Open Eye Gallery
28-32 Wood Street
Liverpool L1 4AQ
Tel: +44 (0)151 709 9460
www.openeye.org.uk
Opening Times
Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am - 5.30pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays
Lars Tunbjörk
9 February – 5 April 2007
Open Eye Gallery is proud to present the first solo show in the UK of the work of Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk. Tunbjörk’s photographs portray aspects of modern urban life, above all issues related to the spaces in which many of us spend most of our lives: the office and the home. This exhibition features three recent bodies of work: Office, Dom Alla and Madrid 2004.
In Office (2001) Lars Tunbjörk looks at the world of office work in Japan, North America and Sweden. His images present a uniform workplace, bleakly furnished and banal, the inhabitants of which struggle to express their individuality. Dom Alla (All Those, 2002) is a journey through the Swedish welfare system. Working in five cities across Sweden, Tunbjörk met and photographed people in welfare offices, shelters for homeless people, and drug rehabilitation units. The last series, Madrid 2004, focuses on the presence of nature in our built environment. These photographs were shot in newly-built residential spaces on the outskirts of Madrid, where the only remnants of nature are the weeds that survive in cracks in the sidewalk or peep out from beneath rocks. Tunbjörk also examines our attempts to recreate nature in paltry gardens and decorative borders, examples of the developers’ disdain for anything that is peripheral to their drive for profit.
Tunbjörk points his lens at the ordinary an office carpet, a flower bed, a birthday cake bathed in fluorescent light. With humour and humanity he examines our attempts to create a better, or at least a bearable, world. His work is full of melancholy, presenting a ruin of the recent past and a way of life in jeopardy.
Lars Tunbjörk was born in 1956 in Borås, on the Swedish West coast, and is now based in Stockholm. He is one of Sweden’s most respected photographers and a frequent contributor to leading international journals, including the New York Times. He is a member of the photography agency VU in Paris.
TATE GALLERY, LIVERPOOL
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB
Telephone: 0151 702 7400 (international +44 151 702 7400)
Fax: 0151 702 7401
Email: visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
Exhibition Hours
Tuesday–Sunday 10.00–17.50 Closed Mondays (except Bank Holiday Mondays)
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the AvantGarde
20 February – 9 September 2007
Free Entry
To coincide with Liverpool’s 800th anniversary celebrations, this major exhibition
investigates how the city has influenced and inspired a diverse range of important post war artists. Centre of the Creative Universe, which takes its title from a statement by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, explores how artists have contributed to an external view of Liverpool in people’s imaginations, and reveals, as well as challenges, myths of the creative scene in the city over the past four decades.
In that time Liverpool has emerged as a centre of global pop culture, a source of inspiration for documentary photography practice and politically motivated tendencies, and played host to a series of major avantgarde artists and movements ranging from Pop to Conceptual Art. As a result, Centre of the Creative Universe will include some of the most prominent artists of the last fifty years such as Keith Arnatt, Bernd & Hilla Becher, the Boyle Family, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra, Adrian Henri, Candida Höfer, John Latham, Yoko Ono, Martin Parr, Bob and Roberta Smith, Sam Walsh and Tom Wood. The exhibition brings these key figures together in Liverpool, and through the interplay of their works, presents an ambitious history of the visual arts in the city, and explores the city’s status as a work of art in the mind of the artist.
Supported by the Liverpool Culture Company.
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (NMPFT)
Bradford,
BD1 1NQ
Tel: 01274 203305
An-My Lê: Small Wars
Gallery One: 23 February to 7 May 2007
Small Wars records military enthusiasts that accurately reenact battles from the Vietnam War in rural Virginia and North Carolina. Ironically, as a requirement of attending these events, AnMy Lê had to dress in Viet Cong or North Vietnamese army uniforms and take part in the events, occasionally appearing in her own photographs.
This exhibition has been organised by the Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Columbia College, Chicago, USA.
Paul Seawright: Field Notes
Gallery Two: 23 February to 7 May 2007
In the early 1990's Paul Seawright became famous for documentary works focusing on the conflict in Northern Ireland. His images avoid the reality of violence and conflict and instead, through a forensic photographer’s eye, show us the sites long after the acts of brutality that occurred there.
Seawright was born in Belfast in 1965. He is best known for his early work in his home city, particularly the series Sectarian Murder (1988) in which he photographed the sites of sectarian murders around Belfast and paired the images with newspaper reports. More recently he has photographed postwar Afghanistan (Hidden) and urban Africa (Invisible Cities). He is Professor of Photography and Dean of Newport School of Art Media and Design at the University of Wales and is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts.
This exhibition is a Fotomuseum Antwerp Touring Exhibition.
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH
The Quays
Trafford Wharf Road
Trafford Park
Manchester
Open
Daily – 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
Tel: 0161 836 4000
A Long Way from Home: The Falklands 25 Years On
IWM North The WaterWay
31 Mar 2007 to 22 Jul 2007
On 2 April 1982 Argentine forces overwhelmed the Royal Marine garrison in Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. The retaking by British forces of these Islands, along with nearby South Georgia, was codenamed Operation Corporate. 252 British and 655 Argentine servicemen died, as did three islanders, and over 10,000 prisoners of war were taken.
This small exhibition of photographs is drawn from IWM’s own archives and includes powerful images taken by both British and Argentine servicemen. All have etched on their faces the effort and exhaustion of fighting in a desolate landscape a long way from home.