Search Results
Flower Power exhibition in Helsinki
.
Few weeks ago I participated at a group exhibition Flower Power in Kallio Kunsthalle in Helsinki. The director and founder of the gallery is Petri Saarikko with whom we were working together at Fabrica, the research center of communication of United Colors of Benetton. We were there in years 2000/01. I’ve made this short video about the documentation of the exhibition. I hope you will like it. The gallery is known for it’s non-mainstream exhibitions and it’s alternative representations of artwork. I’m saying they are post-postmodern gallery.
In fact I had two exhibition. Beside the one in the kunsthalle, the second was more candid. Petri printed my Great Depression pictures and we pin them on their pinboard and put them the window of Elokolo. Elokolo is an organisation that among other things also offers support to people who became unemployed. In the morning when they are offering free meal, they invited me to give a speech about my work, highlighting Great Depression project.
I had a lovely time in Helsinki. I met Tarmo, the main wet plate president from Estonia. In Helsinki we did a crash course on wet plate negative and salt printing. I tell you, wet plate negative is going to be the new topshit thing! Tintypes are so tenties…
Exhibition Flower Power
Flower Power exhibition. Photo: Alenka Peterlin
Flower Power exhibition. Photo: Alenka Peterlin
Last two weeks there was a lot of stuff happening with such intensity that I didn’t had time to blog about it. So, Flower Power exhibition in Sokolski dom, Škofja Loka was a success, exhibition looks great. I exhibited 35 images and it works really well if they are many images together. If it would be just a single or just few images, it would be a gag, but all together works really well, raising issues of news making, objectivity, spin public relation,…
The exhibition is open until 7th of March 2012. Here is a video about the project if you haven’t see it yet.
Flower Power – photo exhibition
I’m inviting you to the opening of my show on Friday 3rd of February 2012 in Sokolski dom in Škofja Loka, Slovenia.
About the project:
As a photojournalist for the weekly Mladina I have been daily photographing press conferences, politicians’ handshakes, and other “flash for cash” photo opportunities. At a certain point I became frustrated with these news-safaris, where the press officer in charge determines my and other photographers’ view angle, the timing and the expression of the politician(s). Searching for an approach that would motivate me personally, I decided to document the flower arrangements accompanying such public functions. At every event I thus also take a personal picture in addition to the usual news images, a picture that is out of the pre-set context. Instead of glorifying some important politician, it sets flowers in focus, thus degrading the politician to unsharp background that distracts the composition. The cure works perfectly and now I look forward to every press conference, no matter how trivial it is.
I have been working on this project for over six years now. With my Flower Power bouquets I have captured also world leaders, such as George Bush, Ban Ki-moon, Romano Prodi, Angela Merkel, DalajLama, Vladimir Putin and others. Let me quote Marcel Štefančič who commented the series: “A hundred years from now no one will know who these politicians were, what their names were, but everyone will still know what these flowers are called. That’s it – Flower Power.”
Portfolio on my site www.borutpeterlin.com
——————————————————————————————————————————————————–
Vabim Vas na otvoritev razstave Flower Power v Sokolskem domu v Škofji Loki, v petek 3.2.2012, ob 19. uri. Več na moji strani www.borutpeterlin.com
Kot fotoreporter tednika Mladina dnevno fotografiram tiskovne konference politikov in nešteta rokovanja, kjer nas osebe za stike z mediji pripeljejo na točno določeno mesto, nam odmerijo tako zorni kot, čas fotografiranja, kot tudi nasmeh politika. Ta novinarski fotosafari me je spravljal ob živce do točke, ko sem se prepričal, da ob vsem tem medijskem pompu, mora biti nekaj, kar nihče ne fotografira ali snema in s časom ugotovil, da so to cvetlični aranžmaji.
Od takrat poleg običajnih novinarskih fotografij še dokumentiram cvetlični aranžma in tako politične veljake degradiram v neostrini moteče ozadje. Zdravilo deluje in bolj butasta novinarska konferenca je, z večjim veseljem jo fotografiram.
Flower Power and Vladimir Putin
Regular readers of my blog know well my Flower Power project that is a personal rebellion against politics and news-photojournalistic-safaris. Instead glorifying politicians I’m focusing on plants and degrading politicians on disturbing background. It was exhibited on 6th U3 Slovenian art triennial in Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, which I consider a Rock and Roll achievement. Yesterday Vladimir Putin was visiting Slovenia and I’ve made this pictures of beautiful plants. I hope you will enjoy it and let Flower Power be with you.
