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Katier shows: Paparazzi! Photographers, Stars and Artists 26.03 – 09.06.2014 – Centre Pompidou-Metz

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Paparazzi! Photographers, stars and artists

Centre Pompidou-Metz dedicates an unprecedented exhibition to the phenomenon and aesthetic of paparazzi photography through more than 600 works (photography, painting, video, sculpture, installation, etc.).

The exhibition is divided into three parts: Photographers, Stars and Artists.

RED CARPET (INTRODUCTION)
The visitor steps into the exhibition space to be immediately confronted with paparazzi flashes from an installation by Malachi Farrell, titled Interview (Paparazzi). Photographs showing a pack of paparazzi “hunting their prey” create a mise en abyme that plunges the visitor into a new role as a star, while giving them a taste of the pressure celebrities are under.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

A profession
The profession of paparazzo is more complex than it seems. Paparazzi must be ingenious, mounting what are often delicate, high-risk operations. They each have their tricks of the trade and tales to tell which together form the grand story of “paparazzism”.
In a series of interviews with paparazzi, a presentation of their tools (including spy cameras, long lenses and disguises), photographs by Francis Apesteguy, Olivier Mirguet, Jessica Dimmock and Christophe Beauregard, and an excerpt from Raymond Depardon’s Reporters film, this section goes behind-the-scenes of the paparazzi.

Myths
The figure of the paparazzo was invented by Federico Fellini in 1960. The name is a contraction of “pappataci” (mosquitoes) and “ragazzi” (ruffians). The paparazzo is portrayed as a post-modern anti-hero. Since La Dolce Vita, he has become one of the mythical figures of popular culture.
Excerpts from films by Dario Argento, Federico Fellini, Brian De Palma, Louis Malle and Andrzej Zulawski, from the 1930s to the present, reveal the public’s perception of the paparazzo as a solitary figure, often down on his luck. Devoid of morals or scruples, and therefore hard to love, he is the double negative of the war correspondent.

STARS

Under scrutiny
Paparazzo is a male-dominated profession. Its targets, on the other hand, are almost always epitomes of womanhood. This section considers the case of eight women – Brigitte Bardot, Paris Hilton, Jackie Kennedy-Onassis, Stéphanie de Monaco, Britney Spears, Diana Spencer and Elizabeth Taylor – to show how the style and stakes of paparazzi photography have changed over half a century.

The other side
Celebrities are not just helpless victims. When they spot the paparazzi, they can choose to play along with them and allow themselves to be photographed or not, in which case their reactions can range from a polite refusal to physical aggression. They can also be a willing accomplice, going as far as to invent their own way of escaping the star system and its constraints. This section presents celebrities’ different reactions to the camera through a series of shots by the twentieth century’s greatest paparazzi – Daniel Angeli, Francis Apesteguy, Ron Galella, Marcello Geppetti, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain, Erich Salomon, Tazio Secchiaroli, Sébastien Valiela and Weegee.

ARTISTS

Forms of appropriation
The paparazzi photo has a recognisable aesthetic, a result of the conditions in which it is taken. These are on-the-spot, improvised images, with all the consequences this has on their composition: the long lens for distance shots, or the flash for close-ups, flatten the image. Celebrities shielding themselves behind their hand has become the symbol of media aggression. Since the 1960s, the paparazzi aesthetic has inspired numerous artists in Pop Art, post-Modernism and more contemporary movements, from Richard Hamilton to Paul McCarthy, including Valerio Adami, Barbara Probst or Gerhard Richter.

Through the paparazzo’s lens
Fascinated by the image hunters’ approach, numerous artists and fashion photographers since the 1960s have stepped into their shoes for one or other project. Photographers such as Richard Avedon, William Klein and Terry Richardson were first to get under the paparazzo’s skin for a series of shots. Many artists, including the American Gary Lee Boas, English artist Alison Jackson, and G.R.A.M., an Austrian collective, have also collected stars in the same way paparazzi do. Since the 1980s, women artists such as Malin Arnesson, Kathrin Günter and Cindy Sherman have questioned the artist’s celebrity status.
NEWSSTAND (CONCLUSION)
Celebrity magazines satisfy the demand of a media industry which has its own rhetoric and its own, unmistakable page layout. Through works by Jonathan Horowitz, Armin Linke, Paul McCarthy and Andy Warhol, this last section raises the question of how paparazzi photos reach their audience.

Katier presents: Star Shots Magazines

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Katier is very happy to have been invited by infamous occulto magazine to join their desk at MISS READ – The Berlin Art Book Fair from 19th – 22th of September! Two new editions of my freshly printed Star Shots Magazines and my self are looking forward to meeting you at the occulto magazine desk!
THANK YOU OCCULTO!!!

MISS READ will be hosted by abc – art berlin contemporary for the second year, after taking place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art for the previous three years.

Location:
abc art berlin contemporary
Luckenwalder Strasse 4-6
10963, Berlin
Germany

Opening hours
Thursday, 19.9.2013, 12-9pm
Friday, 20.9.2013, 12–7 pm
Saturday, 21.9.2013, 12–7 pm
Sunday, 22.9.2013, 12–7 pm

Free Entry

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Katier shows: International Teletext Art Festival

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15.8.-15.9.2013
INTERNATIONAL TELETEXT ART FESTIVAL ITAF

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An exhibition in ARD Hauptstadtstudio exhibition space in Berlin

The festival opens on August 15th in Berlin at the ARD Hauptstadtstudio exhibition space were the ITAF works will be displayed untill the 15th September and continues in Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo with some program. The following day ITAF continues with a Teletext Cocktailparty in Musterzimmer Showroom for Contemporary Art. > info on opening program, schedule and locations

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C. Clarke

Teletext, first invented some 30 years ago, utilizes the “vertical blanking interval” lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. Technically it has remained almost unchanged until recently when TV became digital. Teletext being an amazing success story still attracts millions of visitors daily for the latest news headlines, weather reports or sports results.

