Niv Rozenberg
Summit part II
Niv Rozenberg continues his exploration of America's finest architectural peaks.
A magnificent Portfolio of 8 iconic New York peaks is on show at the gallery until October 19, surrounded by his large-scale pieces of undeniable elegance and purity.
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Will Adler, Leroy Grannis, Olivia Fougeirol, Marianne Barthélémy, Christa Funk, Camille Robiou du Pont, Maria Fernanda, Sara Guix, Ming Nomchong,Tahnei Roy, Cristina Gareau, Karo Krassel, Serena Lutton
Surfin’Girl Surfing
Their common denominator is a love of surfing and Ocean and they are the proof that the hystory of surfing can also be written by women.
Professionnal Photographers, filmmakers, globetrotters, surfers,they all devote their time to the ocean and each has a unique link with it.
The gallery is dedicating this "Surfin'Girl Surfing" exhibition to them accompanied by two iconic surf photographers whose love of surfing is matched only by their love of women : Leroy Grannis and Will Adler.
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Will Adler, Leroy Grannis, Olivia Fougeirol, Marianne Barthélémy, Christa Funk, Camille Robiou du Pont, Maria Fernanda, Sara Guix, Ming Nomchong,Tahnei Roy, Cristina Gareau, Karo Krassel, Serena Lutton
Surfin’Girl Surfing
Susan Meiselas, Niv Rozenberg, Vincent Mercier, Reine Paradis
Portfolios
From February 6 to April 6, 2024, the gallery takes you from east to west of the United States with the Portfolios of Susan Meiselas and her series on the Prince Street Girls of Little Italy, Niv Rozenberg and the New York Summits for the East Coast and those of Reine Paradis and her autofictions and Vincent Mercier in Palm Spring for the West Coast.
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Carl Corey
Between dusk and dawn
The exhibition "Between dusk and dawn" presents a new series , including some from his latest body of work, The Strand (2022) taken in the Great Lakes region. These images show gas stations, diners, parked cars, and empty streets in the twilight hours, at dusk or dawn. They are composed of a bright center, radiating outwards leaving the edges of the frame to blend into darkness. Humans make a furtive appearance, reminiscent of Eggleston, Stephen Shore or Edward Hopper’s paintings. Corey’s understated pictures are warmly lit, amply framed and cinematic. They exude a noir atmosphere, narrating the adventure of a sentimental traveler keen to record a changing America.
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Kristin Bedford - Niv Rozenberg
Colors of America
The gallery is delighted to present the exhibition "Colors of America" until October 2_th, where Kristin Bedford and Niv Rozenberg invite you to (re) discover a different and colorful perspective on America..
Kristin Bedford is known for her portraits of American cultural movement. In the series “Cruise Night” Bedford’s images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite us to question prevalent societal stereotypes. Located at the intersection of aesthetics and social realism, her photographs explore the nuance of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With the bold language of color photography and the female vantage point, Cruise Night is an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape
Niv Rozenberg explores the complexities of the urban environment, moving from direct photography to digital manipulation. He photographs buildings adjacent to where he lives in New York from rooftops or street level, and to better emphasize their uniqueness by separating them from the visual noise of their surroundings, he uses digital manipulation to deconstruct these facades, reducing them to a variety of shapes and colors.
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Leroy Grannis, Ron Church, Morgan Maassen, Will Adler
SURFIN’USA
Like every year at this time, the gallery welcomes you for it's surfing exhibition. The main guest for this 2023 Edition is Leroy Grannis, the photographer who captured surfing at the moment when it went from being a leisure activity to a culture. He witnessed the transformation of the sport into a way of life and bridged the gap between the words of the Beach Boys and the reality of the surf scene in California and Hawaii.
Alongside him is another pioneer of surf photography, Ron Church, whose photographs also form a large part of the archive of iconic photos of surfing and the history of Californian cultures in the 1960s.
Accompanying them are two young talents, Morgan Maassen and Will Adler, well known to today's young surfers for their images and films on this fascinating universe that is surfing.
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Carl Corey, Niv Rozenberg, Jerry Takigawa
Waiting for the surf.
