art! 1956 – 1968 at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, and was Commissaire Unique for the Italian section of Paris Photo in 2007. Between 1995 and 2005, he was head of the Galleria Civica in Modena. Since 2004 he is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the UniCredit & Art Project, and the head of photography section of Il Giornale dell’Arte.
SHELLEY FOX AARONS
is a board certified psychiatrist who maintained a private practice in NYC for many years, before retiring to spend more time looking at, reading about, and collecting contemporary art, primarily the work of living artists. With her husband, Philip E. Aarons, she has provided support for many not for profit arts institutions, exhibitions, and artist publications. She is a trustee of The New Museum in NYC.
TIM MILLS
Born 1981 in Swindon, UK, is an independent photographic facilitator and lecturer who works as an associate with Fotonow, a community interest company that develops lens based practice and research in the southwest of England. fotonow.org.
ISSUE 06/WINTER 2010
IRINA POLIN
(1971) is a Russian-born, Switzerland-based artist, and the protagonist of this issue’s Pop-Up section. She studied in Moscow at The Arts College Named After the Memory of Year 1905 and the School of Art and Design in Lucerne. She is the recipient of several photography prizes and her work has been widely published and presented in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Russia and South Africa. My Collection, the series presented in this issue, is a semi-autobiographical project inspired by her migration from Russia to Switzerland. The rediscovery of a box filled with Soviet porcelain figurines, glass objects, postcards, books and ephemera - brought from Moscow and with time, forgotten - prompted the artist’s present day reconstruction of her history. What she constructs is a world of objects, and in these objects, the eternity attached to them, to their emotional invocations and to their survival. There within lies the human element - for all of these things are not only universally recognizable, but charged with a painstaking restoration.
LARA AMARCEGUI
(1972) her work has recently been exhibitited in group shows like Portscapes, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Radical Nature, Barbican Art Centre London, at the Athens Biennale, Taipei and Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, among others. In the past year, she had solo exhibitions at Secession, Vienna and Ludlow 38, New York. Ruins in the Netherlands was presented at Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, in 2008. She currently resides in Rotterdam.
GIORGIO BARRERA
(1969) graduated in photography from La Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, where he now teaches. After a period of collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz, he became interested in sociology, focusing on the rituals of daily life as well as landscape photography, video and films. His work has been published in a number of books and international magazines and won several prizes. He participated twice at Les Rencontres d’Arles and showed at the Art Institute of Chicago. His recent solo exhibitions were at Jarach Gallery, Venice, Galleria 42, Modena, and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome.
MARC FEUSTEL
is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the editor of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945–1964. He is a Creative Director at Studio Equis, an organization devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Japan and the West. His next exhibitions: Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory, will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney in May 2011. He regularly contributes to photography magazines including FOAM, Images, Réponses Photo and VU MAG, and blogs as well. eyecurious.com
ALEX GARTENFELD
is an art critic and Online Editor for Interview Magazine and Art in America. He is the co-founder of an independent space called West Street Gallery in New York. weststreet.info
NATALIE MARIE GEHRELS
was born and raised in Northern California and moved to Europe at the age of eighteen. She is a photographer, art director, and co-founder of the creative studio Ouruse. She lives and works in New York.
JORDAN HRUSKA
is a Brooklyn-based arts writer, critic and journalist. His writing has appeared in various books and anthologies as well as periodicals such as The New York Times, Purple, Next American City and the online editions of The Economist, Vogue Italia, T Magazine, Art in America and Interview, among others. He is the co-author of a forthcoming book on architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House library collection.
FRANCESCO JODICE
graduated in 1997 with a degree in Architecture. His research investigates the changes in social landscapes comparing similar phenomena in different parts of the world through photography, film, maps and texts. He teaches at the Università di Bolzano and at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Milan. In 2008, he was commissioned by the UN to create a short film on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He has participated in Documenta, La Biennale di Venezia, Bienal de São Paulo, Liverpool Biennial, ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. He has also exhibited his work at the Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofia, Castello di Rivoli, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Bard College and MAMbo. He lives in Milan.
