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- Antarctica: In Discussion with Paolo Pellegrin & Andréa Holzherr
Antarctica: In Discussion with Paolo Pellegrin & Andréa Holzherr
4.13 Sat. 14:30―15:30
Horikawa Oike Gallery 2F
[ENG / JP]
Free
ANTARCTICA. 2017. NASA IceBridge flight surveying climate change in Antarctica.
Aerials taken from a NASA P3 plane flying over Venable 01A.
Please join Paolo Pellegrin and Magnum Director of Exhibition Andrea Holzer in a discussion about the artists impressive and emotive work in Antarctica. Paolo joined NASA's IceBridge expedition to document the impact of climate change on the Antarctic from above.
“From up there, it’s ecstasy in front of the magnificent. I think I understood what the romantic notion of the sublime was: It’s not only the absolute beauty of these landscapes, it’s the sensation of finding yourself in front of a presence that speaks of eternity,” says Pellegrin. “I knew I was looking at something exceedingly beautiful – like a Sistine Chapel of nature – a beauty that is hard to grasp but which also contains something which is not well.”
Just how unwell the Antarctic is, forms the focus of NASA’s annual IceBridge expedition. The operation, which began in 2009, is part of an 11-year campaign to yield an ‘unpresented’ three-dimensional view of Antarctic and Arctic.
While this may be unfamiliar territory for Pellegrin, it wasn’t as alien as it may seem. He has spent much of his career covering historical events, many of which convey suffering and conflict in the Arab world. The Antarctic is simply another kind of battleground; in place of political strife and fighting, icebergs melt and sea-levels rise. “I have photographed conflicts for many years; things that man does to man. Yes there is tragedy but there is also a form of resilience, which can express itself in many ways; in an act of survival, courage, honour or love,” he says. “And you could say that the warming Arctic – on another order of magnitude and scale – is another conflict. Here, man isn’t present but climate change is a result of human activity and human ideas: Endless growth which has no limits.” - Paolo Pellegrin
For more information on this project please see the MAGNUM website.
“From up there, it’s ecstasy in front of the magnificent. I think I understood what the romantic notion of the sublime was: It’s not only the absolute beauty of these landscapes, it’s the sensation of finding yourself in front of a presence that speaks of eternity,” says Pellegrin. “I knew I was looking at something exceedingly beautiful – like a Sistine Chapel of nature – a beauty that is hard to grasp but which also contains something which is not well.”
Just how unwell the Antarctic is, forms the focus of NASA’s annual IceBridge expedition. The operation, which began in 2009, is part of an 11-year campaign to yield an ‘unpresented’ three-dimensional view of Antarctic and Arctic.
While this may be unfamiliar territory for Pellegrin, it wasn’t as alien as it may seem. He has spent much of his career covering historical events, many of which convey suffering and conflict in the Arab world. The Antarctic is simply another kind of battleground; in place of political strife and fighting, icebergs melt and sea-levels rise. “I have photographed conflicts for many years; things that man does to man. Yes there is tragedy but there is also a form of resilience, which can express itself in many ways; in an act of survival, courage, honour or love,” he says. “And you could say that the warming Arctic – on another order of magnitude and scale – is another conflict. Here, man isn’t present but climate change is a result of human activity and human ideas: Endless growth which has no limits.” - Paolo Pellegrin
For more information on this project please see the MAGNUM website.
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- Paolo Pellegrin
- Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L’Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy before studying photography at l’istituto Italiano di Fotografia, in Rome. Between 1991 and 2001 Pellegrin was represented by Agence VU in Paris. In 2001 he became a Magnum Photos nominee and a full member in 2005. He was a contract photographer for Newsweek for ten years. Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including ten World Press Photo awards and numerous Photographer of the Year awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. He lives in London.
- Andréa Holzherr
- Andréa Holzherr (born in 1964 in Tübingen) lives and works in Paris as an exhibition manager, publicist and curator. She studied at the Ecole du Louvre Paris as well as at the Sorbonne. She has been working since 2003 as the global exhibitions director and curator for Magnum Photos, Paris and is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums and cultural institutions in Europe. Before, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as assistant curator to the director. Andréa Holzherr has curated numerous exhibitions, among others Bang Bang, Tatort Kunst 2012 at Haus der Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Mythos Kindheit 2010 at the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, the Haus für Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Elina Brotherus: The New Painting 2006 at the Finnish Museum of Photography, and Stella Polaris 2006 at Paris Photo. In September 2013 she was the responsible curator for the 5. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg in Germany. Her publications include such titles as Eve Arnold Homage (2012), Helsinki School (2005-2011), George Rodger Unterwegs (2009), Elina Brotherus (2005), as well as numerous publications in specialist contemporary photography magazines.
- Horikawa Oike Gallery 2F
- 238-1, Oshiaburanokoji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-0052
Subway Tozai Line “Nijojo-mae” station. 3 min on foot from exit 2
