New Year, 2010, © Jowhara AlSaud

Kicking off the 2012 art season, check out highlights on view throughout New York! See below for some of our favorite Aperture artists and galleries.

New Photographers at Dazinger Gallery, January 12–February 25, introducing five emerging photographers unlinked to one another through content but brought together for their first time exhibiting in New York City. Featured photographer Tereza Vlčkovà from Aperture’s groundbreaking book, reGeneration 2: tomorrow’s photographers today.

Silverstein Annual at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, January 14–February 25, offers exposure to ten up-and-coming photographers who have been chosen by ten prominent curators, including Nelli Palomaki, reGeneration 2 artist. View her limited edition prints available through Aperture.

Penetration at Foley Gallery, January 12–March 3, recreates the photographic image with five artists who interrupt the common photographic process. Portfolio Prize 2008 Runner-Up Jowhara AlSaud’s portraits of faceless figures, inspired by censorship, are personal photographs made into drawings etched on the surface of a negative, view her limited edition prints here. Pushing the capabilities of photographic paper itself, Marco Breuer scratches and scrapes the light-sensitive paper making conceptual, abstract imagery. See Breuer’s limited edition book by Aperture Early Recordings and Untitled 2007 and the highly acclaimed compilation The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, he was also featured in Aperture magazine issue 172.

Joel Sternfeld: First Pictures at Luhring Augustine, January 6–February 4, displays a selection of Joel Sternfeld’s earliest photographs, taken between 1971 and 1980, documenting his travels across America through vibrant colors twined with wit and satire.

Visions: Tim Hetherington at Bronx Documentary Center, through January 22, is the inaugural exhibit featuring photography and multimedia work produced by photojournalist Tim Hetherington who was killed in April of 2011 as he covered Libya’s revolution.

First Look at Yossi Milo Gallery, January 26–February 18, is the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space located at 245 Tenth Avenue. The photographers included all had their first solo New York City exhibition presented by the Yossi Milo Gallery. These artists include Robert Bergman, Mohamed Bourouissa, Pieter Hugo, Simen Johan, Sze Tsung Leong, Loretta Lux, Yuki Onodera, Muzi Quawson, Mark Ruwedel, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Lise Sarfati, Alec Soth, Kohei Yoshiyuki and Liu Zheng. A celebration will be held in honor of these photographers on February 16 from 6:00–8:00 pm.

from Permanent Error, 2009. © Pieter Hugo

RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet

Exhibition on view:
December 1, 2011–April 29, 2012

National Museum of XXI Century Arts (MAXXI):
Via Guido Reni, 4/A
00196
Rome, Italy
+39 06 399 67 350

The National Museum of XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) will explore artistic approaches to recycling in their exhibition RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet. Mainly focused on the modern architecture of recycling, the exhibit will feature over 80 works of several artists working in various mediums. In addition to including architectural models and drawings, the exhibit will also feature music, film projections, and photography, including the work of Aperture-published photographer Pieter Hugo. Images from Hugo’s series Permanent Error—which focuses on Agbogbloshie, a large landfill for technological waste in Ghana—will be on display. Hugo’s series Looking Aside was featured in Aperture issue 186.

Yakubu Al Hasan, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana, 2009. © Pieter Hugo

Permanent Error

Exhibition on view:
September 8–October 29, 2011

Yossi Milo Gallery:
525 West 25th Street
New York, NY
(212) 414-0370

Pieter Hugo’s color photographs will be on display at Yossi Milo Gallery’s new exhibit Permanent Error. The exhibit focuses on Agbogbloshie, a large landfill for technological waste in Ghana, and the citizens who work on and live near the dump site. Throughout his career, Hugo’s photography has focused on capturing the people, culture, and landscape of Africa. Born in Johannesburg, he currently lives and works in Capetown. Hugo’s work was featured in Aperture magazine issue 186 and in the book reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today.

Copyright Pieter Hugo

Portraits by Pieter Hugo were featured in Aperture Issue # 186, and now you can see his new series, Nollywood, at Yossi Milo Gallery. The photographs recreate scenes and characters from the Nigerian film industry, one of the three largest in the world.

Closing reception with artist:
Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:00-8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
February 25-April 10, 2010

Yossi Milo Gallery:
525 W. 25th St.
New York, NY

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007 © Pieter Hugo;
Hans William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, K.G., 1698-1699 © Hyacinthe Rigaud

Exhibition on view:
The Endless Renaissance
Friday, April 17–Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida
(305) 673-7530

In Endless Renaissance, The Bass Museum of Art brings together a collection of historical and contemporary art to create a dialogue between the past and the present. It has been argued that when an artist integrates aspects of earlier work in their own, they change the way we look at the quoted artwork. For example, when you look at Michelangelo’s Mona Lisa, it is hard not to see Marcel Duchamp’s subversion of the painting with a mustache and goatee.

In Endless Renaissance, works by 17th, 18th, and 19th century masters such as Delacroix, Goya, and Rigaud are juxtaposed with the work of contemporary artists such as Gregory Crewdson, Pieter Hugo, and Sol Lewitt, all featured in recent issues of Aperture magazine. The idea is to highlight that all art, regardless of when it was created, is contemporary and reflects subjects which affected the artist at that specific point of time.

South African photographer Pieter Hugo, who was featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Aperture magazine, received The Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award for his series “The Hyena and Other Men” and “Wild Honey Collectors” on July 12th. The award, which was given to Hugo at the closing ceremony of the opening week of the notable photography festival, goes to an artist whose work has recently acquired international recognition. Elisabeth Biondi, one of five judges invited by guest curator Christian Lacroix, nominated Hugo.

The other nominees include: Debbie Fleming Caffery, Danilo Giuliani, Jamie Isaia, Ethan Levitas, Leila Mendez, Daniel Riera, Marla Rutherford, Martina Sauter, Jerry Schatzberg, Stefanie Schneider, Nigel Shafron, Cameron Smith, Angela Strassheim, and David Urbano.

Hugo’s work will be on display in Arles until September 14^th.