HELEN SEAR: WALES IN VENICE

The Experience Wales in Venice website has just been launched.

The website provides an excellent overview of the Welsh Pavilion at the Santa Maria Austiliatrice, including interviews with the artist, Helen Sear,  and the curator, Stuart Cameron. In addition to being a spotlight on the exhibition and artworks, the website provides an excellent insight into the Welsh Pavilion overall – information for teachers/educators, a spotlight on the artist/invigilators and background information on the entire team involved. 

Importantly, if you're not in Venice to see the exhibition in person—which opens to the public today—it also provides a slide show of all the artworks that form the exhibition.  

The website will continue to upload news about '... the rest is smoke' throughout the 56th Venice Biennale, which runs through to November 22, 2015. 

HELEN SEAR: 56th VENICE BIENNALE

We are delighted to share news of Helen Sear's exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale.

"... the rest is smoke"

9 May – 22 November, 2015

Santa Maria Austiliatrice

Known as one of Wales’ most significant contemporary artists, Helen Sear's practice can be characterized by her exploration of the crossover between photography and fine art, her focus on the co-existence of the human, animal, and natural worlds.

With an exemplary track record for producing high quality, conceptually rigorous work, Helen Sear’s current work shows particular maturity and sophistication, seamlessly moving between expanded notions of photography, sculpture and video, with the artist exhibiting great command of different materials and production processes.

Following the press preview, and on the occasion of the special luncheon to preview the exhibition with curators and critics, we're pleased to share here, a video walk-through of the exhibition. 

Please return to the gallery Blog as we reveal more information regarding Helen Sear's artworks, commissioned especially for the Venice Biennale.

Acquisition inquiries should be directed to Debra Klomp Ching

info@klompching.com / +1 212 796 2070

MAX DE ESTEBAN: Darmstäder Tage der Fotografie

Proposition One: Only The Ephemeral
Design House, Darmstädt,  25–27 April, 2014

We are pleased to announce, that Max de Esteban will be exhibiting at the 2014 Darmstädt Days of Photography Festival.

The series, Proposition One: Only the Ephermeral, will be shown at the Design House, as part of the main exhibition, which has a curatorial theme of Reflection – Aesthetic References.

This series has been hugely popular with our gallery visitors and clients alike. It was first shown at the gallery, as a solo show in Fall 2011 and has continued to resonate, through being regularly exhibited throughout Europe since that time. 

To learn more about the Darmstäder Festival, visit their website here. 

To revisit this series of photographs, visit our website here. 

PO5, 2011 © Max de Esteban

JIM NAUGHTEN: Contact Photography Festival

Hereros at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

May 1 – August 18, 2014

We are delighted to announce, that Jim Naughten's Hereros series will be exhibited at the 2014 Contact Photography Festival. A selection of his work, curated by Bonnie Rubenstein, will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, as part of the festival's public installations program.

Herero Woman Marching, 2012 © Jim Naughten

Further information can be found here.

To see more from the series, with print sale information, visit the gallery website.

JIM NAUGHTEN: PHOTOFESTIVAL KNOKKE-HEIST

Photofestival Knokke-Heist 2014
March 30–June 9, 2014

We are very pleased to announce the inclusion  of Jim Naughten's Hereros series in the 2014 installment of the Knokke-Heist photography festival in Belgium.

A selection of photographs from the Hereros series have been curated into the outdoor exhibition, entitled Haute Afrika, with one of the Naughten's photographs featured on the cover of the exhibition catalogue.

The festival website can be found here. 

"The title of this year’s outdoor exhibition, ‘Haute Afrika’, does not refer to a geographic region on the African continent, but to ‘Haute Couture’, or the art of creating custom-fitted clothing. We Westerners commonly associate this with big cities such as London, Paris, Milan or New York and consider haute couture to be the epitome of fashion. By incorporating Africa in this traditionally French concept, we arrive at a word combo which defies the imagination. “Haute Afrika”, a place where creativity contributes to prosperity.  

Here you won’t see photos of violent revolutions, dried out deserts or poverty. Instead this outdoor exhibition features photos of the creative inhabitants of this great continent, who showcase their sense of entrepreneurship and their “passion for fashion”.  

The photo festival zooms in on the work of photographers who communicate a multi-tiered message about African society through its fashion culture. “Haute Afrika” presents a specific type of image, with social, political and economic implications. By showing work by foreign artists who visited the continent, as well as photos by African photographers, “Haute Afrika” chooses to highlight different perspectives".—Festival Statement.

The Hereros series was first shown at the Klompching Gallery in March–April 2013, featured by the gallery at the 2013 AIPAD Photo Show and published as a monograph by Merrell Publishers (2013). Read about a museum acquisition from the series here, and a current museum exhibition in which one of the photographs is included here. 

Jim Naughten's Hereros series can be viewed online, and if you have an interest in acquiring photographs, please contact the gallery for the PDF catalogue. 

MAX DE ESTEBAN: FEST FOTO 2013

Fest Foto in Porto Alegre, Brazil
October 8, 2013–May 12, 2014

Max de Esteban will be exhibiting photographs from his Proposition One and Proposition Three series at the Fest Foto in Brazil. His work will be shown in the Dialogos Internacionais section of the festival.

Proposition One was shown at the Klompching Gallery in October–December 2011, while Proposition Three was debuted at the AIPAD Photo Fair in March 2013.

At Once Sacrilegious and Sacred, 2012 © Max de Esteban

from the Proposition Three series

For further information about the Fest Foto, visit the website HERE.

Please note: we are currently updating the gallery website with more of Max de Esteban's work.

THE DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL

Once again the Klompchng Gallery is delighted to support the annual DUMBO Arts Festival.

Each year the festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to, and presence in the arts community, by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

The DUMBO Arts Festival attracts c.200,000 visitors over 3 days, with the participation of over 500 artists from a variety of disciplines, 100 studios, 50 galleries and stages and 100 programming partners.

The gallery's solo exhibition of photographic artwork by Cara Barer forms part of the official festival program. Please stop by the gallery and, if you love the exhibition as much as we do, consider putting it forward for the festival's Audience Award by taking an Instagram picture of it with the hashtags #CaraBarer #DAF13.

We'll be open with extended hours for the duration of the festival as follows:

Friday, September 27: 11am–9pm
Saturday, September 28: 11am–9pm
Sunday, September 29: 12oon–6pm

For full information, visit the festival website HERE.

DUMBO Arts Festival

Each year in the Fall,  our neighborhood becomes a frenzy of activity, when the DUMBO Arts Festival presents a broad selection of local, national and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

Attracting circa 200,000 visitors over 3 days, the festival  features 500 artists from a variety of disciplines, 100 studios, 50 galleries and stages and 100 programming partners. The festival is upon us; opening tomorrow.

Friday: 6pm—9pm

Saturday: 12pm—8pm

Sunday: 12pm—6pm

As with previous years, Klompching Gallery will be open throughout the festival. We look forward to seeing you over the course of this weekend and please consider us for the AT&T Audience Award.