STEPHANIE SNYDER
is the Anne and John Hauberg Director and Curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. In 1991 she graduated from Reed College, and received her MA from Columbia University and she has currently completing her Ph.D in Art History at the University of the Arts, London. She curated numerous exhibitions including; Terry Winters: Linking Graphics, Liza Ryan, Spill, David Reed, Lives of Paintings, Marc Joseph, New and Used, and Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong. In 2007 she was awarded a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Getty Foundation to support her work on Post-WWII Conceptual Art.
DAVID TUNG
works as a Director for the Long March Space, in Beijing.
ISSUE 05/AUTUMN 2010
BATIA SUTER
(1967) is a Swiss born, Amsterdam-based artist and the protagonist of this Fantom Pop-Up section. She studied at the art academies of Zürich and Arhem (NL), and was also trained at the Werkplaats Typografie. Suter produces monumental prints of digitally manipulated images, often made for specific locations, and works on photo-animations, image sequences and collages, often using found pictures. In 2007 she published Parallel Encyclopedia (Roma Editions), an extremely rich, well crafted volume containing a composition of images taken from books she has collected along the years. The underlying themes of her practice are the ‘iconification’ and ‘immunogenicity’ of images, and the circumstances and causes by which they become charged with associative added values. At what point does an intangible familiarity arise? Where does an image become a cliché or an eye catcher? Where is the boundary between failure and the sublime? Batia Suter has extensively exhibited in the Netherlands, in Germany and her native Switzerland, the recipient of numerous prizes, such as The Governor of Osaka Prefecture, The Excellent Work, and Canon’s 27th New Cosmos of Photography. She has exhibited at The Third Gallery Aya and Visual Arts Gallery in Osaka and at the Visual Arts Gallery in Tokyo. Her book on the Gunkan Apartments was published by Toseisha in 2008.
DANIELE DAINELLI
is a photojournalist born in Livorno (Italy) in 1967. With his project Metropolis, a series of color photo essays on the world’s largest capitals, he attracted the attention of the most prestigious international newspapers. After moving to New York, he recorded the changes of the city both before and after September 11. In 2004 he moved to Tokyo, which has become the subject of his most recent works. He is represented by photoagency Contrasto.
ANGELO FLACCAVENTO
is an independent fashion writer based in Italy and contributes to a roster of Italian and international publications. He is currently the fashion features editor at The End magazine, and a contributing editor to GQ Italia, L’Uomo Vogue, Il Sole - 24 Ore, and Luxury24.it. He regularly writes for Fantastic Man and Zoo, and is the fashion co-curator at Fondazione Claudio Buziol in Venice.
ALEX GARTENFELD
is an art critic and Online Editor for Interview Magazine and Art in America. He is the co-founder of an independent space called West Street Gallery in New York.
RUPERT GOLDSWORTHY
is an artist, writer and curator based in New York City and Berlin. His most recent book is Consuming//Terror: Images of the Baader-Meinhof (Verlag Dr. Muller.).
WALTER GUADAGNINI
was born in Cavalese, Trento (Italy) in 1961. He currently lives and works in Bologna, where since 1992, he has held a professorship in History of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009 he curated the exhibition Past Present Future - Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection at the Kunstforum in Vienna and Verona. In 2007 he curated the show Pop Art! 1956-1968 at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome and was ‘Commissaire Unique’ for the Italian section of Paris Photo. Between 1995 and 2005 he was head of the Galleria Civica in Modena. Since 2004 he is Chair of the Scientific Committee of the
UniCredit & Art project, and since 2004 he is head of the photography section of Il Giornale dell’Arte.
