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BPM 2020/1: All Time is All Time – Ivan Blazhev

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Drezden ima dugu istoriju prestonice i kraljevske rezidencije. Na samom kraju Drugog svetskog rata, u istorijski posmatrano kontroverznom savezničkom bombardovanju, grad je devastiran, kao i istorijski gradski centar. Nakon rata, grad je rekonstruisan i vraćen mu je prvobitni izgled.

Moj rad inspirisan je Vonegatovim romanom o bombardovanju Drezdena, Klanica 5, temom nelinearnosti vremena, kao i osetljivošću sećanja. Odrazi ovih tema se vide u istoriji Drezdena, u stvaranju identične replike grada kakav je bio pre, tako da je iz današnje perspektive nejasna linija između starog i novog, prošlog i sadašnjeg, sećanja i sadašnjosti. Fotografišući grad digitalnom pinhol kamerom, stvorio sam paralelu problematizujući samog medijuma i njegovu autentičnost, direktno se oslanjajući na paradoksalnost novog starog, a tako namerno pocrtavajući kompleksnost urbane i arhitektonske istorije grada, potpuno uništenog, pa rekonstruisanog.

Umesto čistog prikaza sadašnjosti, fotografije prikazuju i pukotinu prošlosti, ostatke uništenog poput živog svedoka bombardovanja. Fotografije zato mogu biti posmatrane kao uspomene, ali i kao fakti. Namera mi je bila da stvorim fotografije koje prikazuju prošlost u sadašnjosti, poput traga paralele vremena i simultanosti događaja.

Svaki trenutak, prošli, sadašnji i budući, uvek je postojao i uvek će postojati…
Iluzija je to što mi na Zemlji mislimo da jedan trenutak prati sledeći, poput
nanizanih perli, i kada nestane, nestao je zauvek.
Kurt Vonegat, Klanica pet

https://ivanblazhev.com/

Izložba će trajati do 3. juna 2021.

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BPM 2020/1: All Time is All Time – Ivan Blazhev

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Dresden has had a long history as a capital and royal residence. At the end of WWII, in what history considers controversial bombing by the Allies, the city was devastated and the whole historic city center destroyed. After the war, it was reconstructed and restored to its original state.

My work is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s book about the Dresden bombing, Slaughterhouse Five, and it’s themes about broken, non-linear time and fragility of memory. I see reflection of these themes in Dresden’s history of being rebuilt as an exact replica of what it used to be, thus from today’s perspective blurring the line of old and new, past and present, memory and the present. Using a digital pinhole camera to photograph the city, I create a parallel; problematising the medium itself and its authenticity, and directly revealing the paradoxicality of the new as old, thus purposefully emphasising the complex urban and architectural history of the city, completely destroyed, then reconstructed.

Instead of just showing the present, these photographs open a fissure to the past, the remains of a destroyed space, as living witnesses of the bombing. The photographs can be seen as memories and/or facts. I try to create photographs which capture the past in the present, as clues of parallel times and simultaneous events.

All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…
It is just an illusion we have here on earth that one moment follows another
one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

https://ivanblazhev.com/

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

BPM 2020/1: Antre/Antechamber/Antecâmara – Inês d´Orey

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Kustos Ana Matos

Ogledalo u ogledalu (Spiegel im Spiegel) Arva Perta, kompozicija za dva instrumenta koja objedinjuje jednostavnost, nevinost i čistotu, proistekla je 1978. iz njegovog klavira i violine. Reminiscencija na uspon između violinskog sola i tri klavirska tona postaje anđeo čuvar kompozicije. Kako Pert sam kaže povratak nakon puta. Postoje slike koje nas vraćaju muzici, poetici uzvišenog, univerzalnoj i večitoj umetnosti, jer dotiču ono najintimnije i najskrivenije. Antre Ines d’Orej vodi do neopisivog sveta, gde je priroda reči i simbola drugačija. Iskazuje prazninu pri čekanju, traganje za anđelom, poput Pertovog klavira, koji, kao i ogledalo, može odvesti negde gde se čeka van vremena i prostora. Povremeno ili indirektno ljudsko prisustvo preuzima ulogu protagoniste ovih fotografija, dok je posmatrač pozvan da luta kroz narative kompozicija izabranih radova iz različitih serija, gde se mogu iz daljine čuti stihovi Vinisiusa de Moraesa:

Oh, želeo bih nikad čuti
koje kaže da će život uvek ovakav biti
kraj je čekanju
na proleće čuću
da neko me doziva.

Ova izložba realizovana je uz veliku podršku Camões i I.P.

Izložba će trajati do 3. juna 2021.