While waiting for the annual meeting around surfing with this year a focus on the work of Leroy Grannis and Ron Church we propose you to come and rediscover 3 artists presented in the past year .
3 faces of America with very personal projects around architecture (Niv Rozenberg), a personal family story (Jerry Takigawa) and documentary photography (Carl Corey).
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Jerry Takigawa
Balancing Cultures
Gallery Catherine et André Hug presents for the first time in France, Jerry Takigawa’s photography series Balancing Cultures.
With an eye toward recent history and its direct impact on the present day, Takigawa and his series Balancing Cultures delves into the incarceration of all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast of America during World War II. In 1942, President Roosevelt’s Executive order 9066 authorized the establishment of military zones in the United States, leading to the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
In Balancing Cultures Takigawa engages with this personal family narrative, building and photographing temporary collages assembled from his family’s collection of photographs, paper and artifacts of their imprisonment. Jerry Takigawa guides us to the truth with eloquent imagery first, then invites us to dive deeper into the cues and juxtapositions he’s left us in the photographs
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Kristin Bedford
Cruise Night – opening night November 3th from 6pm
Cruise Night is a collection of unstaged photographs and recorded oral history that Kristin Bedford made with the Los Angeles Mexican American lowrider community throughout Southern California and Nevada from 2014 to 2019. Kristin's path to lowriding originates from her interest in the layered and nuanced ways that customizing a car reflects decades of political, cultural and creative self-expression in this community. Over the five years of making these photographs the lowrider family shared the sophistication and complexity of their tradition with her.
Since its beginnings in the 1940s, the lowrider tradition provided a platform for Mexican Americans to have a voice and be seen. Today there are tens of thousands of lowriders in Los Angeles. The movement is prolific, yet it maintains an element of invisibility in greater society. Lowriding is often pigeonholed as simplistic folk art and stereotyped by the media as crude and dangerous. She has seen a different reality – a refined and beautiful tradition of self-expression that is passed down between generations.
Opening Night Thursday November 3th from 6 o 8;30 pm
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Niv Rozenberg
“Summit”
In his "Summit" series, Niv Rozenberg focuses on New York's unique cityscape.
Rosenberg began photographing buildings next to where he lives in New York City, both from the rooftops above and from street level. Using digital manipulation, he deconstructs these facades by reducing them to a variety of shapes and colors and emphasizes their uniqueness by separating them from the visual noise of their environment. Thus he explores the complexities of the urban environment, moving from direct photography to digital manipulation.
By focusing on an isolated façade, he is able to deconstruct architecture and The Image becomes an abstract two-dimensional relic.
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Will Adler , Morgan Maassen, Mark McInnis
Surf etc..
As every year the Gallery exhibits in June and July a selection of images of young talents of surf photography.
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Carl Corey
Americaville
Gallery Catherine & André Hug presents for the first time in Europe Carl Corey’s photography’s in an exhibition titled Americaville.
Carl Corey is an American photographer based in River Falls, Wisconsin whose work focuses upon the American Cultural Landscape with an eye towards areas of historical significance. Carl knows his country intimately from trips that criss-cross America, shining a light on small communities and unseen ordinarily unseen, his observations are like singular postcards identifying physical and and societal
landmarks. Corey documents the past and the present all co-mingled with temporal.
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Group Show
Winter Exhibition
The works of the artists who made the news of the Gallery during the year 2021 have been collected for this group show...
From joni Sternbach's unique Piece to Eric Tabuchi Portfolio through Terri Loewenthal, Vincent Mercier, Eric Weeks , Will Adler works about fifty photographs are exhibited until January 29, 2022.
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Edward Burtynsky - Eric Tabuchi ............
Another Look at Man-Altered Landscape
Another look at Man-Altered Landscape focus on a situation that has become critical, through the intersecting eyes of Edward Burtynsky , Eric Tabuchi and twenty international photographers.
A mass grave of used tires in California, a plastic dump in Nairobi, a graveyard for merchant navy boats in Bangladesh... In partnership with the Canadian Cultural Center, four large and alarmist photographs by Edward Burtynsky capture the drifts of the anthropocene era.
