Thursday 20.06.2013
4:08 am
Image: Semites: A Wall Under Construction, 2005 - 2011, 135 Ilfochrome prints on Diasec, from Polaroid 600, each print 41" x 41"
USA - Houston - FotoFest 2012 - Charif Benhelima
Artifactual Realities is a FotoFest 2012 exhibition of eleven artists. The exhibition consists of three photographers who are engaged in presenting realistic portraits and images from the Occupy movement and eight artists who create non-traditional or simply unusual artworks utilizing photography. As such, the exhibition as a whole mirrors the community spirit, diversity, and horizontal orientation underlying the Occupy movement.
The artists in this exhibition have developed an aesthetic approach that is consistent with their particular social, political, and spiritual interests. Each one deals with issues that are critical to themselves, to their intellectual milieu, and to their own brand of realism and idealism. From this standpoint one can safely predict an end to the twentieth-century era of a succession of styles. Like the computers they use to enhance or change their subject matter, or even brighten the content of their art, contemporary artists use a multi-faceted range of informational extensions, implying a horizontal approach to the creative process. Another aspect of twenty-first-century art is the use by artists of critical thinking combined with emotional references that together are beginning to shape the art of the new century.
Artists: August Bradley, Vanessa Bahmani, Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr, Charif Benhelima, Mel Chin, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Ann Harithas, Nazar Yahya , Linarejos Moreno, Ernesto Leon, Joe Cardella
Artifactual Realities - FotoFest 2012
17 March - 15 July 2012
More information: www.stationmuseum.com - www.benhelima.com