The potential of Teletext as an tool for artistic expression has not yet been fully discovered though the aesthetics of Teletext have slowly creeped in to the most fashionable street ware, graffiti and fine art. Is the next big word in intellectual small talk of the hip, rich and famous going to be teletextualism? Time will show, but since it happens The International Teletext Art Festival gives the possibility to the Teletext users to decide for themselves.

Participating artists:
LIA, Manuel Knapp, UBERMORGEN, Daniel Egg, Marc Lee, Raquel Meyers, Kathrin Günter, Max Capacity, Dragan Espenschied, Jarkko Räsänen, Seppo Renvall , Juha van Ingen, Cordula Ditz, John Lawrence and Goto80

A group of experts (Paul B. Davis, Voin de Voin and Rosa Menkman) will select one of the participating artists to receive the Teletext Art Prize.You too can vote for your favourite artwork.

ITAF2013 will also be in the program of Ars Electronica Festival , Linz, Austria, 5.9.-9.9.2013

The International Teletext Art Festival is a FixC cooperative project www.fixc.fi made in collaboration with ARD Text www.ard-text.de, ORF TELETEXT teletext.orf.at and Swiss TXT www.teletext.ch.

For more info and PR images contact: Juha van Ingen ITAF / FixC
itaf2013 (at) fixc (dot) com / phone: (+) 358 40 5932694
FixC cooperative Alppikatu 17 LH2 FI-00530 Helsinki www.fixc.fi

The official ITAF2013 opening is in ARD Haupstadtstudio exhibition space 15.8. at 19.00 in ARD-Hauptstadtstudio Wilhelmstraße 67a Berlin-Mitte

Note! Entering to ARD building requires a pre registrtion by sending your name by e-mail to: kommunikation@ard-hauptstadtstudio.de

Remember to bring your ID with you to be sure you get into the building!

The unofficial ITAF2013 opening starts in Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo at 21.00.

You can start at the bar and join us in the Jungle (screening space) to see some Teletext works from 2012 + 80’s style lo-fi Teletext videomix with live sound by FixC + some mod music. Everybody welcome!

Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo
Filmkunst-Videothek & BarReichenberger Str. 133 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg
> www.filmkunstbar.de

On Friday 16.8.

A Teletext Cocktailparty in Musterzimmer from 19.00 to 22.00
Teletext works from 2012/2013 + refreshments. Everybody welcome!

Musterzimmer Showroom for Contemporary Art
Crellestrasse 44 10827 Berlin
> www.musterzimmer.net

OUT NOW: Occulto issue e

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The metaporphosis is complete.
Occulto is now a biannual publication with its own ISSN.

Meet the Popular Republic of Photosynthesis.
Learn how thin and blurry the boundary between living and inanimate can be.
Read challenging reflections about our interpretation of the theory of evolution.
Discover how cleverly Queen Dido took advantage of the isoperimetric problem.
Watch gossip stars morphed into Poltergeist.
Download the second great selection of music compiled by Onga (Boring Machines)

… And more!

Star Shots And The Ghost Tape by Raven Moore

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Raven Moore, a newly formed artist duet of sound artist Marta Zapparoli and visual artist Kathrin Guenter join for the first time their particular artistic approaches and backgrounds to interrogate, manipulate and remodel the conspiratorial, dark side of the paparazzi and celebrity phenomenon.

A vast collection of original audio and visual footage of so-called “trainwreck” celebrities and pop stars like Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or Lilly Allen, to name only a few, is the source and starting point which the artist duo immerse themselves in.

Audio, text and visual archives are carefully dissected, manipulated and finally reinterpreted by the artists to show how the perfectly calculated and constructed image and sound mask of the star or celebrity slowly cracks, breaks and changes under the constant pressure of public observation and perception.

This mask evidently cracks open, freeing a dubious doppelganger moving about in space incognito, syncing and miming a variety of mutilated, erstwhile catchy tunes which slowly vanish into a ghostly silence.

The first layer that will be presented is an audio-video installation introducing Raven Moore and their mysterious manipulations and mutilations of pop and paparazzi phenomena.

Katier in June

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Occulto Magazine

Katier is delighted to be a contributor for the latest edition of the infamous Occulto Magazine! The high gloss volume Issue e: The Metamorphosis will be published round mid of June 2013

Occulto explores new possibilities in the popularisation of science in connection to other fields such as the visual arts, parascientific theories and history of ideas.

Occulto affirms the cultural value of scientific knowledge and the potential of an interdisciplinary approach opened to deviance and irony. Its research also questions past and present attempts to find shortcuts to knowledge (and power), the fascination towards the irrational and revealed truths.
What lies behind the insurmountable gap dividing humanities and science?

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PARALLAX View: 1st June to 24th November 2013

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Katier is also very happy to join PARALLAX View, an on-line gallery of animated GIF’s from 1st June to 24th November 2013 by FixC cooperative / www.fixc.fi

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