Simon Roberts “Public Performance”
Exhibition from May 27 to July 31 2017
Opening Reception on Friday, May 26 at 7pm
Robert Morat Gallery is thrilled to be able to show new work by Simon Roberts this summer. “Public Performance” assembles works from three different series by the British photographer – The Last Moment, Sight Sacralization: (Re)framing Switzerland and Urban Parks.
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My work New Vedute – Alternative Postcards, Rome Commission 2016, will be on display at the Italian Cultural Institute from 16 May to 18 June 2017, on the occasion of Photo London.
Last year we showed a group exhibition based on several Rome Commission – from Martin Parr to Paolo Ventura, Guy Tillim, Alec Soth, Anders Petersen and much more. This year we will show the 2016 Rome Commission by Simon Roberts.
Admission free, booking online: http://bit.ly/2pc6kty
Curated by Marco Delogu and Flavio Scollo.
Image: Karl Hugo Schmölz © Archiv Wim Cox
A series of my works in the Art Collection Deutsche Börse will be included in the group exhibition, “Work & Leisure” which will be exhibited in The Cube, Eschborn, Germany.
Dates: 12 May to 8 September 2017
The exhibition “Work & Leisure” devotes itself to the two living environments which most impact everyday human life. The displayed photographs cover a broad range of different working environments and conditions that dominate workers’ rhythm of life. This ranges from images of Brazilian mine workers in the works of Sebastião Salgado and surface mining areas in the former German Democratic Republic by Inge Rambow to Andreas Gursky’s trading floors of international stock exchanges and Candida Höfer’s images of library reading halls. Set against these workplace images, the exhibition shows photographs depicting recreational activities and diversion, recounting the places and rituals sought out to find regeneration. This can seem somewhat bizarre in the works of Martin Parr and Jürgen Nefzger, while the works of Lucas Foglia and Simon Roberts tell of where the quest for leisure in the vastness of nature can lead. The central theme of the exhibition is therefore the search for identity and freedom of the individual in everyday life, covering various periods, regions and cultures.
With more than 100 photographs by 28 artists of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, “Work & Leisure” offers a multifaceted artistic insight into the places we spend a large part of our lifetime in, which in turn makes them highly relevant, to society as a whole as well as to the private realm of the individual.
The exhibition is curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Sebastian Knoll and Annekathrin Müller.
To sign up for a tour, please visit: http://bit.ly/2pezN2M
You can find more about the Collection here: https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists.php
I will be participating in this symposium hosted by the MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism course at University of Westminster.
9th May, 11-1pm
Speakers include-
David Moore, Head of MA Documentary Photography, University of Westminster
Dr Massimiliano Fusari, Teacher and Photographer
Clare Grafik, Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery
Anne Bourgeois, Global Digital Director Magnum Photos
Britain in Pictures: Landscape, History and Identity
with Simon Roberts and David Chandler
I will be involved in a Photography Research Dialogue event with Professor David Chandler at the Plymouth University as part of the MA Photography Programme. The event is open to visitors.
Wednesday 3 May
Scott 114, 2.00pm to 5.pm
Through highly regarded publications such as Motherland (2007), We English (2009) and Pierdom (2013), and for his incisive coverage of the General Election of 2010, photographer Simon Roberts has emerged over the last decade as one of our most interesting chroniclers of the British social landscape. In this timely research dialogue, Roberts will discuss his recent work and the preparations for his new book project with David Chandler, who will be contributing an essay to that publication. Linking a number of his different series over the last ten years, Roberts’s new book continues his investigation into the relationship between landscape and national identity, while paying more specific attention to the texture of British life during the unfolding of recent historical events. The afternoon will be structured around two presentations: one by Roberts about the book and one by Chandler about the ideas and images informing the research for his essay. The presentations will be followed by an in-conversation between the two speakers and a general discussion.
I have two video pieces included in this upcoming exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London. They will be showing my Sight Sacralization Part 1 & 2 in the group exhibition ‘From Selfie to Self-Expression‘.
The show will be the world’s first exhibition exploring the history of the selfie from Velazquez to the present day, while celebrating the truly creative potential of a form of expression often derided for its inanity. Showing alongside examples of many influential artists’ work will be selfies that have quickly become icons of the digital era – from the beautiful and sublime to the mad, bad and downright dangerous.
Rembrandt van Rijn Self-Portrait with Two Circles, Juno Calypso The Honeymoon Suite, Actor Benedict Cumberbatch jumps behind U2 at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #21.
