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Tomorrow in New York: 1500 Gallery presents “Berlinscapes” by Brazilian photographer Tuca Vieira, winner of the 2010 Premio Porto Seguro, the most important annual art photography prize in Brazil. That’s worth a mention – and the more so as deconarch.com has presented Tuca’s work in an interview and I’ve actually been around when he was working on the great photographs in Berlin! Congratulations Tuca!

Link to Interview

Berlinscapes #5 Digital C-Print 47.2" x 37.0" (120 x 94 cm), Edition of 5 © T. Vieira

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Tuca Vieira: Berlinscapes

March 30 – July 30, 2011

1500 Gallery, New York

www.1500gallery.com

There will be a reception for the artist at 1500 Gallery on Wednesday, March 30, 6-8 pm, with caipirinhas courtesy of Leblon Cachaça.

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Berlinscapes #3 Digital C-Print 47.2" x 37.0" (120 x 94 cm), Edition of 5 © T. Vieira

PR-Text: Drawing on the formal rigor and architectural inspiration of the Düsseldorf School, Vieira creates his own distinctive style. Berlinscapes depicts functional architecture but in a nocturnal setting, with sensual lighting. One could describe it as a “tropicalization” of German photography’s rigidity and formality – “Germany meets Brazil”. Made during Vieira’s 2009 artist residency in Berlin, this body of work highlights the contrasts and juxtapositions of “old Berlin” and “new Berlin”, revealing traces of not only divergent prosperity, but also the great battles for territorial and ideological conquest that caused it. If, on one hand, the physical presence of man escapes the viewfinder, on the other it is reinforced by clear evidence of man’s effect on the landscape through monuments and markings, denoting conquests and circumscribing the course of history. From these fragments, the city of Berlin emerges in all its complexity.

Vieira is from Sao Paulo and from 2004-2009 worked as a reporter and photojournalist for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Since 2002 Vieira has worked on personal projects relating to cityscapes, architecture and urbanism. His work is present in the collections of the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (Brazil), Itaú Cultural (Brazil), and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), among others. For more information on Tuca Vieira please visit his page on 1500′s website: www.1500gallery.com

Berlinscapes #17 Digital C-Print 47.2" x 37.0" (120 x 94 cm), Edition of 5 © T. Vieira

About 1500 Gallery: 1500 Gallery is located in New York City’s West Chelsea gallery district and specializes in Brazilian photography – the first gallery in the world with this explicit focus. 1500 represents several of the most recognized Brazilian art photographers, both emerging and established, with works present in major collections in Brazil and worldwide. 8 of 1500’s photographers are present in the Sao Paulo Museum of Art’s collection of photography. 1500 was founded in 2010 by Alexandre Bueno de Moraes and Andrew S. Klug. For more information, visit www.1500gallery.com

Info + illus. courtesy 1500 Gallery

Two hints for those of you living or travelling South America, Brazil or Argentina in particular: young Brazilian photojournalist Tuca Vieria, who told as more about his work in a detailed interview a little while ago, shows his work in São Paulo, while in Buenos Aires, the Fundación Proa presents “Urban Spaces” – photographed by “the” German urbanity photographers of the Düsseldorf school.

Tuca Vieira, Viaduto Santa Ifigênia © T. Vieira

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Tuca Vieira

Fotojournalismo

29. June – 29. Juli 2009

Instituto Carrefour

Rua Paul Valery, 255

São Paulo, Brazil

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URBAN SPACES

Andreas Gursky | Candida Höfer | Axel Hütte | Thomas Ruff | Thomas Struth

From May 30^th until the end of July 2009

Fundación PROA, Bueonas Aires

Illustrations © Fundación Proa + Photographers

Andreas Gursky Tote Hosen, 2000

(quoted from Proa’s PR statement, abridged)

The show analyzes the evolution on the concept of the city in contemporary culture through the ideas and images produced by the artists of the so called Düsseldorf School of Photography: Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.

Axel Hütte Minneapolis, Missisispi, 2006

The exhibition presents 45 works produced from the early eighties until recent times. It is designed to take the visitor first through the artists’ early works, produced during their formative years, to their most recent body of work, in which an individual selection from each artist emphasizes their stylistic differences and personal characteristics.

The selection of the works is the result of the continuous dialogue between the artists and the curator and depicts the different interpretations and relation each artist has with the urban space. This is the first time Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth are joined in an exhibition under a common theme – the city – yet with various interpretations.

The exhibition will present works, such as May Day IV, by Andreas Gursky, or Candida Höfer´s Buenos Aires series. Also, less known works that exemplify the artists formation under the wing of Bernd Becher, photography teacher at the Dusseldorf School of Photography, can be appreciated.

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The photographers: Bernd + Hilla Becher’s Düsseldorf School

Thomas Ruff m.d.p.n. 06, 2002

The influence of the artists on the global artistic context is due to the overhaul their works produced on the tradition of the concept and language of photography, not only through the scale of the images in their monumental format, but also through the conceptual treatment they present. Each piece recreates a unique and defined universe that concentrates in the interrelation that exists between man and his surroundings together with all its anthropological and sociocultural implications.

During the 1980s, their teachers Bernd and Hilla Becher, conveyed the city theme as an important artistic reference. Subsequently each one of them developed a unique and personal style, following the drastic changes caused by the rapid globalization of urban cultures. Their images depicting different sites around the world, combine the local details with the usual feelings and experiences of contemporary societies. The Dusseldorf School became a reference within the art and photography scene.

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Thomas Struth Cerro Morro Solar, Perú, 2003

The exhibition catalogue

In the exhibition catalogue, a bilingual publication (Spanish – English) of 200 pages, each artist counts with a special section that includes an unpublished interview, a biography and the exhibited works. The catalogue also includes critical essays by curator Pratesi and art critics such as Armin Zweite and Pablo Perulli -published in Spanish for the first time-, and Valeria González.