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Imported Landscape, AL3_9a
2003
Photography
100x120cm

November 26 (Mon.) 2007– February 9 (Sat.) 2008 “Making, Marking, Mapping – approaches to the next generation”
Closed: Sundays and National holidays, also 23rd of Dec. to 6th of Jan.

Photo Gallery International presents a group exhibition titled “Making, Marking, Mapping” through February 9, 2008.

Since it’s opening in 1979, Photo Gallery International has been introducing photographic works not only in Japan but also in the world. The circumstances surrounding photography has been dramatically changed by the development of new technologies; especially in the past 10 years it is whirlwind of change.
Photographic way of expression becomes expanding following a development of digital technologies as well as a decrease of production such as photographic film and paper due to the new technology.

At the exhibition, works by the 5 young photographers who have varied way of expression, from China, Germany, Iceland, U.S.A. and Japan, are shown as a new stream of photography. All of them were born in the 1970’s and seem to share enigmatic sense of crisis. With such sense, they stand face to face with objects. It seems that both positive and negative thinking as well as impatience is included in their photographs. They express from another dimension about themselves and the world surrounding them in the way that is photography’s original
function: record. The way they renew existing object then create their own world of photography is like mapping.

These young photographers’ works were shown at the exhibition entitled “ReGeneration. 50 Photographers of Tomorrow” in 2005 at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. The exhibition traveled to the venues in Milan (Italy), New York (U.S.A.), etc.
Akaaka–Sha published Japanese edition of the catalogue in 2007.

The exhibition “Making, Marking, Mapping” is a selection of images of the 5 photographers from the “ReGeneration” catalogue including their recent works.
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Marco Bohr
(b. 1978 Germany) Lives in London, UK
from the series “Ovservatories”
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Pétur Thomsen
(b. 1973 Iceland) Lives in Reykjavik, Iceland from the series “Imported Landscape”
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Ryo Owada
(b. 1978 Japan) Lives in Tokyo, Japan
from the series of “Prism+”
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Song Chao
(b. 1979 China) Lives in Beijing, China
from the series “Residents in a Coalmining Area” and “Coal- miners”
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Ted Partin
(b. 1977 U.S.A.) Lives in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Petur Thomsen

1973 born in Reykjavík, Iceland

Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland

Education

2001 – 2004 MFA, École Nationale Supérieur de la Photographie (ENSP), Arles, France.
1999 – 2001 BTS photographie at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques, Montpellier, France.
1998 – 1999 Art history and archaeology at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, Montpellier, France.

Grants

2007 Penninn, Cultural Fund, Iceland.
2006 Working scholarship, The Ministry of Culture, Iceland.
2005 The Ministry of Culture, Iceland.
2005 Margrét Björgólfsdóttir, memorial foundation. Reykjavík, Iceland.
2004 The 10th LVMH young artists’ award winner, France.
2002 First prize: “L’architecture de l’abbaye Montmajour et de son environnement”. L’Abbaye de Montmajour, France.

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Camara Oscura, Madrid, Spain.
2007 Gallery Turpentine. Reykjavík, Iceland.
2006 PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.
2005 The National Gallery of Photography, National Museum of Iceland.
2005 Gallery Mustafa Ali, Damascus, Syria.
2005 NCCA-SpB, Kronstadt, Russia.
2004 Akureyri Art Museum. Akureyri, Iceland.
2003 The cultural center of Skriðuklaustur, Islande.
2003 Galerie du LAKANAL, Montpellier, France.
1999 “The workers of ISAL” at the art gallery of the Icelandic Aluminium Factory
1998 The people of Álftanes, permanent exhibition in the community of Álftanes, Iceland.

Group Exhibitions

2007 “Making, Marking, Mapping – approaches to the next generation”Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan.
2007 Climax, Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
2007 Centre Culturel Marcel Pagnol, FOS/mer,France.
2007 Sæból. The Nordic house. Reykjavík, Islande.
2007 « L¹esprit dans l¹escalier ». DRAC, Aix en Provence, France.
2007 Arrebato. Camara Oscura galeria de arte. Madrid, Spain.
2007 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Art Center, Pasadena, California, USA.
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Art institutuin of Boston, Massachusets, USA.
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Pingyao Festival, Pingyao, China.
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Aperture Foundation, New York, USA.
2006 “PIE” exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
2006 Hvörf, video installation. City hall, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2005 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italia.
2005 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland.
2005 Instituto francés de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
2005 Galería El Ojo Ajeno, Peru.
2004 The 10th LVMH young artists’ award winner. Galerie du Pont-Neuf. Paris, France.
2004 Bagration & Harmenszonn and Voies Off - The Fringe Festival - Arles, festival off des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles. France.
2004 Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome. Rome, Italy.
2004 Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France.
2003 Voies Off - The Fringe Festival - Arles, festival off des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles. France.
2003 TEC-TECE. Rencontre Internationale de la Photographie d’Arles. France.
2002 L’architecture de l’abbaye Montmajour et de son environnement. L’abbaye de Montmajour, France.
2002 TEC-TECE. Rencontre International de la Photographie d’Arles, France.
2002 4 points de vues photographiques. La Galerie Photo. Montpellier, France.

Collections

2006 PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.
2006 The National Museum of Photography, Iceland.
2005 Le Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2005 Olis, Iceland Oil ltd, Iceland.
2003 The cultural center of Skriðuklaustur, Iceland.
2002 La Galerie Photo. Montpellier, France
2002 L’abbaye de Montmajour, France
1999 ÍSAL, Alcan in Iceland
1998 The town council of Álftanes, Iceland
Private collections in Iceland, France, England, Norway and Switzerland.

Bibliography

2006 A strange place called nowhere by Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir in SHIFTS, Archives in dialogue and new identities in documentarism. i(p+r)/n 2nd Changing Faces Conference. Finland.
Kamera-Lehti, Islantilainen valokuva. Helsinki, Finnland.
PHaT PHOTO, Pretty Hot and Tempting Photo magazine. CMS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. May-June 2006.
PHaT PHOTO, Pretty Hot and Tempting Photo magazine EXTRA. CMS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. May 2006.
reGeneration 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025. Aperture Foundation, NY, USA.
PORTRAIT de MANUFACTURE Jaeger-LeCoultre. Jaeger-LeCoultre, Switzerland, March 2006.
Kárahnjúkar, Der kleine Bund, 28. January 2006, Switzerland.
2005 “Aðflutt landslag”, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
reGeneration 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025. Thames & Hudson, London.
“Einn hinna ungu”, Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, Dagblaðið Vísir, 18/08/2005.
“Hvernig höndla skal það óráðna”, Bergþóra Jónsdóttir, Morgunblaðið, 22/02/2005. Iceland.
Les cahiers de l’École de Blois – numéro 3, Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur, Paris, France, Janvier 2005.
2004 “Kárahnjúkar og kímnigáfa í list Péturs Thomsens og Louisu Matthíasdóttur”, Bergþóra Jónsdóttir, Morgunblaðið, 14/09/2004. Iceland.
"Antichambre/Anticamera", Éditions Actes Sud / École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, for the exhibition "Antichambre/Anticamera", Académie de France in Rome Italy, Villa Médicis, June 2004.

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www.camaraoscura.net
www.turpentine.is

Petur Thomsen

Ásbrekku 3
225 Álftanes
Iceland

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