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BPM 2020/1: Antre/Antechamber/Antecâmara – Inês d´Orey

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Curated by Ana Matos

Arvo Pärt’s violin and piano spawned, in 1978, Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror), a melody for two instruments that gathers together simplicity, innocence and purity. It resembles an ascent, the coming together of the violin solo and the three piano notes; the composition becomes the sound of a guardian angel. In Pärt’s own words, he described the piece as returning home after being away. There are some images that bring us back to music, to the poetics of that supreme, universal and eternal art, because they touch us in our most intimate and hidden self. Inês d´Orey’s Antecâmara (Antechamber) takes us to that unspeakable world, where lexicon and symbols are of a different nature. They express the emptiness we feel in waiting, the search for our own angel like Pärt’s piano that, also as a mirror, can take us elsewhere, waiting in a suspended time and space. Occasionally the human presence indirectly becomes protagonist in these photos, the viewer is invited to wander through these narratives that are the composition of selected works from a number of different series by the artist, and where one can hear, at a distance, the lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes:

Oh I wish I could hear a nevermore
Saying life will be forever this way
The waiting is over
And in the spring I’ll hear
Someone calling out for me.

Ana Matos

This exhibition has been organised through the essential support of Camões, I.P that supports artist mobility, by which Portuguese artist Ines d’Orey is able to participate in Belgrade Photo Month Festival.

http://www.inesdorey.com/
http://salgadeiras.outsystemscloud.com/SiteSol/

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

BPM 2020/1: Made of Photos #2

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Oktobar 1878, gospodski klub, slabo osvetljena prostorija puna duvanskog dima, uzavrela diskusija se završava opkladom… Kada konji galopiraju…da li su sve četiri kopite u vazduhu?
Liland Stenford, američki industrijalac i političar koji se bavio i konjima, pa i konjičkim trkama, želeo je dokazati ovu teoriju, pa je angažovao britanskog fotografa Edvarda Majbridža da napravi dvanaest fotografija konja u punom galopu, savršenom nizu pokreta konjskog tela. Liland Stenford osvojio je opkladu pošto je fotografija pokazala da su sve četiri kopite u vazduhu.
Ova ekstravagantna opklada sama po sebi nije donela značajne novine za nauku, umetnost ili zabavu, ali fotografije proistekle iz opklade na neki način su oslikavale ono što se spremalo sa druge strane okeana, u Evropi. U to vreme Etjen Žil Mari u Francuskoj i Otomar Anšic u Nemačkoj radili su na sličnim idejama, pa se godinu dana kasnije pojavio zoogiroskop, uređaj za prikazivanje pokretnih slika.
Danas su mogućnosti gotovo neograničene kad je reč o obradi slike, kako fotografija tako i pokretnih slika, a nauka i tehnologija se stalno razvijaju pa se više ne može ni zamisliti šta sve može biti u budućnosti. U jedno se ipak možemo pouzdati, a to je da će umetnici prigrliti sve mogućnosti i zahtevati nove.

Drugi serijal predstavlja sledeće autore:
Grebo Gray – Michael J Sheehy, Judas Hour (Srbija/Serbia+UK)
Hélène Veilleux – Lava Tubes (Francuska/France)
Ivan Blazhev – All Time is all Time (Severna Makedonija/North Macedonia)
Jakub Wawrzak – Oasis (Poljska/Poland)
Miloš Nešić – Sateran u ćošak (Srbija/Serbia)
Momen Khaled Malkawi – 7 Mountains in Search of Home (Jordan)
Sylvain Granjon – Blakol (Francuska/France)

Izložba će trajati do 3. juna 2021.

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BPM 2020/1: Made of Photos #2

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

October 1878, we can imagine a gentlemen’s club, a dimly lit room full of cigar and pipe smoke, a heated discussion can be heard that ends in a bet… when a horse is galloping… are the four hooves off the ground?

Leland Stanford, an American industrialist, and politician who also had an interest in breeding and racing horses, wanted to provide evidence of this theory and enlisted British photographer Eadweard Muybridge to shoot 12 photos of a horse in full gallop, a perfect sequence of the movement of the horse body. Leland Stanford won the bet as the photos showed that all four hooves were off the ground.

This extravagant bet in itself didn’t change the story of science, art or entertainment, but the resulting photos of that bet somehow mirrored what was also starting on the other side of the ocean in Europe. At this time Étienne-Jules Marey in France and Ottomar Anschütz in Germany were working on similar ideas and one year later the zoogyroscope appeared, an instrument for displaying moving pictures.

Nowadays, the possibilities are almost unlimited with what we can do with photos and moving images and who knows what technology will be available in the future. One thing we can be sure of is that artists will be squeezing all the possibilities out of it and demanding new ones.

Made of Photos #2 is comprised of a series of works in which photographers have experimented with the video format in order to present their photography work.

