Until 11 December 2011
10.00-18.00, until 20.00 Thursdays

Embankment Galleries

For centuries, Venice has inspired intellectuals, writers and artists with its ravishing beauty, riches and strangeness. Now, in a major exhibition, fourteen internationally renowned artists have created a series of meaningful and original photographic images of Venice, perhaps the most photographed but seriously threatened city in the world. The resulting images show Venice in all its beauty, but also in all its paradoxes and contrasts. As well as addressing the everyday life of the city’s inhabitants, its iconic monuments and modern architecture, the photographs capture the ravages wrought by mass tourism and the rise of the lagoon water level.The artists are: Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Antonio Girbés, Nan Goldin, Pierre Gonnord, Dionisio Gonzalez, Candida Höfer, Tiina Itkonen, Mimmo Jodice, Tim Parchikov, Matthias Schaller, Jules Spinatsch, Robert Walker and Hiroshi Watanabe.

Film Screenings

We celebrate the exhibition with a classic selection of themed cinema screenings. The city has captivated a host of film-makers with its complex mixture of dazzling light, mysterious labyrinthine canals and air of nostalgic grandeur. Join us for Don’t Look Now on Sat 22 Oct and Death in Venice on Sat 5 Nov.

Late Studios for Adults

Discover the spirit of Venice at our creative Late Studios for adults; make your own spectacular mask or headdress fit for a Venetian masquerade at Venice - City of Water on Wed 2 Nov and Venice - City of Masks on Wed 30 Nov. Ticket price includes gallery entry and a complimentary glass of fizz.

All of the works in Real Venice have been donated by the artists to be sold in aid of Venice in Peril.

In addition, selected works from the artists’ portfolios will be sold at auction as part of the Phillips de Pury Photographs Sale on 3 November 2011. These will be on view at Phillips de Pury Howick Place from 27 October – 3 November 2011. The remaining works are available to purchase online at www.realvenice.org.

The exhibition has been curated by Elena Foster, founder of Ivorypress and mounted by the Venice in Peril Fund.

SOME/THINGS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 / SHE HAS NO STRINGS APOLLO LAUNCHED WORLDWIDE, COMMENCING AT THE SOME/THINGS
SPACE— SOME/THINGS SECRET— ON SEPTEMBER 30TH 2011.

CHAPTER005 / THE EARTH, ITS SURFACE, THE TRANSFORMATION OF MATTER— TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME & CULTURE. OPENING WITH PIERRE GONNORD’S CARAVAGGIO-ESQUE PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MARGINS OF CONTEMPORARY SPANISH SOCIETY. THE WORK OF AWARD-WINNING PHOTOJOURNALIST STEVE MCCURRY [PHOTOGRAPHER OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S ‘AFGHAN GIRL’] FOCUSING ON HIS PORTRAITS OF MEN SHOT IN PAKISTAN, INDIA, & AFGHANISTAN— ALSO IMAGES FROM THE GULF WAR & KUWAIT OIL FIRES IN 1991. THIS IS ACCOMPANIED BY A UNIQUE TESTIMONY FROM DR. ADEL ALYOUSIFI,ONE OF THE FEW NATIVE KUWAITI’S TO DOCUMENT ARCHITECTURAL DEVASTATION DURING & AFTER THE CONFLICT.

A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED SERIES DEPICTING RAJASTHANI STEPWELLS [200-950AD] BY ACCLAIMED INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHER JACQUES DIRAND & HIS SON ADRIEN; AS WELL AS WORKS FROM NAOYA HATAKEYAMA’S ‘UNDERGROUND’ SERIES TO COINCIDE WITH THE UPCOMING ‘NATURAL STORIES’ EXHIBITION AT THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY. DAVID MAISEL’S IMAGES DEPICTING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA; DEAD CRATERS BY SOME/THINGS PAST-CONTRIBUTOR BERNHARD EDMAIER; AS WELL AS A CURATED SELECTION OF WORKS & CONVERSATION WITH RARELY INTERVIEWED ARTIST MONA HATOUM.

AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN ŠARUNAS BARTAS & HIS PARTNER JURGA DIKCIUVIENE, ACCOMPANIED BY PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED RUSHES FROM HIS FILM ‘A CASA’; A SUBSTANTIAL FEATURE ON GREEK DIRECTOR THEO ANGELOPOULOS, WITH PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FROM ‘ULYSSES’ GAZE’ [GRAND JURY PRIZE, CANNES, 1995], WITH HARVEY KEITEL. RECOLLECTIONS FROM THEO ANGELOPOULOS’ LONG-TIME COLLABORATOR & ONE OF GREECE’S MOST RENOWNED COMPOSERS ELENI KARAINDROU. AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH COMPOSER/DIRECTOR MICHAEL NYMAN; INTERVIEWS WITH CONTEMPORARY PIANIST & COMPOSER MAX RICHTER [HIS ACCLAIMED ALBUM THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS RECORDED WITH TILDA SWINTON]; ALSO JONNINE STANDISH & NIGEL YANG OF HTRK. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES INCLUDE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PROJECTS FROM TOM KUNDIG [OLSONKUNDIG ARCHITECTS] AS WELL AS WORKS BY DISTINGUISHED BELGIAN ARCHITECT JULIAAN LAMPENS [IN COLLABORATION WITH THE JULIAAN LAMPENS FOUNDATION].