From his Atlas des Régions Naturelles documenting French vernacular architecture, Éric Tabuchi's Camouflage series presents an ironic alternative to this state of emergency: spotted in Tourcoing, Saint-Paul-de-Léon, Gauville, Sens, Saint-Connan, and Laons, six vegetal shapes hide industrial ruins, and question how land is developed today.
Two socially engaged visions with which those of Frederic Adams-Montantin, Elizabeth Bourne, Garry Bowcott, Bill Leigh Brewer, Owen Davies, Fabien Dendievel, Ted Diamond, Alexander Dumarey, Chris Faust, Andy Feltham, Jacques Gautreau, Stéphane Goin, Paul Hamelin, Andrea Kunstle, Markus Lehr, Chris Leslie, Ian Lindo, Doug B Richardson, Marco Rizzo, Alexis Toureau, Paul Turner, and Avard Woolaver, resonate. Between the Bio Towers of Lauchhammer, the Red Road Flats of Glasgow, a Coca-Cola machine lost in California's Wonder Valley, or an abandoned car under a bridge in Chicago, their images- documents map the impact of economic and social progress on modern landscapes.
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Natalie Christensen
Limits
Photographer Natalie Christensen has an inimitable, and enchanting, focus on the exploration of the more banal peripheral landscapes that often go unnoticed by the casual observer. "I quickly became aware that these isolated moments in the suburban landscape were rich with metaphor. Closed and open doors, empty parking lots and forgotten swimming pools draw me to a scene; yet it was my reactions to these objects and spaces that elicited interpretation and projection."
"The symbols and spaces in my images are an invitation to explore a rich world that is concealed from consciousness, and an enticement to contemplate narratives that have no remarkable life yet tap into something deeply familiar to our experience; often disturbing, sometimes amusing...unquestionably present."
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Morgan Maassen - Will Adler
Pacific Wave
For this "Pacific Wave" exhibition, the gallery presents Photographies from Morgan Maassen and Will Adler , young Californians from Santa Barbara who grew up surfing the Pacific waves.
Today, having become references in surf photography, they both give us their quirky looks at the world of surfing and their images where vibrant blues compete with the greens of the sea and where dramatic black and white portraits allude to the existence of another world beneath the surface.
Behind the relaxed aesthetics of their photographs lies a very rigorous work, discipline and technique. Being confronted with the technical constraints of surf photography while catching the best wave is not easy but it all seems natural to them.
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Reine Paradis
From “Jungle” to “Midnight “
Since 2014 Reine Paradis constructs narrative photographs by staging herself in a surreal landscape and for each scene, the process is the same: first she imagines a scene, then she creates a sketch that she uses as a reference throughout the process, she draws and manufactures costumes and origami and finally photographs the scene in real locations.
To stage herself adds an essential performance dimension and it is for her a necessity to "live" the scene in order to fully convey the original vision.
But if Reine Paradis herself does theatrical action and chic it is the blue that is the muse and the eternal star in her photos.
Reine Paradis works her different series, each with her own counterpoint color (blinding dark orange for her Jungle series and saturated lemon for her Midnight series), blue is the constant. The animation of these fictions on the spot is the figure of the artist herself, the living heroine of her own mechanical history and another object among many others. Photography then becomes the only way for her to create a world that exists between reality and imagination.
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Terri Loewenthal
Psychscapes
Galerie Catherine & André Hug presents, as part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival , an exhibition by american artist Terri Loewenthal.
Terri is an Oakland-based artist whose recent work examines the intersection of landscape and psyche. In her new series, Psychscapes, Loewenthal investigates the sublime expanse of land and sky romanticized in the still-potent mythology of Utopian California. Psychscapes are single-exposure, in-camera compositions that utilize special optics developed by Loewenthal to compress vast spaces into complex, evocative environments. These photographs combine straightforward landscape photography with explorations into the psychology of perception.
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Olivia Fougeirol
Last Summer, Blue.
‘Last Summer, Blue.' is a selection of images recorded over several years during which the artist photographed estate sales in various places around Los Angeles, intrigued by being able to enter the intimacy of these private homes at a time of dispersion of the objects that constituted the atmosphere. She then weaved this work with a more recent one on the body and the exploration of desire, whose living intimacy is also detected in these vacant homes. The Californian light is the link between these photographic entries - a characteristic light, intense and sometimes brutal, which proves cinematic and dictates its own scenario. "Last Summer, Blue." is a series about departure, about what disappears and never returns. This portfolio of 15 photographs, small gaps in the banality of everyday life, is a silent invitation to perceive the mixture of intimacy that a house exudes and that of a body in presence.
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Ron Church - Will Adler - Joni Sternbach - Mark McInnis
Beyond Surf
The Gallery has brought together 3 artists reunited around the work of Ron Church, one of the pioneering photographers of "surf culture" in California and Hawaii in the 60s. The photographs of the young Will Adler, the unique pieces of Joni Sternbach, the work of Mark McInnis, as well as that of Ron Church, capture the surf culture of their time, both the action on the water and in a broader sense the way of life of surfers and their families.
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COSTANZA GASTALDI
LOTO NERO
“Loto Nero” is a photographic project born from a solo trip in September 2018 in the Huangshan Mountains located in the eastern provinces of China. The exhibition shows grain photogravures made by the art master Fanny Boucher from Helio’g Workshops. The rediscovery of this original photographic technique gives “Loto Nero” a deep aesthetic where blacks are magically underlined. In this series
the tormented conifers dance and respond to the erratic movements of the mist with the same grace that one feels when looking at classical paintings. If these images look like paintings, it is in a sense, better to be photographs: Costanza likes to cultivate in each of her series, an ambiguity that undermines the “purity” of genres in order to capture the interpretative and fictional power of photography
without annihilating its specificity.
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VINCENT MERCIER
CALIFORNIA
Vincent Mercier ‘s photographs often work the collision of the present and the past… He is looking for a lost and fragile color and it is his particular alchemy today or tomorrow, these images will always have their place, that of an idealized America …. The dry, matte paper reminds us of these desert landscapes, marked by loneliness. A photographic adventure that is built like a road movie. Without a precise road map, the photographer follows his instinct and stops whenever something catches his eye. A car, a facade with past colors, the projection of a shadow on a wall or panels with eloquent messages
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WILL ADLER
SEA LEVEL
Will Adler’s first personal exhibition , “Sea Level”, presents a dozen exotic photographs that rock us into and out of reality, all with a humorous nod. Whether for his personal work or for brands like Nike, Patagonia or Quiksilver, Adler’s images have a distinct and brilliant style that creates a rare intimacy in his field. Capturing the intermediate moments (a dog watching his owner paddling the beach, a seagull sitting on a wall) is the kind of ordinary experiences that Adler shares with us that manages to touch us with his dreamlike style. Known for his photos of the surf world, his diffuse light images reflect the spirit and atmosphere of the place as much as the action of the sport and have earned him a cult following in the circle of surf photography.
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ERICH HARTMANN
POETRY OF DAILY LIFE
The Poetry of Daily Life exhibition is a carte blanche for a Erich Hartmann show to CLAIRbyKahn, the gallery which represents the photographer’s archives. Hartmann (b. 1922 in Munich, d. 1999 in New York) is celebrated for the subtle, mysterious poetry that emanates from his photography, the play of shadow and light that is captivating yet respectful. He embraced places, objects, and people with his camera, never unsettling the moment, always capturing it in a way that allowed it to be rediscovered. The Poetry of Daily Life exhibition features 27 images by Hartmann that magnify the glory of the ordinary and the dignity of the routine. The photographs on display are all vintage prints that have the unique quality of being developed by Hartmann’s own hand.
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ENDIA BEAL
AM I WHAT YOU’R LOOKING FOR?
The Gallery Catherine et André Hug presents “Am I What You’re Looking For?” an exhibition from Endia Beal whose work was supported with funds provided by the Magnum Foundation. This work focuses on young women of color who are transitioning from the academic world to the corporate setting, capturing their struggles and uncertainties on how to best present themselves in the professional workspace. As the young women pose in front of an office backdrop in the home, they recall conversations during interviews. The women explain how employers would tell them that their natural hair was unprofessional or their name was too difficult to pronounce, suggesting they alter themselves for the job. This project provides an in-depth investigation into the experiences and fears of being a woman of color in corporate America. “Am I What You’re Looking For?” honors a constellation of black women’s aesthetics, a topic Beal has documented in the past.