The second series includes projects by:
Grebo Gray – Michael J Sheehy, Judas Hour (Srbija/Serbia+UK)
Hélène Veilleux – Lava Tubes (Francuska/France)
Ivan Blazhev – All Time is all Time (Severna Makedonija/North Macedonia)
Jakub Wawrzak – Oasis (Poljska/Poland)
Miloš Nešić – Sateran u ćošak (Srbija/Serbia)
Momen Khaled Malkawi – 7 Mountains in Search of Home (Jordan)
Sylvain Granjon – Blakol (Francuska/France)

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

BPM 2020/1: Bucket List – Stephanie Pistel

8. maj u 19 časova
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Beograd

Sergej je zauzimao visoko mesto na mojoj listi prioriteta. Veoma dugo…
Delovao je kao jedan od najfascinantnijih i najtalentovanijih ljudi.
Trebalo mi je oko godinu dana da doprem do njega i uradim intervju i specijal za renomirani Schön! Magazine.
Foto-snimanje je trebalo da bude u Parizu, ali je pomereno u London, a zatim ponovo u Pariz, da bi se na kraju sve odigralo u LA-u!
Njegov se raspored svakodnevno menjao…
Iznenada se pojavio na zapanjujućoj pustinjskoj lokaciji oko 10 ujutru
9. januara.
Druželjubiv, stidljiv, skroman ali ujedno i zanosan.
Nije bilo moguće napraviti lošu Sergejevu fotografiju. Toliko lica, toliko emocija…
U jednom momentu jako napet i introvertan, pa prelepo odsutan u sledećem…
Proveli smo predivan dan iz kojeg je proizašlo mnogo fantastičnih fotografija.
Tada je počeo naš fotografski put. Od tog trenutka počela su naša foto-snimanja širom sveta.
I, prijatelju, nastaviće se.

https://www.studiostephaniepistel.com/

Izložba će trajati do 3. juna 2021.

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BPM 2020/1: Bucket List – Stephanie Pistel

May 8, 7 pm
Bioskop Balkan
Braće Jugovića 16, Belgrade

Sergei was VERY, VERY high up on my bucket list. For a long time…
He just seemed to be one of the most fascinating and talented people out there.
It took me over a year to ‘get’ him for an interview and high fashion special for the renowned Schön! Magazine.
We were supposed to shoot in Paris, which changed to London, then back to Paris and it finally got confirmed to take place in LA!
His agenda changed by the day…
In a stunning desert location, at 10 a.m. on January 9th, there he suddenly was.
He was friendly, shy and humble – but unbelievably captivating at the same time.
It was impossible to take a bad picture of Sergei. He had so many faces, so many emotions to share.
Highly intense in one second, introvert and beautifully absent in the next.
We had an amazing day with far too many fabulous images to choose from.
This is when our photographic journey started. Since then we’ve shot together in many places around the globe.
To be continued, my friend.

https://www.studiostephaniepistel.com/

The exhibition will run until 3rd June, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h

BPM 2020/1: Cruising for a Bruising – Dušan Kochol

8. maj u 18 časova
Kuća Legata / Heritage House
Knez Mihailova 46, Beograd

Brate, nekad te prebiju jer si jednostavno to i tražio. Bol usled kastracije oduzima ti naboj testosterona, a ožiljke ponosno nosiš kao odlikovanja falične legije. Nadahnut obožavanjem svega toga što možeš pružiti, ti, heroju moj, maltretiraš samog sebe do izbezumljenja, do kastracionog pomračenja. Kolekcija crnih i plavih mapa raste i jedini put koji treba da pokazuju je onaj od kože do naše ružne strane. Čoveče, oslobodi se egoističke jeze, oslobađajući put ka bolu da bi ožiljke naslikao ponovo.
www.dusankochol.com

Uz podršku ambasade Slovačke u Srbiji

Izložba će trajati do 22. maja 2021.

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BPM 2020/1: Cruising for a Bruising – Dušan Kochol

May 8, 6 pm
Kuća Legata / Heritage House
Knez Mihailova 46, Belgrade

Brother, sometimes you get beaten up because you simply ask for it. Getting a testosterone thrill out of the emasculating pain and then wearing your marks proudly as war medals of phallic legion. Fed on the adoration all that you, my hero, can deliver is to bully yourself to unconsciousness, as the castrating eclipse occurs. The collection of black and blue maps is growing but the only road they show leads through your skin to the ugly side. Man up, shake off your ego erected goose bumps to make way for the pain to paint those bruises all over again.
www.dusankochol.com

With the support by the Embassy of Slovakia in Serbia

The exhibition will run until 22nd May, 2021

IMPORTANT:
Please note that due to the Covid-19 situation nobody can enter the Gallery without wearing a mask as required by the Rep of Serbia regulations.

Visiting hours:
Tue – Fri / 14 – 19h
Sat – Sun / 12 – 15h