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Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography
21 December 2018 – 6 March 2019
Press Release | Amsterdam, July 2018
Feast for the Eyes shows the rich history of food photography - not only in the visual arts, but also in commercial and scientific photography and photojournalism. From the banality of the diner-breakfast special of Stephen Shore the to the allegorical still life of Laura Letinsky, from Roger Fenton's extensive nineteenth-century displays of food to the cookbooks of the sixties. The extensive exhibition, Feast for the Eyes, explores the most important figures and movements in food photography.
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Foam Talent: announcing selected photographares
20 photographers selected for Foam Magazine Talent issue
Press release | 4 September 2018
1610-05-09, from the series Orchid from the series grass, peonie, bum, 2015 © Maisie Cousins (detail)
Foam is delighted to announce the names of the 20 young artists, whose work will feature in the upcoming Foam Magazine #52: Talent, which will be published in December 2018. Successively, in 2019 the Foam Talent Programme with talks, events and large-scale presentations will travel internationally to San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt.
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Foam Magazine #51: Seer/ Believer: The Mythical Issue
Press release | 28 August 2018
Image from the series The Fear Theories, 2007–2017 © Christiane Peschek / Courtesy of the artist (detail)
On 28 August, the brand new issue of Foam Magazine #51 will roll off the presses. This issue is themed around 'the mythical’, a subject that has played an important role in visual arts throughout history. The photographer has the ability to transform and create connections through envisioning stories from ancient times to contemporary life. Through a process of endless repetition and re-interpretation it becomes a timeless given: a myth existing at the junction where fact and fiction collide. And at the end, we believe what we see, or do we?
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Loading… Works from the Foam Collection
14 September - 18 November 2018
Press release | July 2018
Portrait with a Yellow Window, 2011 © Daniel Gordon / Courtesy of Wallspace New York (detail)
In 2014, Foam presented to the public work from its own collection for the first time, in the exhibition Reflected - Works from the Foam Collection. Since then, the collection has grown from over 400 to around 550 works of art. The collection – which is focused solely on contemporary photography – is still constantly developing. Loading… Works from the Foam Collection shows a selection of the most recent additions from the last five years. It features work from 30 international photographers in a diverse exhibition that reflects Foam’s exhibition programme.
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya – Double Enclosure
14 September - 18 November 2018
Press release | 31 July 2018
Mirror Study (_Q5A2059), 2016 © Paul Mpagi Sepuya (detail)
Foam presents the first solo exhibition by Paul Mpagi Sepuya (born 1982, USA) in Europe. In his exhibition Double Enclosure, Sepuya enters into a dialogue with himself as artist, his subjects and the spectator. He comments on the medium of photography as a construction of longing: the longing to record things, to look, to touch and to keep.
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Foam 3h: Senta Simond – Rayon Vert
7 September – 28 October 2018
Press Release | July 2018
Laurence, 2016 © Senta Simond / courtesy Webber Gallery, London (detail)
Senta Simond's work focuses on an intimate approach to the female body and portraiture. Her photographs feature a circle of acquaintances and respond to existing, and too often clichéd, representation of femininity. Simond doesn’t take her photographs on a built set but against a white background, often a white wall in the domestic surroundings of the model herself. The equipment is simple. The level of trust between the model and the photographer is high. This minimal method allows Simond to get close to her subjects.
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Masahisa Fukase - Private Scenes
7 September – 12 December 2018
Press release | July 2018
Sasuke 1983, from the series A Game © Masahisa Fukase Archives (detail)
The lifework of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase (Hokkaido, 1934–2012) remained largely inaccessible for over two decades, following a tragic fall that left the artist with permanent brain damage. After his death the archives were gradually disclosed, revealing a wealth of material that had never been shown before. Foam presents a large-scale retrospective with original prints from the Masahisa Fukase Archives in Tokyo. In addition to his seminal body of work Ravens, the exhibition contains a number of important photo series, publications and documentation dating from the early 1960s to 1992.
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Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