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REINE PARADIS
MIDNIGHT
Though Paradis herself strikes theatrical, quirky, comically chic action poses in her tableaux, it is this blue that is the perennial muse and star As Paradis works through different series, each with its own key counterpoint color (blinding deep orange, saturated lime, dark crimson), this blue is the constant. In her most recent work, the blue is joined by a certain lime green, a neon hue that radiates light for the blue to absorb and amplify. Whereas the blue is deployed mainly in its rightful, quasi-naturalistic place of sky or perhaps a kind of watery ground, the green performs as clothing, origami props and set pieces, which trace the elements of narrative. It is centrally important to her enterprise that the scenes in Paradis’ images are “really photographed,” which to say, pictures are taken of elaborate optically-charged but fundamentally analog scenarios. Animating her on-location fictions is the figure of the artist herself, the living heroine of her own mechanical story, and another object poised among many. Baudrillard wrote, “Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.” That makes sense to Paradis, for whom reality is both elusive and essential.
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VINCENT MERCIER
441 PALM SPRINGS
Architecture fascinates Vincent Mercier and has left its stamp on his meticulously ordered, geometrical images. Lines are scattered over his landscapes. What Mercier describes in his own personal America, a reflection of the indelible mark left on him by the games of his childhood. His gifts as a colorist give his images a texture all their own. As in Edward Hopper paintings, the rare figures he includes seem frozen in a post-trip time warp. Time has come to a halt in the memory of a photographer seeking to experience this moment for all eternity. Today or tomorrow these images will always have their place: that of an idealized America offering hints of its extremes of temperature and its deathly silence. The dry matte paper conjures up this desert terrain shot through with solitude. Traveling alone, Mercier is not seeking the Other in his photographs; what interests him are these silent, sun-struck landscapes.’
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MONA KUHN
NEW WORKS
In conjunction with Photo Saint Germain, Catherine and André Hug Gallery present “Mona Kuhn: New Works ” a selection of photographs from Kuhn’s two most recent bodies of work, Private and Acido Dorado. Kuhn begins each series with a specific color palette and emotion in mind; consequently each body of work is like a lyrical ballad, opening up a dialogue about the human body’s interaction with its physical environment. Her primary focus is the body, and though her early work leans more towards traditional figuration, these pieces see her actively broaden her scope, turning her attention to landscape, abstraction, and the body’s relationship to architecture. Acido Dorado is set inside architect Robert Stone’s secluded modernist structure in Joshua Tree National Park, California. In this series, Kuhn and her subject, close friend and long-time collaborator Jacintha, explore pools, mirrored ceilings and glass walls to produce sandy-colored hallucinations filled with dreamy light leaks and seductive reflections. Landscapes, architectural details, reflections and a single figure repeatedly obscured and dislocated create photographs that verge on abstraction. Kuhn playfully combines a number of visual stratégies; patterning, translucency, and reflectivity and conflates them with the casual closeness of a photographer and her subject. Private proposes a world in which concrete reality and the imaginary are one. Plants and animals on the edge of survival, sun-drenched landscapes and wind-sculpted earth are intercut with a series of nudes that push Kuhn’s renowned sensitivity to human form into unexpected directions. Shot over two years in the Mojave desert Kuhn created a sequence of pictures that is seductive, enigmatic and a little unsettling
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REINE PARDIS
JUNGLE
Shot in many locations throughout America, the photo series «Jungle» takes us on an introspective journey across a symbolic and chromatic world, projected above the limit of reality and imagination.
All the scenes are imagined and conceptualized before shooting in real locations. Once the scene is visualized in it’s entirety, Paradis makes sketches and paints the scene to use as a blue print when photographing the final scene. All the costumes, accessories and origamis are meticulously designed and prepared according to the initial vision of the scene.
Each scene is an adventure and a story in and of itself.
