Miles Aldridge’s pictures describe a glossy world, full of brightly illuminated, sexualized models in acid colours. With his cinematic compositions and dramatic situations his work offers a bright new vision of the post-modern world. Aldridge, born in 1964 in London, has had solo shows in London at Hamilton’s Gallery, in New York at The Steven Kasher Gallery, in the Netherlands at The Reflex Gallery and in Paris at Colette. His work was also showcased in The International Center of Photography group show, “Weird Beauty”. His photographs frequently appear on the pages of Vogue Italia. This year he shot the key visual for the Mercedes-Benz Fashionweek Berlin with Milla Jovovich.
CONTRIBUTED will host his first solo exhibition in Germany. “MILES ALDRIDGE: 13 Women” will be a comprehensive retrospective of his work exhibited as large scale prints. Also on show will be the rare limited-edition box sets. His three books “Acid Candy”, “The Cabinet” and “Kristen seen by Miles Aldridge and Chantal Joffe” (all published by Reflex Editions, Amsterdam) will all be available at the gallery.

]]> http://www.contributed.de/2010/07/01/13-women/feed/ http://www.contributed.de/2010/06/11/kma-kunstmeile-karl-marx-allee-dokumentation/ http://www.contributed.de/2010/06/11/kma-kunstmeile-karl-marx-allee-dokumentation/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:47:12 +0000 jo http://www.contributed.de/?p=485 Die Karl-Marx-Allee bildet ein neues Epizentrum in der Berliner Kunstszene.
Jan Fabritius und Michael Jochem dokumentieren hier den aktuellen Stand.

Ellen von Unwerth has photographed the German National Football Team for Strenesse wearing the Strenesse Menswear collection. The result is a book entitled “Die Spieler” (“The players”), a thriller movie without any words but with pictures that speak for themselves: performances as demonic as criminals in an Orson Welles production, as threatening as a Mafia boss in well known movies, as inscrutable as a detective in Edgar Wallace mysteries or with all the sex appeal of a Southern Italian macho. Strenesse AG has been the official outfitter of the German National Football Team since the 2006 World Cup. “Die Spieler”, published by Medienfabrik, Gütersloh, comprises 200 pages, costs €39,90 and is available at www.diespieler-dasbuch.de and www.strenesse.com as well as in bookstores and Strenesse Shops.

Gas stations, landscapes, and airports are favorite motifs for photographer and conceptual artist Ralf Peters (*1960 in Lüneburg). At first glance, his images appear to be familiar, but then disturbing details become evident. Logos and lettering have been removed from the Gas Stations-series; the pictures are not faithful reproductions of given situations, but rather deliberately aesthetic renderings of the everyday environment. They decidedly reject any claim to conventional realism.
In contrast, the views from the windows of an airport in the Salta-series are reminiscent of paintings by Piet Mondrian. With these unprocessed photographs, Peters continues playing with the notions of manipulation and documentation, and comes up with astonishing results that present the viewer with insoluble puzzles.

Watch an exhibition docu with Ralf Peters. Directed by Amon Barth. Produced by Jens Apitz.

In 2008, 10 Hasselblad Masters were selected for a competition chosen from different categories. Each Master received a Hasselblad H3DII DSLR camera system to use for four months. During this time, the Masters were challenged to capture a selection of images with their interpretations of PASSION, the striking results are included in the Hasselblad Masters book. Each winning Master is to exhibit a chosen photograph forming a 10 Master show at Contributed from 23rd September until 23rd October, 2009. Hasselblad will host a get together at Contributed on Thursday 1st October from 7PM – 10PM. We look forward very much to seeing you there then.

]]> http://www.contributed.de/2009/09/23/hasselblad-masters-2008/feed/ http://www.contributed.de/2009/09/18/on-line/ http://www.contributed.de/2009/09/18/on-line/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:32:04 +0000 jo http://www.contributed.de/?p=303 21.09 from 7 to 10pm
Presentation of Peter Langers Photo Book “ON LINE”.

Berlin photographer Peter Langer has captured the everyday into personal, ironic imagery with documentary-style accuracy over the last decade. Inspired by the phenomenon of time, he demonstrates how fleeting moments can become lasting impressions when recorded through the eye of the lens. On Line presents a comprehensive visual diary with 366 pictures documenting the year 2008. Winner of the Lead Awards 2009 for Architecture and Still Life Photography, Langer’s work is regularly published in German Zeit magazine and included in renowned publications on fashion and architecture.

Author: Peter Langer
Publisher: Gestalten Berlin

What started in 2001 as a boutique design agency under the guidance of founder Alex Wiederin turned into a creative think tank for high-end international fashion and editorial design clients as well as some of the world’s most established photographers, editors and publishers. Believing that creative expression is limitless, buero new york’s creative team shares one overall approach: to give voice to the unique and inherent personality of a brand or project.

One of those projects’ result is to be seen at CONTRIBUTED during the summer 2009.

Watch a guided video tour with Alex Wiederin. Directed by Ulrich Bentele

The bent tubular steel has been heralded as the symbol of modernity in furniture design ever since the radical innovations designed by Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer in the 1920s. In honour of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus osko+deichmann pay hommage to the classic Cantilever Chair and two other tubular steel pieces by visually and physically challenging tradition and implementing a controversial detail into the canon of the design: The kinked tube.

The Twin Paradox is a thought experiment in the theory of relativity in which a twin who journeys into space in a high-speed rocket returns home to find he has aged less than his identical twin who stayed on Earth.  The paradox is based on the phenomenon of “time dilation” whereby an observer finds that a clock, which is physically identical to his own, is ticking at a slower rate as measured by his own.  This is perceived as time “slowing down” for the other clock, but that is only true in the context of the observer’s frame of reference.

This theory is contemplated in six pieces. The Twin Paradox exhibits motion as relative: that time does slow down, reverse, loop or fast-forward in a subjective context.  The paradox borders science and fiction.

ND-Artists is a Berlin based agency representing some of Germany’s leading talents in the world of photography, styling and set design and took the opportunity to present and celebrate the artists and their work and portfolios during the ADC. The Art Directors Club is a club of innovation serving as a magnet for all creatives from 22nd – 26th April, 2009.

Werkstatt:München has been on the international market for over 10 years and is sold world wide in leading boutiques and luxury department stores. On the occasion of Berlin’s press days, CONTRIBUTED collaborated with Werkstatt:München to exhibit the new collection and present it to a select number of journalists for two days.

Having already built an excellent reputation in Japan, Satoshi moved to Europe in 2006 where his mix of car, landscape, fashion and conceptual photography has been extremely well received. CUSTOMIZED was Satoshi’s first solo exhibition, shown first in London in December 2008 to January 2009, then in CONTRIBUTED from February to March, 2009. The exhibition resulted from a collaboration between Intersection Magazine and CONTRIBUTED, to celebrate the launch of the German edition.

The Bernhard Willhelm Showroom was the first event to be hosted at CONTRIBUTED and took place during the Berlin Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2009/10. Bernhard Willhelm presented his collection as a living installation on 31st January in the Postbahnhof, Berlin, after which selected press and buyers were invited by appointment to visit the showroom to discover the new collection in an intimate and unique environment.

CONTRIBUTED started as a studio for the Arts, serving as a cross-over presentation platform within the fields of fashion, photography and art.