photos: Maxime Ballesteros
Ever since the French photographer Maxime Ballesteros got his first camera when he was a teenager, he hasn’t stopped taking pictures. Carrying a camera always with him, in order to be ready for when he sees something interesting to him, rather than documenting everything, Ballesteros uses photography as a tool to visualize his own subjective view of the world. His first monograph, Les Absents was released this month by Hantje Cantz Publishing, and produced in cooperation with the visionary culture and fashion network Sang Bleu in London, including various texts and poems by the artist himself. It takes us on a strong, emphatically physical, and a bit surreal journey into the artist’s world.
His photographs show a section of the world where day and night, dream and nightmare, the subjective and the objective are of equal importance. He compares his conception of his photography to the way our brain keeps both reality as well as dreams and nightmares in the same space; the same way, the artist’s imagination takes shape and comes into existence through the camera, making it real. He shoots in the moment, following his protagonists to wild parties, private apartments, and the beach at dawn—shimmering and excessive, sharp and always in style. Read on…
by Stella | Art, Books
photo: Maxime Ballesteros (at KIK TWO)
With the First of May holiday giving us a super long weekend the timing couldn’t have been better for the Gallery Weekend to happen in Berlin as everyone is out and about and eager to experience this creative and vibrant city. Pictoplasma is of course one big magnet with it’s fluffy and cute monsters. But apart from the monsters there is a lot more going on in terms oh fine arts and photography. We have selected the three exhibitions we are looking most forward to in the coming days which include the work of photographers Sascha Weidner and Maxime Ballersteros as well as paintings by Jonathan Meese, Johannes Mundinger and Sophia Hirsch. If you are looking for even more recommendations we advise you to check out the Gallery Weekend Guide by our friend Eva from ArtBerlin. For our I HEART BERLIN-style recommendations have a look after the jump.
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by Frank | Art
photo: Sascha Weidner
This week is one of those versatile affairs again. We have two very interesting photography exhibitions opening by Berlin-based talents Sascha Weidner and Maxime Ballesteros, and the rest of the week is dominated by very participative events: Sew a dress at a DIY party, climb into an interactive installation at an indie-game party, prepare an amazing dish at a cooking party, and make your own costume for a masked ball. This and much more after the jump.
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by Frank | Art, Events, Fashion, Party