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KOURTNEY ROY
« SORRY NO VACANCY »
Catherine et André Hug Gallery presents Kourtney Roy’s third solo exhibition. Sorry, The work continues to use Kourtney Roy’s own image as protagonist in a world where external reality is ripe with strange and mysterious juxtapositions and scenarios.
In Sorry, No Vacancy, the artist has melded the ineffable with the vast and isolated spaces of Southwest Texas. The settings for this series are marginal and transient sites; remote highways, abandoned tourist stops, and lonesome towns that seem to hover over the landscape as ghost images of a past time. These sites become the grounds where Roy performs her cryptic rituals of self-transformation. No Vacancy reveals a parallel universe where the realm of the imaginary spreads itself as a fine netting over the peripheral world.
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PHILIPPE CHANCEL
DATAZONE #13
As part of Photo Saint Germain, Galerie Catherine & André Hug is exhibiting the project carried out in the Antarctic by Philippe Chancel in 2017: “Datazone 13″.
The Antarctic continent was discovered during the first 30 years of the 20th century. It was an age of pioneers, names that became legendary in connection with the land of ice explored in extreme conditions. The initial 30 years of the 21st century has become the moment to raise questions about this untouched beauty threatened by terrible risks and potential disaster. A growing number of occurrences vouch for this. Geopolitical, economic and above all ecological issues culminate in a most likely accelerated future limiting the core, but already weakened values of our planet at the same rate as the accelerated calving of the ice floe.
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GROUP SHOW
PORTFOLIOS
Until March 30th 2018 The Catherine and André Hug Gallery invites you to enter the universe of five great artists through their Portfolios giving a global vision of one of their particular series while allowing to see a project photographic as a whole . From Susan Meiselas, great figure of American Photojournalism, photographed and watched grow
up “girls of Prince Street ” in Little Italy neighborhood in New York to Kourtney Roy who is photographing her self in the small Canadian town of her childhood, passing by Reine Paradis and his introspective trip to the heart of the American West which is also at the center of Vincent Mercier’s Portfolio and finally Philippe Chancel’s Portfolio initiated in 2005 on 14 iconic territories.
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JONI STERNBACHH
OCEAN SIDE
The exhibition features 20 photographs by New York artist, Joni Sternbach. “Ocean Side” brings together three select bodies of work, all made along the shoreline and captured on different media. Sternbach’s use of historic techniques (cyanotype, tintype and ambrotype) and equipment, including an Petzval 184o’s Petzval lens are part of her ongoing conversation with history.
Sternbach’s most celebrated series: “Surfland,” a collection of portraits of surfers taken on beaches around the world using the 19th century wet-plate collodion process, is at the center of the exhibition. “Surf pictures are traditionally studies in motion — a figure in the spray of a cutback or under the curl of a jewel-toned barrel. But Joni Sternbach, who has spent the last twelve years making large-format tintype photographs of surfers on beaches around the globe, is after something different: a kind of ethnographic study in stillness, silvery portraits of a tribe united by a sense of adventure, the love of a sport and a connection to the ocean.” Diane Cardwell, NY Times
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MONA KUHN
« NEW WORKS PART II »
Catherine et André Hug presents a photography’s selection from the two last Mona Kuhn’s series .. Mona Kuhn likes to create a visual world that possibly exists just in our thoughts because she likes to escape realism whenever possible. In the series “She disappeared in complete silence ” her visual narrative shifted from the nude expressed in the physical body to the abstracted expressions of the body. The desert light and glass architecture from Robert Stone ‘s house “Acido Dorado” presented the perfect platform to create magic images in this surrealistic desert of Joshua Tree while her new works from her last series “Poem” has been taken in les Landes a pine forest in France where the artist has brought her signature process of photographing the human form with striking intimacy and candor.
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PHILIPPE CHANCEL
DRIVE THRU
The Gallery Catherine and André Hug presents Philippe Chancel’s last series “DRIVE THRU” which takes place in Flint.