LUCA NOSTRI
(1976) studied sociology at the University of Bologna (Italy) and is the founder and editor of Lugo Land, a photographic research project based in Lugo, Ravenna. In 2008, his photography series L’Isola di Ciurli was exhibited at Nuit de l’Europe, a project sponsored by Les Rencontres d’Arles. In 2010 he received a scholarship from the American Academy in Rome as the Italian Fellow of the Arts.
BARON OSUNA
(1975) has lived and worked in Kyoto since 2006 and founded Super Window Project in December 2007 to lead initiatives in the field of contemporary art. Super Window Project represents Bouke de Vries, Bernard Joisten, Guillaume Leingre, Perrine Lievens, Soshi Matsunobe, Mathieu Mercier, Aurélie Pétrel, Sandrine
Pelletier, Takashi Suzuki, and Morgane Tschiember. The gallery will be a new entry at Artissima 17.
EMMA REEVES
is Managing Editor of V Magazine and V Man in New York, and former photographic director at London-based Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man.
MICHELE ROBECCHI
is a writer and curator based in London. Former Senior Editor of Contemporary Magazine (2005-2007), he is currently an editor for contemporary art at Phaidon Press and a Visiting Lecturer at Christie’s Education.
IVAN VARTANIAN
is a native of New York City. In 1997, he moved to Tokyo where he started producing, editing, and authoring books on photography and art through his company Goliga Books. His most recent publication is Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & ‘70s, which was published in multiple language editions and received
the 2010 Historical Photobook Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. Vartanian currently lives and works in Tokyo, with regular visits to see mom back in Queens.
ISSUE 04/SUMMER 2010
GIUSEPPE GABELLONE
this Fantom’s Pop-Up artist, was born in 1973 in Brindisi (Italy.) After studying at Milan’s Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris, where he lives and works. The photographs in this recent series capture quintessentially the nature and praxis of his work. Gabellone mounted fabric printed with found images onto simple structures, which he photographed outdoors in apt, albeit odd, circumstances before allegedly destroying them. The physicality of sculpture melts into the absence of a photographic object: a mysterious universe. A photographic work that is as original as the destiny of Gabellone’s scaled out, temporary, constantly evolving constructions.
MARC JOSEPH BERG
was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Several exhibitions of his pictures have been mounted in the United States and Europe, and his most recent monograph, New and Used, was published by Steidl in 2006. He lives and works in New York City, where he also teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
TAKASHI HOMMA
is a photographer based in Tokyo. In January 2011 his first mid-career retrospective will open at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and then travel to Tokyo and other cities. His website betweenbooks.com includes a blog about his works and is also a place to talk about contemporary photography.
PETER IRMAI
is a German photographer and graphic designer based in Cologne. A series of professional residencies in Istanbul, Rome, Paris, Malta and more recently in Russia, have turned into photographic projects.
MIKIKO KITUTA
has curated photography and contemporary art exhibitions in Europe and Japan. Since 2002 she has been artistic director of the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today and is one of the directors of the Shiogama Photo Festival. She lives in Tokyo.
TOM MCDONOUGH
is Associate Professor of Modern Architecture and Urbanism in the Art History department at Binghamton University (New York), and an editor of Grey Room, a journal bringing together contributions from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.
MASSIMO PAMPARANA
is a fashion and portrait photographer. He was born in Milan, where he lives and works, in 1979, studied cinema and screenwriting at Columbia College in Chicago and at UCLA, and had his first job assisting famed fashion photographer Giampaolo Barbieri. He now works for brands and magazines like Italian Amica, Hero, German GQ Style and Slurp.
KATIE RASHID
works as director at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Previously she was a director at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago where she also co-founded and ran Duchess, a gallery dedicated to showing work by emerging artists.
GIANLUIGI RICUPERATI
is an Italian writer. He has published four books of literary non-fiction while his first novel is due out in 2011. He regularly contributes to the Sunday supplement of Il Sole-24 Ore, he is a special correspondent for the magazine Abitare, and is curating a series of interdisciplinary events at Castello di Rivoli, the museum of contemporary art in Turin, where he lives.
