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NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks Gallery presents the
exhibition Darren
Almond: Sometimes Still at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition marks
the debut
of a six-screen high-definition video Almond photographed near Kyoto,
Japan,
over the past several years. Three new photographs made in the Rwenzori
Mountains in Uganda will also be on view in the gallery at 526 West 22nd
Street.
Darren Almond (b. 1971) lives and works in London. This will be his
fifth
one-person exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery since 2000. Darren Almond
will be
on view May 8 through June 26, 2010.

PARIS.- Susan Anderson portrays people who
have
become so unreal it is hard to conceive that not the photo but the
person was
edited. Coming from a background of commercial and editorial photography
she
knows how to tell a story within a single frame. Her pictures of the
queens of
child beauty pageants are eerie in their honesty. These pictures where
not
staged, in fact, they are snapshots taken within a 5 minute frame that
the
contest organizers would give her. These children are so conditioned to
strike a
perfect pose every time a lens is aimed at them. While seducing the
camera these
children seem to have aged well beyond their years.

Hamburg,
Germany – Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in
2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of
Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in
cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at
Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists in Germany
and on the international scene, Fritsch represented Germany at the Biennale in
Venice in 1995 and exhibited at Tate Gallery in 2001. 

LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Contemporary
brings
together two contemporary photographers who have documented the
sartorial
expressions of particular communities in the Congo and South Africa.
Daniele
Tamagni and Araminta de Clermont befriend their respective subjects and
utilize
the camera to create unique records of these communities. Tamagni’s
images
brilliantly capture the energy and pride of the Sapeurs of the Congo.

The works have a Cartier Bresson spirit with their vibrant ‘decisive
moments’
and energetic displays of colour. De Clermont’s portraits reference the
glamorous feeling of contemporary editorial images – her bright, hot
daylight
flash reminding one of the images filling the glossy pages of fashion
and music
magazines.

STOCKHOLM.- Keren
Cytter has rapidly established
herself internationally as one of the most interesting and unique
artists on the
contemporary art scene. At the mere age of 33 (born 1977 in Tel Aviv,
currently
living and working in Berlin), in the last eight years she has produced
more
than 50 video works, written three novels and an opera libretto, started
the
dance and theatre company D.I.E. Now, won awards and is the darling of
the art
press. Last summer, she exhibited at the New Museum’s group
show
Younger Than Jesus and participated in the Venice Biennale. Cytter says:
“I
studied art because I wanted to go to New York and wash dishes.”