”Curious about the world”

”Curious about the world”

08.01- 03.02.2010

is an exhibition that brings together the work of four photographers and a musician. It presents their visions, curiosities and stories. They have been brought together from the different parts of the world and joined into a dynamic group for the first show of the year 2010 at the Kastellaani Gallery.

Japanese photographer Takaki Hashimoto has developed a deep appreciation for his homeland’s thought and aesthetic and spiritual values that continues to influence and inform his photographic work. He has worked both as a professional photographer and as a researcher and developer of advanced digital photographic processes. Takaki set up his own company in 2001; Advanced Digital Systems LTD, and began producing photographic artworks in 2005. Last year he won the second prize in the prestigious Sony Photography Awards.He lives and works in Tokyo.

Anthony Andrea is from London, UK. He has said about photography ”A photograph is a manifestation of impulses and desires. People and places meet for a moment, come into focus, and then part again, never to return. This is the mystical, tragic and compelling paradox of photography”.

Lea Tomson comes from Tallinn, Estonia. Her photography presents a conceptual, documental and critical perspective of abandoned social environments. Her work emerges naturally in the course of her journeys into the disintegrating and desolate places that she is inexorably drawn to. The remains of past human activity and habitation and their inevitable decay, ugliness and neglect are the materials and facts which coalesce into a unique poetic vision of the leftovers of human presence.

Roxanne Brousseau-Felio, Canada: ”To be inquisitive about the world and my place in it. To exercise the craft of nurturing senses of wonder and discovery. To challenge ways of seeing and engage in the immediate experience. Embracing moments reflective of where and what I move from in this journey of living. Enjoy!”

There are many different worlds around and within us which sometimes coincide and sometimes drift away from each other. Sound meeting visual has the ability to change the way we look and understand them. Sound itself and it‘s reception are altered too by the other arts. Estonian based German musician Gerhard Lock’s fresh, real, frank and unpredictable violin improvisations were born through being inspired by the environment of the exhibition. They are accompanied by a second, virtual world of modified wind chime sounds which invites visitors to meditate. You are welcome to perceive what can happen, when these contrasting worlds meet each other and yourself. Be curious!

Curator: Lea Tomson