Like every year, Galerie Clairefontaine presents a group show with various themes before the summer vacation. Starting out with the serious topic of our world’s ongoing political crises, the portrayal of Asya taken in 1996 by Stanley Greene (who unfortunately passed away very recently) has become an icon of women’s fate in war today. Karin Székessy’s cut out dress from 1971 leads over to the erotic theme in her typical bold style, followed by Luc…

If you love art, meeting artists enriches your life and brings you closer to an intangible world that you yearn for, but don’t experience in your everyday life. The eternal Faustian desire to “know what holds the inner world together” lies dormant in us all and needs to be satisfied. We may not realise the dream, but we must still dream it, and each of us does so in our own way. The book and the exhibition document the quest of Luxembourgish gallerist Marita Ruiter over th…

PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG workshops lectures exhibitions June 19 - 24, 2006 information: +352 472324 subscribe to newsletter: info@photomeetings.lu Mass Media Manipulation Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and remain instantly accessible. Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what Walter Benjamin cal…