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Written by László Gergely
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13 07 2010 |
(Photo: Oliver Sieber)
BOOK LAUNCH
Friday, July 16th, 7 p.m.
Lumen Galéria, 1088 Budapest, Mikszáth Kálmán tér 2.
Guests: Mark McPherson, Katja Melzer, Katrina Schwarz
Hijacked Volume 2: Australia / Germany
Editors: McPherson, Ute Noll, Markus Schaden
Texts: Alasdair Foster, Bec Dean, Bill Kouwenhoven, Daniel Palmer, Katja Melzer, Katrina Schwarz, Uta Daur
“Our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos.”
– Werner Herzog
Hijacked 2 presents a diverse and provocative selection of new photography from Australia and Germany. The exhibition erases traditional boundaries between artists, professionals and emerging talent and points towards the future of contemporary photography.
Hijacked 2 is a comprehensive and expansive photographic compendium, and the first to delineate the important artistic and socio-cultural relationship that exists between Australia and Germany. Building on the considerable success of the inaugural publication, Hijacked 1 – Australia and America, Hijacked 2 showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of 32 contemporary German and Australian photographers With a focus on the depiction and representation of the young, the boundary riding and fringe dwelling, Hijacked is layered with imagery both evocative and confronting, dreamlike and rousing.
As a rare bilateral visual arts anthology, Hijacked compels us to consider two socially divergent and disparate photographic nations. Germany and Australia are juxtaposed to stimulate conversation, suggest connection and invite deconstruction – faming a unique space marked both by contemporary photographic practice and documentation, its traditional aims and its transforming technologies, and as such, offers an exceptional insight into an emerging and otherwise evasive zeitgeist.
Publisher and editor, Mark McPherson is a passionate curator with a highly contemporary approach and established international profile. He is currently collaborating with emerging and established artists, curators, writers and photographers for future Hijacked exhibitions. This unconventional project engages with alternative cultural and artistic networks of exchange and dialogue between contemporary Australian and international photographers.
Australian artists: Narelle Autio, James Brickwood, Micheal Corridore, Andrew Cowen, Tamara Dean, Suzie Fox, Lee Grant, Derek Henderson, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ingvar Kenne, Brónek Kozka, Georgia Metaxas, Conor O’ Brien, Polixeni Papapetrou, Louis Porter.
German artists: Johanna Ahlert, Natalie Bothur, Jörg Brüggeman, Thekla Ehling, Albrecht Fuchs, Jan von Holleben, Karsten Kronas, Anne Lass, Jens Liebchen, Myriam Lutz, Julian Röder, Josef Schulz, Oliver Sieber, Ivonne Thien, Olaf Unverzart, Sascha Weidner.
For more info:
www.bigcitypress.com.au
Hijacked Volume 2: Australia / Germany
Hardcover, 21,2 x 26,6 cm
412 pages, 288 colour and b/w images
English
ISBN 978-3-86828-126-2
50,00 Euro
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