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Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

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Renato Cisneros digs into his own family history to understand and demystify the figure of ‘El Gaucho’: the controversial Secretary during the regime of Francisco Morales Bermúdez and, shortly after, the country’s Minister of War.

In his new book Between Worlds, the artist assembles his archives to deliver the essence of his visual writing: a luminous alchemy at the service of immersion in the image. But the idea of holding multiple levels of now as being simultaneously present is fascinating and maddening and finally deeply rewarding in a way that is impossible to reduce to a single topic or thesis statement. As Barbara Rose said of Smith’s major Tate Gallery retrospective in 1975, he was ‘at once in and out of touch with the currents of the mainstream … au courant and aloof at the same time. A note from FRAMES: if you have a forthcoming or recently published book of photography, please let us know. He photographs things we’ve all seen – think about TV Shots, his documentary/commentary on British society made of photographs of television screens – but never seen quite the way he does.Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its position in the East Mediterranean has always given it strategic importance beyond its size.

One of the things that’s fascinating about this collection is the way every image has multiple narrative lines.Other images range from New York City to Israel to Belgium to Paris to Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid, the Dominican Republic, Tunis. No matter the setting, the country or the era, Gruyaert deploys a luminous alchemy suspended in time. A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world’s most respected art historians. Clark addresses this strangeness head-on, examining the art of Pissarro, Matisse and others in relation to it. Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles―rumba, mambo, son, salsa―at a dizzyingly fast rate.

The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism. A good photo is a photo that says a lot of things about the place and the moment it was taken,” says Gruyaert. If we lost touch with his sense of life, they thought, we lost an essential element in our self-understanding.

Prof David Alan Mellor investigates and explains the Anglo-American cultural contexts that drove Smith’s art, while Alex Massouras’s two themed essays, ‘Young and British’ and ‘From Motion Pictures to Flight’, explore Smith’s originality from fresh perspectives. Between Worlds, Gruyaert’s new book, is a deeply wonderful new collection of images taken throughout his career. The green walls the red chair are a compositionally wonderful pairing, the frame within a frame of the glassless window isolates the narrative outside. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution , when Cuba’s Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia’s financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba. And we also have in the window the reflection of what is behind the photographer – trees and cars and street signs.

With a historical gazetteer, chronology of major events, index, bibliography and historical and contemporary maps, this book is an invaluable companion to students or visitors to the island. Another image from is from Madrid in 1993 and appears to be taken outside a subway car, through a sheet of glass to a man and a woman sitting inside the car. Most often, there is some version of a window that separates the scene, creates dissonance, and includes reflections that bring in unexpected content. If These Apples Should Fall: Cezanne and the Present looks back on Cezanne from a moment – our own – when such judgments may seem to need justifying.By continuing your navigation on this site, you accept the use of cookies, which we use to better understand your expectations and offer you services adapted to your interests. A Traveller’s History of Cyprus” offers a complete and authoritative history of the island’s past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island. A familiar theme, but one that, across the generations, can occasionally unearth something rather powerful.

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