FASHION EDITORIAL WITH ARTIST NORA RENAUD SHOT IN THE BYZANTINE HALL OF L’AMBASSADE DE ROUMANIE— FORMERLY THE HÔTEL PARTICULIER OF COMTESSE MARTINE DE BÉHAGUE. INFUSED
WITH MIDDLE EASTERN AESTHETICS— LAYERING TEXTURES— ROUGH FABRICS, KNITS, LEATHER, EXQUISITE FURS & SILKS— WITH PIECES FROM THE GARETH PUGH ARCHIVES, RICK OWENS PALAIS ROYAL FUR & JEWELLERY LINES, GIVENCHY, ABRAXAS REX, ELIE SAAB, BORIS BIDJAN SABERI, COMME DES GARÇONS HOMME+, HAIDER ACKERMANN, NICOLAS ANDREAS TARALIS, BERNARD DELLETREZ, UMA WANG, KEI KAGAMI & CHINESE COUTURIER YIQING YIN, IN ADDITION TO VINTAGE REVILLON.

FOLLOWING AN EXTENSIVE LOOK INSIDE THE RICK OWENS FACTORY & STUDIO & THE ATELIER OF MAURIZIO ALTIERI IN CHAPTER004, CHAPTER005 FEATURES REPORTAGE FROM THE GUIDI TANNERY IN TUSCANY; MILAN-BASED, AUSTRIAN DESIGNER CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL’S INSTALLATION ‘SQUARTTER’; & ALSO A FIRST-EVER INTERVIEW WITH PAUL HARNDEN, ACCOMPANIED BY STILLS FROM HIS SUPER-8 SHORT FILM—CO-PRODUCED WITH SOME/THINGS AGENCY— DOCUMENTING ONE OF THE OLDEST PATTERN MILLS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. EACH COPY OF CHAPTER005 WILL INCLUDE A LIMITED EDITION DVD OF THE FILM. CHAPTER005 ALSO INCLUDES A LOOK AT THE INSPIRATION FOR RICK OWENS’ UNRELEASED PERFUME— WHICH MAY OR MAY NEVER BE MADE AVAILABLE— ENTITLED ‘THE SMELL OF DYING LILIES’, PHOTOGRAPHED BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MUSÉE GUSTAVE MOREAU IN PARIS. AS PART OF THIS COLLABORATION, ALL COPIES OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 WILL COME WITH RICK OWENS CASHMERE WRAP, SCENTED WITH THE UNRELEASED PERFUME— AN EXCLUSIVE, YET EPHEMERAL, WORLDWIDE AVANT-PREMIÈRE.

FULL LINEUP INCLUDES / ADALBERTO GIAZOTTO, ADEL AL-YOUSIFI, ADRIEN DIRAND, ALEX MASSAVETAS, ATHINA KAZOLEA, BERNHARD EDMAIER, CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL, DAVID MAISEL, DUSTIN EDWARD ARNOLD, ELENI KARAINDROU, GUIDI, HTRK, HANS DANUSER, JACQUES DIRAND, JOHN GOW, JULIAAN LAMPENS, KATSUYA KAMO, KENRO IZU, MICHAEL GRAHAM-STEWART, MICHAEL NYMAN, MONA HATOUM, MOTE SINABEL, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, NICHOLAS ALAN COPE, NORA RENAUD, PAUL HARNDEN, PIERRE GONNORD, RICK OWENS, ŠARuNAS BARTAS, STEVE MCCURRY, THEO ANGELOPOULOS & TOM KUNDIG.

SOME/THINGS CHAPTER005, IN COLLABORATION WITH ANTALIS, arjowiggins creative papers & ARJOWIGGINS graphic, FEATURES 13 TYPES OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY RECYCLED PAPERS, INCLUDING THE FIRST EVER RELEASE OF THE KEAYKOLOUR RECYCLED RANGE, PRINTED BY THE HISTORIC PARISIAN PRINTING HOUSE IMPRIMERIE COMELLI— FOUNDED IN 1924 BY MOÏSE PASCAL COMELLI.

