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12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
GIDEON MENDEL
THE HOME OF JOHN JACKSON, 2007
chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive

12th Edition MIA Fair 2023

ARTCO Gallery @ MILAN IMAGE FAIR

Johanna-Maria Fritz » Arne Grugel » Gideon Mendel » & others

Fair: 23 Mar – 26 Mar 2023

Wed 22 Mar

SUPERSTUDIO MAXI

Via Moncucco 35
20143 Milano

ARTCO Berlin


10783 Berlin

+ 49 (0)30 -64468090


www.artco-gallery.com

12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ
PORTRAIT OF ATIFA, 2021
Fine Art Print on Photo Rag Baryta

ARTCO Gallery @ MILAN IMAGE FAIR
Dates: Wednesday March 22nd - Sunday 26th SUPERSTUDIO MAXI - via Moncucco 35, 20142, Milan, Italy Booth C010
Wed, 22nd: Preview (on invitation) Thur, 23rd: 12:00 – 21:00
Fri, 24th: 12:00 – 21:00
Sat, 25th: 11:00 – 20:00
Sun, 26th: 11:00 – 20:00

Starting from the 23rd March, ARTCO exhibit Johanna-Maria Fritz’s work alongside the photographs of Gideon Mendel, recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers and awarded for his longterm advocacy project DROWNING WORLD. As a third artistic position,  Arne Grugel’s carefully assorted multi exposure photography creates a link to Milan’s heritage in art and design.


Johanna-Maria Fritz has been traveling the world as a photographer for the last ten years. The Berlin-based artist finds her motifs in crises, conflicts, collapsing states, persecuted minorities, and at the margins of society. „There, I see people who are absorbed by their own problems and have never learned to pose according to our standards“, she explains.
During her visual research on female carpet weavers in Afghanistan, Fritz has had portraits of Taliban men woven into rugs. Made by the same girls whom the Islamists had forbidden to learn, thus to hope. Iconic artworks that illustrate the inhumanity of the current regime. In the fair, these recent works from Afghanistan are juxtaposed with her long-term art project LIKE A BIRD - a documentary of circus performers in Muslim-majority countries. Motifs that resemble dreamy landscapes full of contrasts, intimate despite their sometimes precarious situations.

Gideon Mendel: Recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers, Mendel’s intimate style of image-making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid. It was this work as a “struggle photographer” that first brought his work to global attention. Mendel’s earliest work from South Africa was highlighted in the Rise and Fall of Apartheid touring exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Since 2007, Mendel has been working on Drowning World, his long-term art and advocacy project about flooding that is a personal response to climate change. Solo shows of Drowning World have been shown at many galleries and public installations around the word, including ‘Les Recontres de la Photographie’ in Arles.
In 2021, the photographer and climate activist Gideon Mendel has been affected by climate change himself. Stored inside the ARTCO storage in West Germany, his works were severely affected by a devastating flooding. These unique pieces have thus become an artistic evidence of urgent planetary catastrophes.


Arne Grugel's art is an interplay between shape, color and arrangement. Shot all analogue in multiple carefully assorted exposures, the figures he is creating leave a unique impression of planet-like bodies. Suspended in space, they slowly pulsate and radiate as they float along quietly. Their energy is released through light and color - pulling in the observer's focus while darker elements seem to be dense and impenetrable. Just like our universe, these bodies are an invitation to find equipoise between energy and gravity.
So when meditating and channelling light is his inspiration, the analogue production process is exactly about that. As a much slower medium than digital photography, it requires a high degree of accuracy. It works in real-time and is the ideal tempo for capturing the subtext of each shot - materialized in every individual print.

12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ
SUMAYA AND ATIFA SHOWING A HIDDEN THREAD, 2021
Fine Art Print on Photo Rag Baryta

ARTCO stellt ab dem 23. März auf der Mailänder Image Art Fair Arbeiten von Johanna-Maria Fritz und Gideon Mendel aus, der als einer der weltweit führenden zeitgenössischen Fotografen gilt und für sein langfristiges Projekt DROWNING WORLD ausgezeichnet wurde. Als dritte künstlerische Position stellt Arne Grugels sorgfältig arrangierte mehrfach belichtete Fotografien eine Verbindung zu Mailands historischem Hintergrund in Kunst und Design her.




Seit 2007 arbeitet Gideon Mendel an Drowning World, seinem langfristigen Kunstprojekt zum Thema Überflutungen, welches seine persönliche Antwort auf den Klimawandel ist. Einzelausstellungen der Serie wurden in zahlreichen Galerien und öffentlichen Einrichtungen auf der ganzen Welt gezeigt, darunter im "Les Recontres de la Photographie" in Arles.Im Jahr 2021 wurde der Fotograf und Klimaaktivist Gideon Mendel selbst vom Klimawandel getroffen. Seine im ARTCO-Lagerhaus in Deutschland aufbewahrten Werke wurden von einer verheerenden Überschwemmung schwer in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Als künstlerische Zeugen drängender globaler Katastrophen haben diese Unikate damit eine besondere Bedeutung erlangt.

Während ihrer Recherchen zu Teppichknüpferinnen in Afghanistan hat Johanna- Maria Fritz Porträts von Taliban-Männern in Teppiche einweben lassen. Geknüpft von jenen Mädchen, denen die Islamisten verboten hatten, zu lernen und damit zu hoffen. Ikonische Kunstwerke, welche die Unmenschlichkeit des derzeitigen Regimes veranschaulichen. Auf der Messe werden diese aktuellen Werke aus Afghanistan ihrem langfristigen Kunstprojekt LIKE A BIRD gegenübergestellt, einer Dokumentation über Zirkuskünstler in muslimischen Ländern. Motive, welche verträumte Landschaften zeigen, intim, trotz ihrer mitunter prekären Situation.

Arne Grugel’s Kunst ist ein Zusammenspiel von Form, Farbe und Anordnung. Die Figuren, die er ganz analog in mehreren sorgfältig sortierten Belichtungen aufnimmt, hinterlassen einen einzigartigen Eindruck von planetenähnlichen Körpern. Im Raum schwebend, pulsieren und strahlen sie langsam, während sie ruhig dahinschweben. Ihre Energie wird durch Licht und Farbe freigesetzt - sie ziehen den Blick des Betrachters an, während dunklere Elemente dicht und undurchdringlich zu sein scheinen. Genau wie unser Universum sind diese Körper eine Einladung, das Gleichgewicht zwischen Energie und Schwerkraft zu entdecken.

12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
GIDEON MENDEL
FLORENCE ABRAHAM, 2012
Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive
12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
GIDEON MENDEL
DORCA EXECUTIVE APARTMENTS (STUDENT ACCOMMODATION), 2022
chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive
12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
ARNE GRUGEL
BODY IN SPACE, 2023
Fine Art Print on Canson
12th Edition MIA Fair 2023
ARNE GRUGEL
164,8 YEARS OF PATIENCE, 2022
Fine Art Print on Canson