YUTAKA YAMASHITA
was born 1970 in the prefecture of Osaka, Japan, where he lives. His photographic work has received numerous prizes, such as The Governor of Osaka Prefecture, The Excellent Work, and Canon’s 27th New Cosmos of Photography. He has exhibited at The Third Gallery Aya and Visual Arts Gallery in Osaka and at the Visual Arts Gallery in Tokyo. His book on the Gunkan Apartments was published by Toseisha in 2008.
ISSUE 03/SPRING 2010
TAISUKE KOYAMA
lives and works in Tokyo, where he was born in 1978. With extracts from his series Entropix (a focal point of his activity, compound of “entropy”, “picture” and “pixel”), Rainbow Form, Starry and Thousand Impacts, he is the protagonist of this Fantom Pop-Up section. “My works can be described as ‘organic abstract photography’, which depicts the phenomenon and surface of the city by using microlenses. I have studied the two opposing elements, city and nature, and understood that organic and inorganic exist in one intimate circulation. This made me doubt general ideas, opening my attitude to this world with a sense of diversity. So I hope that by looking at my pictures people will see and find something they have missed before, or gain new viewpoints, freely, just like when you listen to music”.
REZA ARAMESH
was born in Awhaz, Iran, in 1970 and moved to London at the age of sixteen. He studied sciences and then art, eventually earning his MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmith College in 1997. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group shows in the UK and abroad. He lives and works in London.
MARCELO KRASILCIC
is a Brazilian American artist born in São Paulo into an eastern European Jewish family. He moved to New York in 1990 to study photography at the New York University and yoga at the Jivamukti Center and Patanjali Yoga Shala. Since graduating from NYU, Marcelo started exhibiting his artwork in galleries and museums and contributing to magazines such as Purple, Dazed & Confused, Interview and Visionaire. Marcelo continues to live in New York, and he travels extensively working in the fields of advertising, portraiture, art and fashion photography. The Last Decade, Marcelo’s book about the 90’s, is set to be out in the fall.
CHRISTIAN RATTEMEYER
is an art historian and associate curator for drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
EMMA REEVES
formerly photographic director at London-based Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man, is now managing editor of V Magazine and V Man in New York.
FEDERICO SARICA
is a journalist and the director of Vice Italy. He is a regular contributor to D La Repubblica, L’Uomo Vogue, Il Foglio Quotidiano and Rolling Stone with articles on culture and society.
ALEC SOTH
is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Jeu de Paume in Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and the Whitney and São Paulo biennials. In 2010, the Walker Art Center will be exhibiting and touring a large survey of Soth’s work in the US. In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom.
FABIENNE STEPHAN
is a Switzerland-born, New York-based curator. She currently works as a director at the gallery Salon 94 in New York and is the co-founder of Art Since The Summer Of 69, an exhibition space in the Lower East Side. Recent projects include the exhibitions Early Works (co-curated with Marilyn Minter and Matthew Higgs) for White Columns, and New Works, Aloïs Godinat for Artist Space in New York.
GILDA RACHEL WAJNSZTEJN
is a Brazilian creative director, copywriter and strategy planner. She has worked for over 30 years with some of the most important advertising agencies, creating campaigns for a wide variety of clients. She has garnered over 40 awards including Premio Colunista, Globes and Anuario Clube de Criação de São Paulo. She is the aunt of Marcelo Krasilcic, whose work Just Like The First Time she introduced for this issue of Fantom.
ISSUE 02/WINTER 2010
TODD EBERLE
started his career in the 1990s making photographs of minimalist sculpture and modern architecture. As Photographer-at-Large for Vanity Fair magazine, he has documented the best known creative achievers of our age as well as those who aspire to be known. His photographs capture beauty through insight and tireless commitment to reveal more that the surface of a façade, space, or face. In his Pop-up for Fantom, which is taken from the series entitled Flowers, Eberle’s portraits of “lovely ladies... in their blossoming glory” juxtapose the colorful abstractions he created by digitally multiplying close ups of budding flora.