Redni bralci mojega bloga poznajo serijo Flower Power, kjer kot osebni protest proti politiki in novičarskim-fotosafarijem, fotografiram cvetlične aranžmaje in namesto, da bi glorificiral velmožje, jih degradiram na moteče ozadje. Serija je bila razstavljena na U3 – trienale sodobne umetnosti v Sloveniji v Moderni galeriji, kar si štejem za čisti rok in rol dosežek! Včeraj je bil Vladimir Putin na obisku in naredil sem te čudovite botanične fotke. Upam, da vam bodo všeč in naj vas Flower Power spremlja.
Another powerful Flower Power image from Bled Strategic Forum 2010
Here is another lovely image of Orchids on Bled Strategic Forum. You can feel the love breezing from this image isn’t.
More about the project on my site:
www.borutpeterlin.com
Colin Powell in Flower Power bouquet at Bled Strategic Forum
You know my FLOWER POWER project, where I make a photographic revolt against public relation and the world of politics. It started as a joke, but now it’s exhibited in Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, so it’s officially ART! These are my yesterday’s pictures. I can’t decide which one is better. Which one is more nihilistic?
PS: Garry Winogrand, my inspiration, would be proud.
Simon Perez and Flower Power project
I made a new picture for my Flower Power project. Last week Simon Peres was in Slovenia and I made this Flower Power images. First one is the best. Bodyguards guarding Flower and not president Peres. Great that I have Simon Peres in my FLOWER POWER bouquet along with George Bush, Angela Merkel, Ban KiMoon, DalajLama, Romano Prodi and Janez Drnovšek many others.
About Flower Power article by Marcel Štefančič in Mladina weekly
In this issue of Mladina weekly there are four pages devoted to my Flower Power project that was exhibited at U3 – 6th Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia written by Marcel Štefančič. It’s a really great text and I recommend. Leave some comment if you read it.
In the past I exhibited my work also in Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Museum Doland in Shanghai, Host Gallery in London, but this exhibition is surely the peak of my artistic career. This is the most I can do at the moment and I’m damn happy with the result. I’m receiving great critics from various people. Yesterday Majda Širca, Minister of Culture introduce me to Samuel Žbogar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and he was delighted with my picture of him (HERE).
What’s next step? The Flower power exhibition in Slovenian parliament at the end of this year and a book…
Here are few more souvenir pictures from the U3 opening night.
New Flower – Power picture
Regular readers of my blog knows that I’m working for last few years on Flower Power project. Short summery; during daily press conferences I document flower bouquets in a way that important famous people are visually degraded to a disturbing background. It’s my personal revenge to public relation personal that treat us, photojournalists as a herd, decreeing us a point of view, handshake and a smile of a politician. What started as a personal frustration, turned out to be a serious art project.
I’ve been invited to participate with Flower Power project on exhibition U3 – Triennial of Contemporary Slovenian Art, curated by Charles Esche in Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. Texts about the project for the catalog were written by Marcel Štefančič and Grega Repovž. Great honor indeed. Opening of the exhibition is on 8th of June 2010.
My career as an artist is obviously skyrocketing, because just today I’ve received an invitation to participate with Strojan family series on an exhibition in London and also in the beginning of this month there was an opening of a private art collection OKOLJE CONSULTING ART COLLECTION in Gallery of Modern Art in Celje and three pictures of Strojan family are also part of that collection! It’s true what Martin Parr said during our interview; The secret of success is to continue working what you do, so long that people can’t afford to ignore it anymore! Rock and Roll to that!
Oh… about the picture above. I took this grass field picture this morning during a speech of Samuel Žbogar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Slovenia, in Brezovica pri Metliki, Slovenia. Larger Flower Power portfolio you can see HERE.
Flower – Power images for 8th of March – Women’s day
_
I’m not much of a gentleman and on 8th of March I asked my wife to assist me on a whole day shoot for a commercial job, so I gave you flower – power images for 8th of March a week later!
This images are from army barrack Franc Rozman Stane, where there was a ceremony for a Women’s day. The guest of honor were wife of the president of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk, Minister of defence dr. LJUBICA JELUŠIČ and Albin Gutman.
PS: Soon I’ll publish a gallery with the best of my Flower Power images in last three years that I’m working on it. It’ll be a laugh!
TOPSHIT PHOTOGRAPHY blog 