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Seminar at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 22 February 2012

Jan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:16:06 +0000

On Wednesday, 22 February, I will give a seminar with the title Bureaucratics and Other Unorderly Subjects, 5.30 pm, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum South Room. It will be followed by “informal discussion and refreshments.” Organised by: Julian Stallabrass (julian.stallabrass@courtauld.ac.uk) and Pei-Kuei Tsai (Pei-Kuei.Tsai@courtauld.ac.uk), free admission.

Further information here

“Down&Out in the South” exhibited in Taiwan

Jan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:39:18 +0000

My recently completed project Down and Out in the South featuring homeless men and women from the Southern USA (Columbia, SC, Atlanta, GA, and the Mississippi Delta) has been selected as part of an exhibition in the JJ-W Hotel in Tainan, Taiwan during April and May 2012. The exhibition, “Non-Homes: Living in Art and Art Living in the JJ-W Hotel,” intends to bring new thoughts to art and to the hotel itself. The JJ-W Hotel is a hybrid of a hotel, gallery, forum, and online platform, as well as a long-term experimental project that aims to host various cultural events. Provisionally called “Face-to-Face Room,” visitors of this exhibition will “live” with the art by spending a night in a Face-to-Face room. These are temporary rooms set up in the JJ-W Hotel’s experimental exhibition space. The curator of the exhibition, Pei-Kuei Tsai (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) proposes to integrate the photographs from “Down and Out in the South” into the walls of the Face-to-Face Room, transforming the whole room into an artwork itself. He believes that this will offer a thought-provoking experience, allowing visitors/guests to reflect on the meanings of (non-)home.

The “Non-Homes…” exhibition has been recognised by Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation as one of the best curated exhibitions for 2012. Among some of the participants already planned are film directors Ming-liang Tsai and Kang-sheng Lee, photographers Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Julian Stallabrass and director of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Pei-ni, Beatrice Hsieh.

For more information, see the JJ-W Hotel or the Courtauld Institute of Art.

“National Identities” in PDN (January 2012)

Jan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:42:37 +0000

Now also in the online version of PDN (with correct spelling of the name “Banning”):

Opening exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2011: foto’s

Jan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:07:04 +0000

An impression of the opening of my exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, last saturday (Dec 10, 2011). Photos courtesy Eduard de Kam.

Opening exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2011

Jan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:33:26 +0000

For non-Dutch speakers: Opening is on December 10 at 4pm, Keizersgracht 105, 1015 CH Amsterdam.

UITNODIGING OPENING EXPOSITIE

Op zaterdag 10 december 2011 van 15.30 tot 18.00 uur start de solo-expositie van Jan Banning bij Galerie Fontana Fortuna. De expositie zal in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaar om 16.00 uur worden geopend door Alexander Rinnooy Kan. De galerie zal tevens geopend zijn op zondag 11 december van 14.00 tot 18.00 uur.

Jan Banning kan worden betiteld als de maker van Nederlands meest succesvolle fototentoonstelling ooit: zijn serie Bureaucratics is op meer dan 30 locaties wereldwijd tentoongesteld: van New York en Washington tot Berlijn en Sint-Petersburg en van Argentinië tot Kazachstan.

Hij ontving voor zijn foto’s vele nationale en internationale prijzen, waaronder de World Press Photo 2004. Het werk van Jan Banning is reeds tentoongesteld in vele musea en tijdens fotofestivals, waaronder de Kunsthal te Rotterdam en New York Photo Festival 2008 (zie exhibitions/). De complete series Sporen van Oorlog en Troostmeisjes zijn aangekocht door het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam. In zijn werk, waarin kunst en journalistiek samenkomen, gaat het veelal om machtskwesties. Hij maakt series over langetermijngevolgen van oorlog en over bureaucratie.

Tijdens de expositie zullen wij de eerste werken tonen uit zijn meest recente en reeds fameuze serie National Identities. Marokkaanse met aanvraagformulier voor inburgeringscursus bij gesloten raam, geïnspireerd op Vermeer, is op de ZomerExpo 2011 te zien geweest in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Galerie Fontana Fortuna heeft de primeur om de twee werken geïnspireerd op Jan Six van Rembrandt en Olympia van Manet voor het eerst aan het publiek te tonen. Daarnaast zal een selectie worden gepresenteerd uit zijn vermaarde series Bureaucratics, Troostmeisjes, The Face of Poverty, Law&Order, en Vermeer in Vietnam.

De expositie duurt van 10 december 2011 tot en met 25 februari 2012. Meer informatie en een overzicht van het werk van Jan Banning is te vinden op www.fontanafortuna.com en www.janbanning.com

Joris Montens en Stefan Heinis

Galerie Fontana Fortuna

Keizersgracht 105

1015 CH Amsterdam

06-21578045

020-7370597

info@fontanafortuna.com

“Law and Order” Runner-Up in Forward Thinking Museum Contest

Jan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:27:02 +0000

Three of the photos from my Work in Progress “Law and Order” were selected as Runners-Up in the 2011 Photography Contest of The Forward Thinking Museum (Artist Level), New York, NY, USA.

Last Supper

Jan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:35:43 +0000

While in the Mississippi Delta, working on “Down and Out in the South”, I wanted to share this photo with y’all who are interested in my work. I made this not entirely serious tribute to Leonardo da Vinci at the request of the poetry club of Judith Schut and friends in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It has been published in a booklet of poems (concentrating on their favorite materials and objects), on the occasion of the club’s 20th anniversary.

“Bureaucratics” in Vienna

Jan Banning — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:32:43 +0000

“Bureaucratics” will open on November 16, 2011, in the Palais Porcia, the Administrative Library of the Austrian Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellery) in Vienna, Austria. The show runs November 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012.

The Newsweek Cover That Never Was

Jan Banning — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:45:43 +0000

Newsweek had plans to publish my anti-xenophobic version of a Vermeer painting on the cover of this week’s issue but due to the passing of Steve Jobs, they changed the cover to reflect that news. Instead, Newsweek has published my photo along with my artist statement inside this week’s issue on pages 46-49 under the title: “The Clasp of Civilizations: A Subversive Reimagining of Three European Masterpieces.” The photo is from my series “National Identities,”which is currently a series of three photos that I have produced. Two of the photos can also been seen on the online version of Newsweek.

Traces of War and Comfort Women Featured in Visura Magazine, Issue 12

Jan Banning — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:38:56 +0000

Traces of War and Comfort Women have been featured in Issue #12 of Visura Magazine. A short history of both of these photo projects (how I began them and why I undertook them in the first place) accompanies selected photographs from the two photo series. Each project was published in its entirety as a photo book in 2006 (Traces of War) and 2010 (Comfort Women). Read the feature in Visura here. For further information and to see all of the photographs for both series you can pick up a copy of the books at Photoeye or Amazon.com.