Winter - Spring Newsletter 2009-2010

Ellen von Unwerth Fräulein

Two Floor Show

22 October - 21 November

Fräulein was a show of Von Unwerth’s personal favourites and never previously seen images from the last 15 years. Including some of the worlds most alluring women- Carla Bruni, Raquel Welsh, Kate Moss and Megan Fox, the show was a huge success, with the large Heidi, Kitzbühel – a trademark sexy and playful Ellen image - selling out completely.

The exhibition took place in collaboration with TASCHEN, who published a major limited edition monograph of Ellen von Unwerth’s work, also entitled Fräulein. The book became available in November.

Pavillion of Art & Design, 

Berkeley Square, London

14 -18 October 

PAD London, the sister fair to the Pavilion of Art & Design, Paris is now in its third year. The event this October was a first for Michael Hoppen Gallery, and we joined European design, furniture and jewellery dealers at what was considered a high point of Frieze week. Vintage Man Ray pieces were snapped up as was a selection of contemporary Japanese photographic prints by masters Kishin Shinoyama and Toshio Shibata.

Paris Photo, 

Carrousel du Louvres 

19 – 22 November 

Paris Photo is always a winter highlight. A well as wonderful Robert Doisneaus’ and  Neil Libbert vintage prints, we took a selection of contemporary artists new to the gallery, all of whom attracted much attention. Sohei Nishino’s Diorama Maps proved a hit, particularly the Paris version of course, and Daniele Tamagni’s Sapeurs, Nikolay Bakharevs ‘People of Town N’ series and abstract work by young Korean artist Dong Yoon Kim all did well. The mood was more upbeat than last year, boding well for the art market as we approach 2010.

‘It’s a crime to take photographs this good…’ Weegee the famous and selected artists

Michael Hoppen Gallery

25 November - 9 January 2010

Always in the right place at the right time, Weegee’s lense was perpetually aimed the visceral and sometimes violent city of New York. In 1993, Wilma Fellig Weegee’s widow, bequeathed his entire archive of original prints to the ICP in New York, and we are delighted offer selected pieces of this unique photographers work which includes many images never previously seen in the UK.

With works by Stan Healy and Sergei Vasiliev, also featuring an incredible almanac- the diary of an inspecteur of the Súrete collated during his years on the force, the exhibition is designed to shock, amuse and inform!

We are also delighted to collaborate again with Eminent Wines.

Colour 

Michael Hoppen Contemporary

25 November-9 January 2010

 Since 1861 and the first permanent colour print by James Clerk Maxwell, photographers have been able to define their subjects in a more immediate and creative way using colour- stripping it out, intensifying or limiting it.  The Michael Hoppen Contemporary December exhibit showcases a group of artists who utilize cyan, magenta, yellow and black in ways that make us hyper- aware of the playful, scientific, accidental or surprising possibilities of colour.

Fernand Fonssagrives

Michael Hoppen Gallery

14 January-20 February 

The first show of 2010 will be an exhibition of work by one of America’s foremost fashion photographers; Fernand Fonssagrives. 

Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was linked to the early ‘Design Laboratory’ classes of Alexey Brodovitch, and was a key member of the close knit group of photographers now celebrated as ‘The New York School.

His most memorable work traces the unique partnership he had with his first wife, legendary model Lisa Fonssagrives, a former dancer who went on to marry Irving Penn. This exhibition of little –seen prints pay tribute to a talent not often shown to the public.

Kishin Shinoyama Nude

Michael Hoppen Contemporary

14 January-20 February 

Still hard at work well into his late 70s, Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s images have lost none of the potency that would make his 1960s nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to announce the first exhibition of his work in the UK, which will focus on his most iconic series which showed the beginnings of the psychedelic and daring nature of his vision with that sense of nostalgia linked with the future that is so evocative of the late 1960s.

Yoshihiko Ueda

Michael Hoppen Contemporary

March 

Yoshihiko Ueda’s work is varied and prolific. He was born into a Hyogo farming family in Japan and attended a college for photography in Osaka. He 

became much in demand as a fashion photographer, and went on to produce portraits, nudes and landscapes. Working in advertising, Ueda built up a steady client portfolio and was soon able to photograph his own interests much more freely. 

He is known for his sensitivity and attention to detail as well as the severity and the potency of his work. The Quinault series, which we will be showing in March, was created in an ancient wood in Washington state, Western USA. The series was developed when Ueda was searching for wooded locations in which to shoot people, but was overcome by the impossible phosphorescent green of the moss created by the permanently misty and wet macro climate of this almost preserved forest. The dark, ancient trees and primeval draw of the deep forest led Ueda, as an artist, to respond in a spiritual way to what was

before his lens. Whether it be a body or a landscape- and the work Ueda’s work emanates with this intensity. 

Tefaf Maastricht

12^th -21^st March 

WE are delighted to be attending Tefaf Maastricht  in 2010. Taking with us photographs that occupy the space where art and science conjoin, we look forward to our first appearance at this seminal art and antique fair. 

** Scarlett Hooft Graafland was one of several artists who took part in the very successful Inishturkbeg artist week in September. The work created  during week on the island (just off the west cost of Ireland) will be shwn at Flowers Central in February 2010**