To mark the final day of the Nature as Artifice exhibition at Aperture Gallery, Aperture presents a recording of the panel discussion with curator Maartje van den Heuvel, catalog editor Tracy Metz, artists Jannes Linders, Hans van der Meer, Frank van der Salm, Edwin Zwakman, and Alison Nordstrom of the George Eastman House, is available on our website.

You can watch this short excerpt below where curator Maartje van den Heuvel presents the spirit of the project, a major survey of photography and video work by contemporary Dutch artists who, over the past twenty years, have taken contemporary Holland as their point of departure. A slide-show of images from the Aperture exhibition illustrates her introduction:

Nature as Artifice panel discussion-Introduction Excerpt from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

You can watch the entire panel discussion divided in five different clips, in the multimedia section of our website or by clicking the links below:
Part 1: Introduction by Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel and artist’s presentation by Jannes Linders
Part 2: Artist’s presentations by Frank van der Salm and Edwin Zwakman
Part 3: Artist’s presentation by Hans van der Meer
Part 4: Panel Discussion 1/2
Part 5: Panel Discussion 2/2

The exhibition, on view at Aperture Gallery from September 10 until October 15, 2009, features the work of Hans Aarsman, Wout Berger, Henze Boekhout, Driessens & Verstappen, Marnix Goossens, Arnoud Holleman, Gert Jan Kocken, Jannes Linders, Cary Markerink & Theo Baart, Hans van der Meer, Gábor Ösz, Bas Princen, Xavier Ribas, Gerco de Ruijter, Frank van der Salm, Hans Werlemann, and Edwin Zwakman.

Click the above links to view limited-edition prints available through Aperture.

Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, New York. The exhibition was organized by ALIA Foundation, Amsterdam, and is toured by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation.

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW is a NYC-based arts non-profit, operating in many cities globally, that aims to bring people together around food and art, and to give people an interesting, engaging, and fun platform for sharing art with their community. We are pleased to announce that Slideluck Potshow XIV will be taking place on Friday, November 13, 2009 at  Aperture Gallery and will be co-curated by Lesley Martin, Aperture’s book publisher.

The theme of their fourteenth show in New York City is INSIDE OUT.  This could be about being on the outside, looking in.  Or it might be about the idea of space:  boundaries, architecture, interiority.  Give us something against type, that reverses the expected order of things – work that turns things upside down, or rather, INSIDE OUT.  The submission deadline is Monday, October 26th.

Guidlines can be found here.
For this show, all guests will need to purchase $10 tickets support of both SLPS and The Aperture Foundation.  Due to spatial limitations, this event will be considerably more intimate than recent NYC Slidelucks.  If you are serious about securing a spot for this show, we invite you to purchase your tickets immediately!

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW XIV
Friday, November 13th, 2009  |  7pm Potluck  |  9pm Slideshow
The Aperture Foundation  |  547 W. 27th St, 4th Floor  | New York, NY  |  10001
$10 Donation Required |  Submissions Info

Paolo Ventura on Winter Stories from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

Watch an interview of artist Paolo Ventura in his studio discussing work from his new book Winter Stories (Aperture, October 2009). In this clip, Ventura explains the origin of the project as well as his inspirations. He also shows the different steps of his work leading to the final photograph, from the drawings, crafting the characters and sets, to his preliminary polaroids.

Join internationally acclaimed artist, Paolo Ventura, for a special evening of show-and-tell on Tuesday, October 13, 6:30 pm. with Aperture’s Book Editor, Denise Wolff, to celebrate Ventura’s new book, Winter Stories. Ventura will display many of his elaborate handmade sets, drawings, ephemera, and personal collections, sharing stories from the book and his life. He will also be available to sign copies of this just-released publication.
Click here for full event details.

Click here to purchase Winter Stories from Aperture.

Click here to view more interviews and multimedia features from Aperture.

Now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center, Challenging Vision, a 60-year retrospective exhibition guest curated by Kenneth C. Burkhart that celebrates the career of Chicago-based photographer Barbara Crane. Including over 200 photographs, this collection of her many separate projects make up the most complete survey of her work to date. Aperture published her most recent monograph, Private Views, which celebrates the 1980’s culture as captured through Crane’s Polaroid photography. A special exhibition of her work from Private Views will open at Aperture Gallery on November 2, and Crane will be in conversation with Barbara Hitchcock on November 11 at Aperture Gallery.

Click here to purchase your copy of Private Views through Aperture.

Click here to purchase a signed limited-edition print from Barbara Crane through Aperture.

Click here to view an interview with Barbara Crane courtesy of the Amon Carter Center.

Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday, October 3—Sunday, January 10, 2010
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall
78 E. Washington Street, Chicago
(312) 744-6630

On the occasion of World Habitat Day, The National Building Museum in Washington D.C. presents Jonas Bendiksen’s body of work, The Places We Live, on view through January 15, 2010 and published by Aperture last Fall.  For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. One-third of those city dwellers—over a billion people—live in slums, mostly in the rapidly urbanising cities of Africa and Asia. Slums have become the fastest growing human habitat in the world. The Obama Administration with UN-HABITAT co-hosts the global celebrations of World Habitat Day in Washington, D.C. on October 5th, an event celebrated on the first Monday in October each year. World Habitat Day this year will focus on the theme of improved urban planning so that our cities can manage and reduce the impacts of climate disruption, the economic crisis and urban poverty around the world.

Visit Aperture’s microsite for The Places We Live to learn more about this important project.

Click here to purchase your copy of The Places We Live through Aperture.

Click here to read the FLYP Media interview with photographer Jonas Bendiksen.

Jonas Bendiksen: The Places We Live
Thursday, September 17, 2009—Friday, January 15, 2010
The National Building Museum
401 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

James Welling’s photograms have earned him attention both in Aperture magazine issue #190 and Aperture’s recent publication, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography. His cameraless works are both aesthetically beautiful and challenging to the trajectory of photography.  Welling will be speaking at Aperture Gallery tomorrow, Tuesday night as part of the Parsons lecture series at 7 pm.

FREE

Artist’s Talk with James Welling
Tuesday, October 6, 7:00 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Join Aperture at the New York Art Book Fair, Printed Matter’s annual fair of contemporary art books, catalogs, artists’ books, periodicals, and ‘zines offered for sale by over 200 international publishers, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers representing the best in contemporary art publications. This year’s fair is held at New York Art Book Fair at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City.

FREE

New York Art Book Fair

Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3, 11 am-7 pm

Sunday, October 4, 11 am-5 pm

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens