In June 2011 Karen Knorr is installing 6 images from Fables taken at the Villa Savoye in 2006 and completed in 2007. These images have been mounted on aluminium and diasec propped on aluminium supports on different shelf and floor surfaces echoing the modernist aesthetic which pervades Corbusier’s iconic house built in 1931 for Emilie and Pierre Savoye. The exhibition of installed work will remain in situ un til September15, 2011.
Karen Knorr ( Born in Frankfurt,Germany)American(Puerto Rico) British resident, has been awarded the fifth International Photography Prize of Photography Pilar Citoler. The prize includes an award of 15,000 Euros, a monographic publication and an exhibition in 2012 . The work “ Flight to Freedom” was supported by the jury which included he photographer Jose Manuel Ballester, the curators Afonso de la Torre and Jaime Brihuega, the gallerist Pilar Serra, the director of Madrid Foto, Giuletta Speranza and Juan del Junco , the previous prize winner.
The photograph “ Flight to Freedom” was presented in the Press Room of the Rectorate of the University of Cordoba in presence of the rector Jose Manuel Rolda Nogueras, the collector Pilar Citoler, the president of the bank Caja Rural, Manuel Enriquez Garcia, the deputy of culture, Jose Mariscal; the deputy mayor of the environment of the Cordoba , Francisco Javier Cobos Rojas; and the director of the Rabanales XXI Project Rocio Munoz Benito.
The Fifth edition of the prize which was launched at Paris Photo included 172 photographic works. In the past 10 photographers were selected from which the winner is chosen. On this occasion because of the high standard of work submitted a secret ballot was taken and the jury decision was unanimous .The winning work by Karen Knorr was realized in 2010 using digital photography printed on Hannemuhle Fine art archival paper and measures 122 X 152 cms / 48 “ X 60 “. The jury valued the trajectory of the artist and remarked that this was photography “ capable of referring to an exoticism devoid of frivolity,creating a singular reading that inscribes itself totally in modernity.” It was noted that the work “rescues poetry from the chromatic semitones of symbolism , giving the work a convincing spatial vigor “ The work also incribes itself in a series India Song, produced in India which is “ rich and coherent”
In January 2010 second year students from Documentary Photography, along with a small group of students from our partner institution, The Royal Academy in Holland, participated in ‘Network Week U.K’.
‘Network Week U.K’ is a weeklong series of visits to many of the UK’s leading photographers and photographic institutions. This is a great opportunity for the students to have first hand experience of some of the work methods and business practices of these eminent individuals and institutions. This is an annual event, which was preceded by our students participating in a series of similar visits to eminent Dutch practitioners in Holland. The UK visits included visits to the following people:
Anna Fox, Martin Parr, Nigel Shafran, Magnum, Karren Knorr, Brian Griffin, Mark Power, Clare Strand, Photoworks, Simon Norfolk, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Photographers Gallery, Simon Roberts, Boot Books, Smith Design, Val Williams, Am Nuden Da, Broomberg and Chanarin, Stuart Griffiths, Foto 8, Wyatt Clarke Jones, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Adam Hinton, Tom Hunter, Melanie Friend, David Moore, Marco Santucci, Andrew Buurman and Ed Clarke.
Karen Knorr – Network Week 2010 from Newport School Art Media Design.
This coming spring 2010, the Carnavalet museum will be inhabited by a strange fauna. Fox, tortoise, hare and stork pose for Karen Knorr’s lens in the XVIII century period rooms of the museum, bringing to life the fables of Aesop and La Fontaine.
The museum pays homage to American/British photographer Karen Knorr, of international renown, who will present 15 photographs throughout the period rooms.
Some of the photographs will be placed in the rooms where they were taken in 2003/2004 and others will be exhibited in the gallery on the first floor of the museum. Additional photographs taken in the Conde Museum at Chantilly and the rooms of the Museum of Hunt and Nature will augment the selection. For this occasion Deyrolle will be lending taxidermised animals from their collection. These animals will be placed throughout the first floor, adding a touch of bucolic lyricism to the museum rooms.
In Karen Knorr’s work, animals roam among the furniture and artworks of the ‘cultural sanctuaries’ which exist to elevate culture from desecration by animal nature. This transgression conjures up the marvelous universe of Lewis Caroll and Angela Carter. The unsettling aspect of these photographs resides in the construction of the images mixing analogue with digital photography. It is this ambiguity between the different discordant realities and spatial registers that troubles the observer’s gaze.
Karen Knorr’s bestiary invites the visitor to rediscover one of the most beautiful museums and hotel particuliers in the Marais neighborhood of Paris.
Opens Tues 9 February 4pm to 9pm
Exhibition continues to 30 May 2010
FAVOLE
Contemporary Photography Museum, Milan
15 May 2010 – 12 Sept 2010
INDIA SONG
Photo & Co, Turin, Italy
24 Sept – 30 Oct 2010
ACADEMIES
Sphinx Fine Art, London
6 Oct – 20 Nov 2010
FABLES
Centre Photographique, Toulon, France
25 Oct 2010 – 15 Jan 2011
INDIA SONG
Tasveer Arts, Bangalore, India
8 Oct – 30 Oct 2010
Gallery Art Motif, Delhi
21 Jan 2011 – 2 Feb 2011
Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Kolkatta
11 Mar 2011 – 21 Mar 2011
Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai
22 Apr 2011 – 2 May 2011
National Institute of Art and Design (NID), Ahmadabad
17 Jun 2011 - 27 Jun 2011
Venues:
Milan:
Museo Fotografia Contemporanea
London:
Sphinx Fine Art
125 Kensington Church Street
London W8 7LP
http://www.sphinxfineart.com/SPHINX-FINE-ART-Exhibition-List-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=46&lg=en
Toulon:
Musee des Beaux Arts, Maison de la Photographie
113 Boulevard Mar Leclerc
83000 Toulon, France
Bangalore:
Tasveer Arts
Sua House
26/1 Kasturba Cross Road
Bangalore 560001,
www.tasveerarts.com
New Delhi:
Gallery Art Motif
213 C Lado Sarai New Delhi-110030.
http://www.galleryartmotif.com/
Kolkatta:
Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre
36C S. P. Mukherjee Road
Kolkata 700 025, India.
Mumbai:
Institute of Contemporary Indian Art
CIA Building, 22/26, K. Dubhash Marg
Rampart Row
Next to Rampart House
Kala Ghoda
Mumbai – 400 023
Ahmadebad:
National Institute of Design
Design Gallery,National Institute of Design
Paldi, Ahmadebad 38007
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Celebrity Cruises and International Corporate Art are pleased to announce the delivery of Equinox, the second in the new Solstice class of ships. Characterized by comfortable, sophisticated design, intelligent and thoughtful programming as well as upscale amenities with impeccable service, the 315m Celebrity Equinox represents beautiful surroundings highlighted by an important art collection.
International Corporate Art (ICArt), an art consultancy firm based in Miami, London and Oslo, maintains the tradition in developing the artistic direction or red thread for the Celebrity Art Collection on the Solstice-class ships.
Comprised of selected artworks from the Celebrity Art Collection on Galaxy, as well as new acquisitions from a combination of internationally established, mid-career and emerging artists, the Celebrity Art Collection on Equinox offers a scope of work that represents some of the most iconic artists in the world. Serving as a point of departure for Equinox, the Galaxy artwork includes renowned artists Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell , Karen Knorr and Jack Pierson, among others. Adding to this exclusive roster of artists, the Collection on Equinox includes new works by Anselm Reyle, Sandra Cinto, Johan Creten, Damien Hirst and Erwin Wurm, in renowned Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo.
This unique and important art collection consists of work by 97 artists from 25 countries. It is the result of over two years of curating, creative planning, purchasing, production and installation. No other cruise line in the world invests as much to create a truly beautiful environment for their guests through art.
Karen Knorr became well known for photographic series delving into the relationship of Western man with his society, culture and heritage.
Currently, her work is a reflection on the relationship between the individual and his natural environment, always through a studied set design and a spectacular mise en scène. In her series, she has developed the theme of the museum as a space representing the past, using atmospheres loaded with memories.
Her works were gathered together in the book Genii Loci (Black Dog, 2002) and since 1977 can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Commissioner: Rosa Olivares, art critic, theorist and editor of EXIT magazine. Karen Knorr is among five other artists invited to consider the archives and the museum collection of the Lázaro Galdiano museum in Madrid to produce new work for a publication celebrating the centennial of the museum and its collections.