Goldin/ Putz – Attitudes

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Goldin/ Putz – Attitudes

5 December 2020 - 10 January 2021

The exhibition Goldin/Putz puts works of the young Austrian Photographer Hanna Putz in dialogue with the American “photostar” Nan Goldin. Both works reflect the daily life, the friends and the social and cultural context of the two artists. It will show parallels of artistic attitudes and praxis and the differences of generation, culture and background. It is an homage to a great passionate woman and artist who wrote photo history with her engaged and intimate work exploring  the alternative and gay culture, the LGBT community and her own life from the late seventies and early eighties till today and it is the discovery of an extremely talented and innovative young photographer who reflects and portraits the young cultural crowd of our time and its way of living.

The show includes 18 photographs from Nan Goldin from the years and 17 works from Hanna Putz .

 

HANNA PUTZ: Austrian photographer Hanna Putz was born in Vienna in 1987. She worked as an international model for some years before deciding to devote herself entirely to photography in 2009. Without a formal education in photography, Putz gained global recognition and has already been showcased in the prominent publications Zeit Magazin, Dazed&Confused, HUSK, New York Magazine, amongst many others.

Her works are imbued with honesty and express a profound understanding of the subtle nature of self-presentation. In front of her camera, human relationships are intimately unveiled without the violence of transparency. Stripped of their ‘spectacular and noisy’ elements, human beings are allowed to appear in their vulnerable essence. Hanna Putz says: ‘I’m interested in the high demands of self-representation nowadays. Everything is public. Very few things seem to be private anymore. I try to grasp the substance of a person or to depict a feeling through a composition within an image. Perhaps it is what one could call human nature, traces of which can sometimes find their way into a photograph. A sense of closeness to oneself, for oneself rather than for someone else.’

Her photographs have been exhibited in Europe as well as in the US, 2020 her work was shown in the  FLATZ Museum, Dornbirn, in  Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and the  MAK Museum of Applied Arts , Vienna. She was already  shortlisted for the 1000 World  Photography Award in London.

 

Nan Goldin: Nancy “Nan” Goldin is an American photographer. Her work explores LGBT bodies, moments of intimacy, the HIV crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable autobiographical work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), which documents New York City’s No wave music and art scene, the post-Stonewall gay subculture  and Goldin’s personal family and love life. She lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Paris.

Nan Goldin  works radically extended our view on society, casting a light on the other, the extraordinary, the margins and the eccentric. Works which also reinvented the dialogue between subject and photographer and joined a documentary with a highly idiosyncratic approach. Her works are as much expressions of their times and their particular environments as they are tributes to the plurality of being itself. With her extraordinary snapshot aesthetic she “portrayed her friends – many of them part of the hard-drugs subculture on New York’s lower east side – as they partied, got high, fought and had sex. It was first publicly shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1985 and was published as a photobook the following year.” Goldins works are collected and exhibited by the most important museums in the world from the MOMA in NY to the Tate in London. The Goldin works are loans from the well known Viennese Photo collection  Jelitzka.

Supported by the  Austrian Embassy to Malta

Ticket Information

Adult
Free
Concessions
Free
Children
Free
Cinema Club Members
n/a
Concession tickets include students, senior citizens and Special ID Holders (SID).

Venue Information

Spaces

St James Cavalier
Castille Place, Valletta VLT1060 Malta
Space A

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Duration
5 weeks
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