Todd Eberle resides in New York and Connecticut. He has exhibited at Gallery White Room in Tokyo, Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where his 2006 solo exhibition, Architectural Abstractions, accompanied an eponymous book published by Dibbell Hill Press. toddeberle.com
FEDERICA BUETI
is an independent curator and writer interested in performance art, time based or ephemeral and temporary activities. She is currently contributing to a volume on sound and public space published by Errant Bodies, and working on a performance series in Italy with artist Tris Vonna-Michell. She lives and works between Rome and Berlin.
LUIGI DI CORATO
is an art historian, curator and manager. He teaches Contemporary Art Management and Museum Management at the Università Cattolica in Milan and has directed the Forte di Bard museum in Valle d’Aosta and the Museo e Tesoro della Cattedrale di Monza. Since 2009 he is the CEO of the Fondazione Musei Senesi.
SARA GREENBERGER RAFFERTY
is an artist based in New York. Her writings have appeared recently in The Highlights and Paper Monument. From 2005 to 2007 she was the co-editor of North Drive Press, with Matt Keegan. Her artwork is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY.
MARTINO MARANGONI
founded Studio Marangoni in Florence in 1989 to promote photography through teaching programs exhibitions. His photographic work has appeared in solo and group shows and is part of the collections of the Calcografia Nazionale, Rome; Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliotèque Nationale de France, Paris; FRAC, Lyon; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Camera Works, New York. studiomarangoni.it
MARILYN MINTER
was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and currently lives and works in New York. She has been the subject numerous solo exhibitions including shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and Salon 94 (NY) in 2006 and 2009. In 2007, she envisioned a centerfold for a collaboration with Parkett magazine and Pam Anderson became her muse. In September 2009, both the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and art space La Conservera in Murcia (Spain) presented installations of her work, which included large scale projections of her video Green Pink Caviar. In October 2009, Green Pink Caviar was shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in LA, a public art project happening concurrently with her first solo exhibition at Regen Projects. The video is currently on view at the MoMA. greenpinkcaviar.com
JAVIER PERES
founded Peres Projects in late 2002 and currently has galleries in Los Angeles and Berlin. He represents a roster of international artists that include Terence Koh, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Dan Colen, Kaye Donachie, Dan Attoe, Mark Flood, John Kleckner, Paul Lee, Dean Sameshima, Joe Bradley, Agathe Snow, Mark Titchner, Bruce LaBruce, Dash Snow and Kirstine Roepstorff, the artist whose work he has introduced for this Fantom issue. peresprojects.com
ANGELO PLESSAS
is an artist who lives and works in Athens, Greece. He describes himself as a “computer geek turned artist and sometimes gay activist and maybe your next best Facebook friend”. His main body of work are websites. These alternate between funny and poignant, strange and poetic while fusing the iconography of ancient civilizations, surrealist abstractions and modernist references. He has recently exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, Jeu De Paume (with Andreas Angelidakis) and in the Splendid Isolation, Athens of the 2nd Athens Biennale. Since 2005 he maintains the popular blog angelosays.com
GIOVANNA SILVA
lives and works in Milan. As a photographer, her most recent publication is Desertions, a chronicle of an American trip with designer Enzo Mari. From 2005-07 she contributed to Domus and since September 2007 she is the Photo Editor of Abitare; for Being Renzo Piano, a special edition of the magazine, she followed the Italian architect for 6 months.
