| | | |  | | | GIDEON MENDEL
THE HOME OF JOHN JACKSON, 2007
chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive | | | | | 12th Edition MIA Fair 2023 | | | | ARTCO Gallery @ MILAN IMAGE FAIR Booth C010 | | | | | | | Wednesday March 22nd - Sunday 26th 2023 | | | Wed 22nd: Preview (on invitation) | Thur, 23rd: 12:00 – 21:00
Fri 24th: 12:00 – 21:00 | Sat 25th: 11:00 – 20:00 | Sun 26th: 11:00 – 20:00 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | Starting from the 23rd March, ARTCO exhibit Johanna-Maria Fritz’s work alongside the photographs of Gideon Mendel, recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers and awarded for his longterm advocacy project DROWNING WORLD. As a third artistic position, Arne Grugel’s carefully assorted multi exposure photography creates a link to Milan’s heritage in art and design. | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ
PORTRAIT OF ATIFA, 2021
Fine Art Print on Photo Rag Baryta | | | | | | Johanna-Maria Fritz has been traveling the world as a photographer for the last ten years. The Berlin-based artist finds her motifs in crises, conflicts, collapsing states, persecuted minorities, and at the margins of society. „There, I see people who are absorbed by their own problems and have never learned to pose according to our standards“, she explains.
During her visual research on female carpet weavers in Afghanistan, Fritz has had portraits of Taliban men woven into rugs. Made by the same girls whom the Islamists had forbidden to learn, thus to hope. Iconic artworks that illustrate the inhumanity of the current regime. In the fair, these recent works from Afghanistan are juxtaposed with her long-term art project LIKE A BIRD - a documentary of circus performers in Muslim-majority countries. Motifs that resemble dreamy landscapes full of contrasts, intimate despite their sometimes precarious situations. | | | | | |  | | | JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ
SUMAYA AND ATIFA SHOWING A HIDDEN THREAD, 2021
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FLORENCE ABRAHAM, 2012
Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive | | | | | | Recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers, Mendel’s intimate style of image-making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid. It was this work as a “struggle photographer” that first brought his work to global attention. Mendel’s earliest work from South Africa was highlighted in the Rise and Fall of Apartheid touring exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Since 2007, Mendel has been working on Drowning World, his long-term art and advocacy project about flooding that is a personal response to climate change. Solo shows of Drowning World have been shown at many galleries and public installations around the word, including ‘Les Recontres de la Photographie’ in Arles.
In 2021, the photographer and climate activist Gideon Mendel has been affected by climate change himself. Stored inside the ARTCO storage in West Germany, his works were severely affected by a devastating flooding. These unique pieces have thus become an artistic evidence of urgent planetary catastrophes. | | | | | |  | | | GIDEON MENDEL
DORCA EXECUTIVE APARTMENTS (STUDENT ACCOMMODATION), 2022
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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | ARNE GRUGEL
BODY IN SPACE, 2023
Fine Art Print on Canson | | | | | | Arne Grugel's art is an interplay between shape, color and arrangement. Shot all analogue in multiple carefully assorted exposures, the figures he is creating leave a unique impression of planet-like bodies. Suspended in space, they slowly pulsate and radiate as they float along quietly. Their energy is released through light and color - pulling in the observer's focus while darker elements seem to be dense and impenetrable. Just like our universe, these bodies are an invitation to find equipoise between energy and gravity.
So when meditating and channelling light is his inspiration, the analogue production process is exactly about that. As a much slower medium than digital photography, it requires a high degree of accuracy. It works in real-time and is the ideal tempo for capturing the subtext of each shot - materialized in every individual print. | | | | | |  | | | ARNE GRUGEL
164,8 YEARS OF PATIENCE, 2022
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