Adrift in Vienna
With the arrival of the first tentative signs of Summer, we at Gasket are delighted to announce our collaboration with the Viennese Galerie Ruberl. One of the great strengths of having a team from such diverse backgrounds is the opportunities it provides to connect with people and spaces all across Europe. Galerie Ruberl is an...
Gasket curates…
Last Wednesday Gasket had the opportunity to curate an exhibition for a private event held at a prestigious architectural firm within the City. Installed for a single night only, Gasket’s role was to select and curate a group of artists whose work reflected the event theme of ‘Momentum.’ Celebrating a key moment in both the...
Uncanny Landscapes
The fields of photography and sociology seem to be enjoying a growing awareness of the ways in which they can both enrich and strengthen one other. This is typified by the wide range of events that are appearing within the academic and arts landscape, events which are bringing together practitioners from diverse backgrounds but with a shared...
Adrift Publications and The Velvet Cell
Firstly a huge thank you to all who came our inaugural exhibition last month. We were proud to be able to put together such a strong collection of artists and were gratified both by how many of you came to see it and the positive feedback we received. We’ll post more in the coming weeks...
Richard Avedon – Gagosian Gallery, New York
Our recent sojourn to New York had a list of ‘must-dos’ whose completion was always doomed to failure, but one item on the agenda that brooked no compromise was a trip to the west side Gagosian to see Richard Avedon’s ‘Murals & Portraits.’ The Gagosian is all that you expect a seminal contemporary gallery to...
London Festival of Photography Syposium – Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private – Part 2
This is part 2 of our coverage of the London Festival of Photography symposium held on June 9th, if you missed it, check out Part 1. Following the lunchbreak the symposium restarted with another discussion piece, this one hosted by Firecracker (an online platform supporting European female photographers). Fiona Rogers of Firecracker introduced three female...
London Festival of Photography Syposium – Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private – Part 1
On Saturday the 9th of June the London Festival of Photography held its symposium titled Inside Out: Reflections on the Pubic and Private. The symposium presented a broad range of practitioners and topics, all loosely relating to the title and theme of the festival. Held at King’s Place near Kings Cross the full day symposium was well...
Francesca Woodman – Guggenheim March 16 – June 13 2012
The word that seems most often repeated when it comes to the work of Francesca Woodman is ‘gothic’, yet what struck me most in the comprehensive exhibition currently on show at the Guggenheim is the honesty and rawness of the work. I wasn’t overly familiar with Woodman’s images before coming to the exhibition, and perhaps...
Control – Anton Corbijn
Last week we were lucky enough to attend a screening of Anton Corbijn’s Control presented by clever people from Hungry Eye Magazine and Jim Stephenson’s miniclick photography talks. For those unfamiliar with the 2007 film, Control follows the life of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the band Joy Division, from 1973 until 1980, the year Curtis committed...
Transitions & Continuities – Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff currently seems to be everywhere. Not only is he majorly featured and interviewed in the April 2012 issue of the British Journal of Photography but he is also subject of a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. This exhibition chronologically covers the making of certainly one of the most important German photographers of...
Around the Galleries
A selection of current photographic exhibitions that sparked our interest. Exhibition descriptions come from the host gallery websites as linked. Dan Holdsworth – Transmission: New Remote Earth Views Brancolini Grimaldi Until the 19th May ‘In Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, Holdsworth appropriates topographical data to document the ideologically and politically loaded spaces of the American...
Around the Galleries
A selection of current photographic exhibitions that sparked our interest. Exhibition descriptions come from the host gallery websites as linked. David LaChapelle – Earth Laughs in Flowers Robilant + Voena Until the 24th March 2012 ‘In this new series of ten works DAVID LACHAPELLE (Born 1964) explores the vanity of life and beauty. With titles...