Flint, USA is the eleventh cardinal point of the Datazone constellation. Neighbouring Detroit, and currently abandoned to a disastrous de-industrialization, the city was once the stronghold of General Motors, main employer and creator of the cult object of American happiness. If the 40s saw the Buick Roadmaster or Slylark become stars of Hollywood’s silver screen, the Riviera, Gran Sport or Wildcat models were television action hero’s best companions, the Special embodied family happiness in the American Dream. Fulfilling the American Dream also meant ownership of a Dream House. A utopian ideal, founded on access to individual housing rather than city building – the guarantee of social peace and Economic development: building houses, filling them with all sorts of appliances, and reaching them by car. But Flint is now bloodless. Approaching, Philippe Chancel accomplishes the crossing of Walter Evans’ photography’s graphic and temporal lines. Then, in his own way, the photographer dives into the abandoned neighbourhoods, enters neglected houses, and lays his eyes on the hidden lives – before the brutal wake up to a state of emergency – declared by Barack Obama in 2016, for deadly lead pollution of water supplies, a nefarious consequence of the factories’ grounding. Philippe Chancel refines his documentary approach with a coherent writing: the present is the force that compels him to return to the essential, to remain focused, classic, ineffective and to grasp with precision. By stepping back, he maps disappearance in a proposal to reclaim territories. His photographs awake our humanity, their presence bearing the light of a possible reversal.
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WILL ADLER & MORGAN MAASSEN
PACIFIC
The gallery is keeping up her “american dream” exploration and extends summer with the exhibition “Pacific” showing Will Adler and Morgan Maassen photography’s.
Will Adler is a 30 year old west coast photographer known for his distinctive take on the surf world. Adler’s laid back, light infused images, convey the spirit and atmosphere of place as much as the action of the sport and have earned him a cult following in surfing and photography circles. , Adler shows pictures from California shot for himself and for magazines such as Juxtapoz, Neon, Surfer, WAX, and The New Yorker. For his exhibition at the gallery Catherine and André Hug Adler has invited a friend to exhibit with him, Morgan Maassen a young photographer and filmmaker from Santa Barbara.. Both of them take a more laid-back approach in this series of atmospheric seascapes that focus on sensual pleasure, not athletic feats.
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SUSAN MEISELAS
CROSSINGS
The Gallery Catherine and André Hug presents the series “Crossings” made in 1989 by Susan Meiselas.
During her long photographic career marked by the temporality of her times, committed to topics that deserve the eye of a witness of history
and united with roaming peoples, Susan Meiselas accompanies migrants as they try to cross the border between the United States and Mexico.
The “Crossings”, series was exhibited for the first time in 1990 at the Art Institute of Chicago, portrays the risks taken by men and women
to cross the border, the dividing line between two Americas, between two realities. They are propelled across this point of entry for a better
life, drawn by the American dream, a symbol of freedom and democracy.
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GROUP SHOW
AMERICAN DREAM
Pour leur première exposition à la galerie Catherine et André Hug le duo d’artistes Sylvie Meunier et Patrick Tourneboeuf nous présente un projet partagé entre distance et tendresse qui nous plonge dans l’Amérique des années 50, dans cet âge d’or d’après guerre où tout semble possible et tout est en place pour incarner cet American Dream.
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KOURTNEY ROY
ENTER AS FICTION
Dans le cadre de Photo Saint Germain la galerie Catherine et André Hug présente la deuxième exposition personnelle de Kourtney Roy dont les autoportraits vous emmène dans un road trip à travers les paysages désertiques de l’ouest des Etats Unis. Kourtney aime raconter des histoires un peu mystérieuses ou le merveilleux surgit dans la banalité du quotidien. Le cinéma comme la littérature sont des sources d’inspiration essentielles et ses photos sont comme des images de films : des petits bouts de fiction.
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RAYMOND DEPARDON
« MANHATTAN OUT »
In 1980, Raymond Depardon has just joined Agence Magnum and for his series
Manhattan Out, he leaves for New York with a friend. Every day, he takes his camera ,pops it around his neck, and along his daily wanderings starts shooting with no focus from his chest.
On the following year in summer 1981, the photographer returns to New York
and begins Correspondance new yorkaise for the french newspaper Libération Beeing asked to send a caption daily picture from Big Apple to the newspaper, he delivers a very personal vision of New York through the melancholic view of a man permanently reflecting on the surrounding world.
