JPC has arranged for its members a unique opportunity to participate in the opening in Tel Aviv Museum of the exhibition THIS PLACE: An Unprecedented Look at Israel and the West Bank through the Eyes of 12 Renowned Artists.
The exhibition is featuring works from internationally acclaimed photographers Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington and Frederic Brenner.
The photographers participating in the exhibition represent the most acclaimed group of artists ever to turn their attention to Israel. Each photographer spent approximately six months in residence in Israel, pursuing his or her own artistic interests, and through these residencies – which stretched over four years (2009 to 2012) – thousands of original artworks were created.
Frederic Brenner has contributed one of his photographs, taken in the course of THIS PLACE, Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael, 2012, to JPC, and it is hanging in JPC’s VIP room.
About THIS PLACE:
The photographers participating in the represent the most acclaimed group of artists ever to turn their attention to Israel. Each photographer spent approximately six months in residence in Israel, pursuing his or her own artistic interests, and through these residencies – which stretched over four years (2009 to 2012) – thousands of original artworks were created.
The result is a major museum show, which opens May 14 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as the publication of monographs by each artist and a comprehensive catalog. Following Tel Aviv, the exhibition will travel to the United States, where it will show at the Norton Museum of Art and close at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in February 2016.
The show is curated by Charlotte Cotton, an internationally acclaimed curator and the former head of the photography department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
“By its very nature, This Place is a multifaceted project. It provides entry points and participation in the ongoing cultural discussion about photographic representation of politically and philosophically contested spaces,” said Charlotte Cotton. “This Place embodies the idea of photography as itself a multifaceted notion – these incredible bodies of photographic work will be the prompt for discussions, the visual vehicles for sharing ideas and knowledge, as well as the material experience of the personal journeys undertaken by the commissioned artists.”
“I believe that only through the eyes of great artists can we begin to understand the complexities of Israel – its history, its geography, its daily life – and the resonance it has for people around the world,” said Frederic Brenner, who conceptualized and launched the project. “The images included in This Place combine to create not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait, alive with all the rifts and paradoxes of this important and highly contested place.”
“As a survey project, This Place is essentially unprecedented,” said Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art.“While the Mission Heliographique (1851) featured French photographers carefully studying France and its architectural patrimony, and during the New Deal, the Farm Security Administration selected American artists to photograph America during the Great Depression (1930s), this effort is about overcoming the agenda of the place.”