ISSUE 01/AUTUMN 2009
RICCARDO PREVIDI
is the protagonist - with a selection from his 2009 Test series - of this issue’s Pop-up pages. “I found these images typing “print test” in the “search images” of Google, Yahoo and Bing. I am always intrigued by the perfunctory results of this search mode, by the way outcomes are organized, the surprises gene-rated by “intruders”. No matter how sofisticated they are, these engines are still at an embryonic stage. I have chosen the images with a certain lightness, the formal aspect being definitively one of the criteria, the other being maintaining a degree of randomness. I have printed them with an A4 printer on sheets that I have crumpled and photographed. The photographs have been then reproduced with an ink jet plotter on deal boards. They question the role of technology (as a medium), its mechanisms, the way they work, the way they get stuck. I am interested in their incompleteness, in the fact that they contain both positive and negative results: print tests are carried out to align printheads, to avoid possible errors, and we crumple up a sheet when we think what is printed on them is wrong. I am interested in the loop generated by the process: connect, research, download, print, modify, photograph, reprint. Marshall McLuan said “the medium is the message”; I began from there, but in my case it is the jammed mechanisms to grab my attention”. Riccardo Previdi was born in Milan in 1974. He lives and works in Berlin. All images courtesy of the artist and Galleria Francesca Minini, Milano - francescaminini.com
PORZIA BERGAMASCO
is an independent journalist, researcher and consultant specializing in design and architecture. An active talent scout and a member of the “Exhibition” committee of ADI-Design Index (Association for Industrial Design), in 2009 she curated for Palermo Design Week the exhibition Stories of Design: from Idea to Realization. She lives and works in Milan.
SPARTACUS CHETWYND
is an artist living and working in London. Her work mixes avant-garde practices; appropriation and misappropriation of art history and pop culture; anarco-symbolist performances; free associations of sculpture, painting, photography; anything at hand or mind, from Jackson to Giotto. Fashioning a pataphysical, revealing universe that merges rituals and (limping) ceremonies.
ALEX GARTENFELD
is an art critic and Associate Web Editor for Interview magazine. He co-founded an independent gallery space called Three’s Company in New York.
GUIDO GAZZILLI
was born in 1983 in Rome, where he lives and works. He has extensively traveled throughout Europe to photograph new urban cultures and the independent music scene, and has exhibited and published his work in a number of international galleries and magazines. In 2009 he started a project on drug addiction in Italy. He is currently represented by 7 Minutes Agency. guidogazzilli.com
SERGIO GHETTI
(Bologna, 1964) is a photographer and architect. Since 1998 he lives between Milano, Venezia and New York. He is the U.S. correspondent of the architecture magazine The Plan. His work has appeared in Amica, Style - Corriere della Sera, Io Donna, Sportweek, Marieclaire Italia, Elle Decor, Riders, Gioia, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Vogue Brasil, Condé Nast Traveller Italia, Grazia and Grazia Casa. sergioghetti.com
MILTOS MANETAS
is an artist who often works with the Internet. In 2009, he launched the first Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale padiglioneinternet.com, where he invited thepiratebay.org to found their Embassy of Piracy embassyofpiracy.org. His actions also include the Neen Movement neen.org, existential computing, Internet paintings and artworks made with videogames. Manetas lives and works in London. manetas.com
BENIAMINO MARINI
lives in Milan. After classical and social studies, he became a “creative journalist” mixing writing, creative direction, illustration… in the fields of fashion, art and design. He is now working at vogue.it and contributing to Casamica and Zoo, after having contributed to Le Monde, Corriere della Sera Magazine, Io Donna, La Gazzetta dello Sport and Rodeo.
FRANCO NOERO
opened his eponymous gallery in Turin in 1999. The gallery now operates 3 different exhibition spaces, including La Fetta di Polenta - one of the city’s architectural landmarks, built by Alessandro Antonelli around 1840 - a “laboratory for ideas” where the work of Simon Starling that Noero introduces in this issue was conceived and dispayed in April 2008. franconoero.com
DENIS PERNET
is a curator at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, where he organized monographic exhibitions of Yuri Leiderman, Adrien Missika and Klat. As an indepedant curator, he worked with Maayan Amir & Ruti Sela, Dafne Boggeri and Jean-Luc Manz. In 2008, he curated a solo exhibition of Christodoulos Panayiotou at 1m3 gallery in Lausanne.
