World Premiere: Miles Aldridge (after Cattelan) at Reflex Gallery

Posted on 25/09/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

World Premiere: Miles Aldridge (after Cattelan) at Reflex Gallery

Reflex Gallery has presented the latest series ‘(after Cattelan)‘ by British Photographer Miles Aldridge at the photography-fair Unseen Amsterdam: a world premiere. For the ‘(after Cattelan)‘ project, Miles Aldridge was invited by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan to photograph in his exhibition ‘Not Afraid of Love‘ at the Musee de la Monnaie in Paris, which will run through 21-10-2016, and to respond to his art. This special collaboration resulted in a series of six pictures, in which Aldridge’s models are having a dialogue with the most famous sculptures by Maurizio Cattelan .

Miles Aldridge (after Cattelan) (image courtesy of Reflex Gallery Amsterdam)

polaroids by Miles Aldridge

polaroids by Miles Aldridge for sale at Unseen Amsterdam

View of the exhibition KAPUTT, 2013 Taxidermied horses Edition of 3, plus 2 artist’s proofs of Untitled, 2007 Image provided by Fondation Beyeler / Photo: Serge Hasenböhler, Basel

If you haven’t been to the Unseen Amsterdam fair you probably will have a chance to see and/or buy this work if you visit the Reflex Gallery

(images credits: reflex gallery / mimi berlin/ artsy.net)

Teen Spirit Island by Joscha Steffens

Posted on 29/09/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Teen Spirit Island by Joscha Steffens

Aphromoo from the Series: Teen Spirit Island, each 60 x 80 cm, C-Print, 2015

Doublelift from the Series: Teen Spirit Island, each 60 x 80 cm, C-Print, 2015

From the Series: Teen Spirit Island, each 60 x 80 cm, C-Print, 2015

As you can see these series (2 out of 6) are portraits of gamers, they are very dark ones (more so in real life) The boys are made barely visible by photographer joschasteffens.de, resident Artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2016), but you can still see that they are true boys; playing playing playing. (We know it’s called gaming but we think playing is a word that is more suitable for boys, in general.) If they were men they could be pilots of some kind, or any other proffession where you sit behind a screen with devices stuck to your face…..We, at Mimi Berlin, love boys.

As seen at the Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2016

Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2014

Posted on 22/09/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2014

unseen photo fair at the westerpark in amsterdam, entrance

unseen photo fair at the westerpark in amsterdam,

The most busy booth at the fair: Ravesteijn Gallery with work by Freudenthal/Verhagen

unseen photo fair at the westerpark in amsterdam,

Cornford and Cross, A month in the country (2013)

Miklos Gaal, Pieces of the Sky, 2014

Martina Bacigalupo Gulu Real Art Studio Portrait III, 2014 © Martina Bacigalupo/Camilla Grimaldi

Boetzelaer|Nispen Gallery, Amsterdam

Takashi Suzuku, Bau Series, 2010-2014/KANA KAWANISHI

Hannah Whitaker, Limonene 26 + 15, 2013

J’accuse by Ruud van Empel

unseen photo fair

Simon Rimaz, Unusual view of unknown subjects. Winner of the Unseen Dummty Award 2014

Simon Rimaz, one page from his book Unusual view of unknown subjects. Winner of the Unseen Dummty Award 2014

escaltor with “jump cushion” at the unseen book market

Yesterday we (Mimi Blogger Team) visited the Unseen photo fair in Amsterdam. Unseen is a small fair showcasing international gallery’s/artists. As we wandered through the booths we noticed a lot of anonymity on show. Faces hidden, cut out or otherwise undone of their identity. The hidden image (with white paint) by Cornford and Cross was the most anonymous work at the fair by far. Also on show; a lot of product photography. Everyday-products such as toys, machines, food and what have you not, were both altered (mostly stacked) or left untouched, then photographed. We took some photo’s for you all of what we noticed. Do visit the Unseen site if you’d like to see what we didn’t notice. Continue reading →