Flowers Gallery will be presenting prints from my Sight Sacralization: (Re)framing Switzerland work at the 37th edition of The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD.
It will be held March 30– April 2, 2017 at Pier 94 for the first time.
Pier 94, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA
Hours
Wednesday, March 29
Vernissage VIP Hours: 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Vernissage Public Hours: 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 30 through Saturday, April 1
VIP Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Public Hours: 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 2
VIP Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Public Hours: 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The newly expanded Show, organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, will present exceptional photography from early masters, modern luminaries, and rising and established contemporary names from more than 100 of the world’s leading fine art galleries.
One of the world’s most prestigious annual photography events, The Photography Show is the longest-running and foremost exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium, offering a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs as well as photo-based art, video, and new media.
The Photography Show will feature galleries from across the U.S. and around the world, including Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, and South America. With four new sections – Salon, Gallery, Positions, and Discovery – the Show will offer work from both AIPAD members and new exhibitors, as well as younger galleries, and book dealers and publishers.
Opens: 9 March, 7 pm
Introduction: Andrew Phelps in conversation with Simon Roberts
FOTOHOF will present the first exhibition of the British photographer Simon Roberts in Austria. Simon Roberts is a prolific and internationally renowned photographer of the contemporary British photography scene, who has spent the past 10 years tracing the “British”. The exhibition in Salzburg is titled “Landscape Studies of a Small Island”, the beginning of an international exhibition tour of this work.
In 2005 Roberts began to deal with the question of what it means to be British and decided to focus his camera on his own country, the British and their landscape. The result is a series of several works showing the political, social and cultural British landscape. Non-judgmental and free of irony, his photographs provide evidence and information about social relations not only between people, but also between people and the places of their leisure activities in the English countryside.
Press Release available here.
A series of my photographs made for the Rome Commission are included in the group exhibition Colosseo Un’Icona on show at the Colosseum in Rome.
For more information about visiting: http://www.coopculture.it/en/colosseo-e-shop.cfm
Blurb-
The ambulatory of the second order of the Flavian Amphitheatre will host the exhibition entitled “Colosseum. Icon “, curated by Rossella Rea, Serena Romano and Richard Santangeli Valenzani , with exhibition design by Francesco Cellini .
For the first time the Colosseum is told in an exhibition that will trace the long and intense life of the site over the centuries up to the present day.
The exhibition is divided into six sections arranged in chronological order, through which we will highlight the historical and cultural influence of the amphitheater, which is found in the most diverse: from painting to restoration, from architecture to urban planning, from the show literature, sociology and politics.
Over time, the monument has become the symbol par excellence of eternity and power of civilization and culture. Even today, the attention of the international news, the Colosseum is present in the collective imagination not only of Italian: his myth continues.
The exhibition is promoted by the Superintendence for the Colosseum and the central archaeological area of Rome, with Electa. It ‘also accompanied by volume The Colosseum Book and will follow the catalog, both published by Electa.
Our artist collection Piece of Cake, has been invited to participate in this event at Aperture (New York, USA): Collective Thinking, For Freedoms
Opening: Wednesday, February 22, 6-8:30pm
Aperture has invited the artist-run super PAC, For Freedoms, to curate and implement an improvisational exhibition and series of dialogues that investigates the photographic collective as a model for responsive artistic production.
This two-week project will feature live events that bring together several active photography communities to discuss the practices, benefits, and methodologies of collectivity, while focusing on the question of what defines “the political” in art-making today. The photographic collective is a form intended to amplify the individual voice and to provide a forum for artistic feedback and critique. Is the act of creating dialogue in and of itself political? Can diverse creative communities be inclusive while remaining coherent? What is there to learn from each other? How can an art space become, like a collective, a vehicle for dialogue? Each collective is invited to contribute a visual prompt for discussion and selected works to be presented in the space; the main propulsion for this activity, however, will be a series of in-person activities including meet-ups, salon-style conversations, and other events.
The collectives included in the exhibition are EverydayClimateChange, Invisible Borders, Kamoinge, Piece of Cake, Rawi(ya), and WRRQ.
ForFreedoms Event: Saturday, February 25 (tentative date), all-day publishing event.
Piece of Cake Beer & Books & Bingo, Friday, March 3, 6-9pm (open to public).
Piece of Cake sharing/critique all-day workshop with NYC-area MFA students: Saturday, March 4
Collective Round-table Discussion with For Freedoms – discussion about collectives: Wednesday, March 8, 6:30-8:30
This is the opportunity for the collectives to come together in a public conversation about collectives.