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MAROESJKA LAVIGNE
ISLAND
Maroesjka Lavigne is born in 1989 , she lives and Work in Gang (Belgium). At the age of 21, the young Belgian photographer Lavigne spent four months driving alone across Iceland, pulled to the stark scenery. In her series “Island” ,snow becomes an amorphous studio backdrop, indeterminate but infinitely malleable. It swallows ground and sky; coats buses, boats, and intrepid sight-seers; and then transforms again into a bleached sink basin, chalky house paint, and a plume of white steam. In Ísland the world may be pale, but life is anything but colorless.
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COLLECTIF
WINTER SHOW
Maroesjka Lavigne, Ebbe Stubb, George Tatge, Tribble & Mancenido
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MIKI NITADORI
ODYSSEY
For the month of photography organized by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Catherine et André Hug gallery presents “Odyssey” by Miki Nitadori. It is part of a collective project organized by Valérie Fougeirol around the theme “Famous Anonymous People and Amateurs”. For this exhibition Miki focused on Japanese immigration in Hawaii, which started at the end of the nineteenth century. These Japanese-American photographs, which range from the beginning of the XIXth century up to the 1950s, will be the centerpieces of the exhibition. Miki scanned and enlarged these images, transferring them by hand onto printed fabrics representing a diverse range of cultural, traditional and symbolic models. They each reflect a particular environment and community.
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COLLECTIF
OBSERVE PERPETUALLY
The gallery presents an exhibition of black and white photos around landscape. The works from George Tatge ,Adam Katseff, Stuart Franklin( Narcissus) and Shinya Ichikawa (Mother lake)answer to Virginia Woolf who recommend “”Observe, observe perpetually” until landscape’s spiritual dimension comes out.La galerie présente une exposition de photographies en noir et blanc autour du paysage. Les travaux de George Tatge ,Adam Katseff, Stuart Franklin( Narcissus) and Shinya Ichikawa (Mother lake) répondent à Virginia Woolf qui recommande « Observe, observe perpetually » jusqu’à apprécier la dimension spirituelle du paysage…
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JESSICA CRAIG MARTIN
THE OPTIMISTS
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Jessica Craig-Martin in her exhibition “The Optimists” in Catherine and André Hug Gallery reveals once again the distance between the hypocrisy of celebrity magazines and reality behind.”I m not interested in the individual but in the compulsive celebration, voyeurism, judgment ans conspicuous consumption that are endemic to our culture. I find beauty in the optimism, mistaken as it may be, as perhaps all optimismis. My camera wants to eradicate the personnal. I see my work as abstract studies of sequins, evicted mollusks ans air conditioned mink , vanity, excess, vulnerability, arcan social, failed armor, imagining the oscars is more fabulous than beeing there. Glamour is a mirage as you approach it, it evaporates” JCM.
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KOURTNEY ROY
FIXED IN NO-TIME
Kourtney Roy mixes fiction and self-portrait through female characters too perfect encapsulated in the banality of another time .. In her wonderful presence, the heroin expects the other to give a meaning to the story and her self-portraits are movies with a unique function
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ACEY HARPER
NO LIMITS 2
Disportraits explores the correlation between the concepts of distance and space, presence and absence, and ultimately, the human condition. Matthias Schaller says ” I think the astronaut suit is a metaphor for human beings. Through them I am able in a visual and simple way to show that I believe we are all astronauts. We are all alone, we are isolated from each other. And we are all trying by verbal and non-verbal communication to get in contact with each other. To not feel alone. Each individual is a space with its own rules, materials, history and relations to the space outside of itself.”
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SUSAN MEISELAS
PRINCE STREET GIRLS
The Gallery dedicates a solo exhibition at the great figure of American Photojournalism, Susan Meiselas (born 1948) and more particularly to her former documentary projects in the streets of New York in the late 1970s. In the Little Italy neighborhood, Susan Meiselas photographed and watched grow ” Prince Street Girls” She captured their daily lives, after school or at the beach with a primary focus on their intimate relationships.
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