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010-029 PIERRE GONNORD / MYTHS

LOS SALARES [2009]



[...THE PRIMITIVE MAGIC OF PHOTOGRAPHY / THE PORTRAIT AS AN ATTEMPT TO INVENT AN ETERNITY... THE PEOPLE I DECIDE TO MEET & PHOTOGRAPH ARE OFTEN FROM TRADITIONAL CULTURES & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE CAMERA IS VERY SPECIAL, FOR REASONS OF FAITH & SOCIAL ORIGINS... THEY HAVE HAD LITTLE EXPERIENCE WITH PORTRAITURE & HAVE AN IMMENSE RESPECT FOR THE IMAGES. PICTURES OFTEN MARK IMPORTANT EVENTS— BIRTH, FIRST COMMUNION, MARRIAGE, & DEATH. PHOTOGRA- PHY STILL REMAINS FOR THEM A RITUAL IN WHICH ONE GIVES A LOT; IT TAKES THE SOUL ON THE ROAD. THEY HAVE LOOKED AT MY WORK VERY CAREFULLY, CONSIDERED & AGREED TO GIVE VERY SERIOUSLY TO THIS RITUAL. THEY THEN RECEIVE A SMALL ALBUM, A PORTFOLIO OF OUR MEETING THAT I PERSONALLY DELIVER IN GRATITUDE THAT GOES IN THE DRESSER DRAWER OR CABINET WITH OTHER ‘RELICS’ OR PHOTO- GRAPHS OF THE FAMILY. & I FIND IT VERY BEAUTIFUL, VERY TOUCHING AT A TIME WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED ITS MEANING & PLACE.

DA VINCI SAID THAT THE FIRST PORTRAIT WAS BORN WHEN MAN HAS SEEN, BEEN MADE AWARE OF, HIS CONDITION & TRAVERSED THE CONTOURS OF HIS SHAD- OW ON A WALL. WHEN WE VISIT THE CAIRO MUSEUM, NAPLES, ATHENS... OR PLACES THAT HOLD WONDERFUL TREASURES & SECRETS, WHAT FASCINATES US BEYOND THE BEAUTY & MYSTERY IS THE PROXIMITY OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED SO LONG AGO & THE COMMUNION OF FEELING & THE COMMUNION OF HUMANITY SEPARATED BY SO MANY AGES. THE CIVILISED WORLD WAS FIRST A MESOPOTAMIAN CRADLE OF WRITING & THE MEDITERRANEAN— EGYPT, CRETE, GREECE, & ROME GIVE US THE FIRST GREAT PORTRAITS, THE FIRST ‘CIVILISED’ PERFORMANCES OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. THE BODY IS ‘TOO MUCH’ OF A REALITY THAT WE CAN’T ESCAPE... THE BODY, AS SAID BY PROUST & FOUCAULT, IS A PRISON IMPOSED ON US & ONE THAT WE TRY TO ES- CAPE OR TRANSFORM TO OUR WILL. THIS BODY— A BODY WITH WHICH WE PRESENT OURSELVES TO OTHERS & WE AWAKE WITH EVERY MORNING. THIS GRID OF WINDOWS IN THE FACE IN WHICH WE ARE TRAPPED! THE PORTRAIT IS IN SOME WAY A UTOPIA, AN IDEA THAT CAN ESCAPE FROM A REALITY IT CLAIMS TO REPRESENT. IT IDEALISES & SPEAKS MUCH BETTER OF WHAT IS TRAPPED INSIDE & CAN ONLY ESCAPE THROUGH THOUGHTS & DREAMS. BEYOND THE PERSON WHO IS REPRESENTED THERE IS THE IDEA OF COMMON HUMANITY THAT IS UNIVERSAL & TIMELESS.

IT IS BY THE FACE THAT WE MAKE CONSCIOUS THE HUMAN QUALITIES OF THE OTHER & THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN ALL THE PORTRAITS OF GREAT CIVILI- SATIONS. IN OUR WORLD IT IS OFTEN A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN INTERCESSION OF GRACE & LOVE. THE FACE OF THE SAINT. THE KING OF REDEMPTION. THEN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION & SECULARISM. A CONSIDERATION OF THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGY, AN- THROPOLOGY, & SOCIOLOGY... THE PORTRAIT ARTIST ADDRESSES THESE ISSUES WITHOUT THE STATE; CONTEMPLATING THE OTHER, WE ARE AWARE OF OUR NATURE...]

/ EXCERPT FROM A CONVERSATION BETWEEN PIERRE GONNORD & RUFUS KNIGHT. ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLY IN THE PRINTED EDITION OF SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE CHAPTER005 / SHE HAS NO STRINGS APOLLO

MARIA [2009] / SENÉN [2009]

EL MANUEL [2009]