Category: EXHIBITIONS

October 10, 2008 – November 9, 2008

 
On the occasion of Munich Highlights, Galerie Daniel Blau is presenting unique photographs by the artist Adam Fuss, who was born in Londonin 1961 and now lives in New York. The works have never been shown before. The art of Adam Fuss fetches record prices at auctions and he is represented at galleries of international renown, making him one of the top stars of the photography scene. We are particularly proud tohave the privilege of presenting these works to the public for the first time in Munich.

His early large-format series Proto Spirals focuses on circles and spirals. Foreground and background seem to dissolve as the individual circles superimpose, the separate forms coalescing and disengaging again, timeless but without appearing motionless. At the same time, they seem so light and filigree that they could break at any moment.

The direct positives are made by simple exposure in a dark room: a small, freely hanging lamp is set in motion, swinging like a pendulum on a string and directly drawing its path onto the photographic paper beneath. Gravity causes the concentric oscillations to become smaller and smaller, appearing as spirals after developing.

May 7, 2010 – June 25, 2010

 
Galerie Daniel Blau is very proud to present rare paintings from the 1960’s and 70’s by Berlin artist Christa Dichgans.

When Christa Dichgans made her first solo show at Berlin’s famous gallery Springer in 1972 she already completed two scholarships, one in New York (DAAD), the other in Villa Romana in Florence.

It is these paintings made in New York and Florence that our exhibition focuses on.

November 18, 2009 – November 22, 2009

Ricordi della Toscana (Galerie Meyer—Oceanic Art)

This year at Galerie Meyer, Daniel Blau Photography will be showing an outstanding album from 1852—1855, containing very early vintage prints of Florence and its surroundings. Some of the images in this exhibition will be on show for the first time.

A Space Panorama (Stand B 21, Paris Photo)

As a parallel exhibition at Paris Photo, we will be commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing with a selection ofrare and singular space photographs from 1964 to 1979.

Sparse, abstract landscapes, colourful planets and daring maneuvers will be shown on spectacular, large-format NASA photographs.

October 10, 2009 – November 13, 2009

September 11, 2009 – October 9, 2009

Daniel Blau Gallery is pleased to announce its second opening with young London arist Neal Fox, titled 2000 Light-Years from Home, on the 10th of September 2009.

A shining entity in London’s artistic and bohemian underground, Neal Fox uses his vivid imagination and masterly drawingskills to take the viewer on a phantastical journey of composite hyper-realities forged from beatnik tales, cock-and-bullmythology, occultic symbolism and drunken tales of debauchery.

After last year’s exhibition “The Invisible Republic”, which included some of his largest and most spectacular ink-drawings, Neal Fox has again outdone himself for the up-coming show which will feature his largest works to-date.

A ten-metre long ink-drawing forms the centre-piece of the exhibition and takes the viewer on a seemingly never-ending journey into the surreal world that surrounds Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

May 29, 2009 – July 31, 2009

Born 1964 in London, Quinn studied History and History of Art at Cambridge. By the time his sculpture Alison Lapper Pregnant could be seen at Trafalgar square, Marc Quinn had become renowned in the art world and his works taken had their place in important museums worldwide.

In our exhibition, Quinn will be presenting a series of unique bronze sculptures, the Carbon Cycle. The subjects of the series are self-portrait casts and skulls surrounded with various fruits and blossoms.

Our time isn’t the only one, so, there’s this aspect of the work that involves freezing flowers, and there’s also this other disambiguation, because when you take a flower and you freeze it, you get this magic trick happening before your very eyes: The flower is now dead but it’s an image of itself as it was alive, at exactly the same scale, taking up exactly the same position in space. „The CarbonCycle Nursery“ both complements this and contrasts with it, since however many completely dissonant and wrong flowers and plants are put together, you always accept it immediately as a real plant and, to me, that suggests that we’re programmed, in a way, to accept evolution.

Marc Quinn

April 23, 2009 – May 22, 2009

March 13, 2009 – April 10, 2009

November 27, 2008 – December 27, 2008

November 12, 2008 – November 22, 2008

Photographs from the 1869—1870 Polynesian excursion of the French Navy Commander, Paul-Émile Miot (1827—1900) An elaborate, handsome book of formerly unpublished photographs, drawings and objects from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. When the French Navy Commander Paul-Émile Miot was sent to Oceania on the Astrée in 1869, he took his camera equipment along, as he had on his previous expeditions including the one to Newfoundland.

The photographs taken on the Polynesian journey and published for the first time in this illustrated volume are unique, not only because they are the first photographic record of the South Sea people.

The distinctive, complex compositions and the fond eye with which he stages the portraits, make his photographs rare historical documents.

Miot’s photographs are neither an artist’s „snapshots“ of exotic scenery nor a journalist’s academic documentation of a foreign place. With his photographs, he seems to have captured the essence of a paradise, the last paradise as the 19th Century Western World imagined it to be.

His formal portraits of the Tahitians are iconic likenesses from an era of transition from painting to photography. In remote Polynesia, this development took place 30 years later than in Northern America and Europe.