JORMA PURANEN
is an artist and photographer born and based in Finland. Through the use of different archive materials, he explores the relationships between past and present, histories of representation and the framing of nature by culture. Recent solo exhibitions include Sixteen Steps to Paradise, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki and Icy Prospects, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
ADRIANO SACK
German, 42, is a freelance writer living in New York, who works for publications such as Architectural Digest, Monopol and Pin-Up. Sack has a style column in Welt am Sonntag, Germany’s leading Sunday paper. His latest books include The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends (Plume) and Gebrauchsanweisung fuer die USA (Piper), a collection of essays on culture, politics and the social climate in the United States.
TIM SMALL
is the editor of the Italian issue of Vice magazine and a contributing editor of the international art bi-monthly Kaleidoscope. His writings appear regularly in Rolling Stone, The Observer, Mousse and Satisfiction, and his documentaries can be seen on vbs.tv. He lives in Milan, and despite what most people think, Tim Small is his real name.
ISSUE 00/SUMMER 2009
GUIDO COSTA
is the founder and director of his eponymous art gallery and production company, inaugurated in Turin in 1998. In this issue he introduces the work of Robert Kusmirowski, an artist he first exhibited in 2008. guidocostaprojects.com
RAMAK FAZEL
was born in Abadan (Iran) and grew up in the U.S. where he studied mechanical engineering and photography. In 1994 after a series of colorful experiences assisting photographers in New York, he moved to Italy where he lives and works, contributing to magazines such as Abitare, Casa Brutus and Domus. In 2008 he had solo shows at Storefront for Art and Architecture and at Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC. In the fall of 2009 he will be returning to the U.S. to start studies towards an MFA at CalArts.
LINDA FREGNI NAGLER
was born in Stockholm and lives in Milan. She studied at the Escuela International de Cine y Television in Cuba, Milan’s Academy of Fine Arts and at Fondazione Ratti in Como with Jimmie Durham. She has worked in New York and Paris and widely exhibited in Italy and abroad. A loving collector of photographs that often inspire her work, she has opened her archive to Fantom and discussed her findings with Francesco Zanot.
MARC GLOEDE
is an art critic and curator. He received his PhD in film studies and is active in a wide range of projects: Art Basel Film, the Wild Walls Film Festival (Berlin, Los Angeles, London, New York), Experimenta in Mumbai and Bangalore, and international exhibitions in contemporary art such as Still/Moving/Still in Knokke, Belgium. He is a contributor for Art in America and X-Tra magazine. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
YOUNG KIM
was born in Seul, grew up in Long Island, studied in New Haven, and lives between New York and Paris. She has contributed to a number of fashion, art and design magazines and was an editor of V magazine/Visionaire. Since 2001 she is Malcolm McLaren’s producer and creative partner.
SYLVIA KOUVALI
founded Rodeo contemporary art gallery in Istanbul in 2007. Her contribution to Fantom on photographs by Andreas Angelidakis is also the subject of A Short Visit, a limited edition publication which she edited in 2008. rodeo-gallery.com
DOMINGO MILELLA
studied photography at New York’s School of Visual Arts and currently lives between Bari, Italy, and New York. He had solo shows at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, and Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome.
RUTH VAN BEEK
graduated at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a Master in Photography in 2002. She collects random snapshots, slides and albums, and cuts pictures from newspapers and books. By matching photos and connecting different elements, she lets form, scale and colour interplay, inventing credible pictures of something that never existed. Her explosions are the protagonist of this issue’s Pop-up. ruthvanbeek.com
OLIVIER ZAHM
is the founder, publisher and editor of Purple Fashion magazine. purple.fr
