1 - Robert Morat, Project Space Berlin - Helen Levitt "New Yorkers"

INVITATION TO THE OPENING RECEPTION

ROBERT MORAT GALERIE SCHAURAUM IN BERLIN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 2010 AT 6PM

"SPECIAL GUEST" PRESENTATION BY
LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY, NEW YORK

TO OPEN IT'S NEW SPACE, ROBERT MORAT GALERIE PRESENTS TWO SHOWS

SIMON ROBERTS: WE ENGLISH October 2 to December 4 2010 Simon Roberts travelled throughout England in a motorhome between August 2007 and September 2008, for this portfolio of large-format tableaux photographs of the English at leisure. Photographing ordinary people engaged in a variety of pastimes, Roberts finds beauty in the mundane; the result is an elegiac exploration of identity, attachment to home and land, and the relationship between people and place. This is the most significant contribution to the photography of England in recent years." (Chris Boot, Publisher) Simon Roberts, born 1974, studied Human Geography and Photography in Sheffield. He gained international reputation with the publication of his first book "Motherland" (2007). His work has been awarded and exhibited internationally, among others at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai and, just lately, in a large solo presentation at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England. His work is found in important collections such as the Deutsche Börse Art Collection, the George Eastman House and the Wilson Centre for Photography. Simon Roberts lives and works in London. Type caption text here. HELEN LEVITT: NEW YORKERS October 2 to October 30 2010 Presented by Laurence Miller Gallery, New York Special Guest Presentation by Laurence Miller Friday, October 1st, 6pm Helen Levitt: New Yorkers is a thirty print exhibition featuring both classic and never before exhibited photographs taken in New York City between 1938 and 1945. Considered by many the quintessential poet of the streets of New York, Helen Levitt lyrically captured life on the street, at a time before television and air conditioning kept people inside. These intimate black and white prints celebrate women in conversation and children at play. They are more dance than social narrative, more theater than document. This will be the first one-person show of Helen Levitt's work in Berlin. A highlight of the exhibition will be a suite of her first proofs, small prints which Levitt made in her bathroom darkroom as studies from which she would edit and choose her finest images. Seen together, these earliest images reveal Levitt's own dance, as we assume her multiple vantage points and witness her exploring a conversation, or a child's game, in pursuit of the perfectly balanced composition. A limited quantity of the recently published catalog,"HELEN LEVITT: a memorial tribute" will be available. Project Space Berlin -The Robert Morat Gallery in Hamburg focuses on new positions in contemporary photography and photography of the 20th century. Now the gallery opens a project space in Berlin, showing alternating exhibitions by represented artists, book presentations and artist talks. The space will be open Saturdays 12 - 6pm and by appointment. Special opening hours during Artforum Berlin: October 5 - 10 2010, daily 11am - 6pm. ROBERT MORAT | GALERIE Schauraum Berlin Kleine Hamburger Str. 210115 Berlin Germany Tel +491724348781 www.robertmorat.de

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