MIRAPROSPEKT » Jiri Makovec http://miraprospekt.com A Showcase for independent photographers Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:03:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 MIRAPROSPEKT at tête http://miraprospekt.com/mp_2014_tete/ http://miraprospekt.com/mp_2014_tete/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:30:22 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=4213 MIRAPROSPEKT at tête, Berlin. Dec 2014
Frames and prints by Patrick Becker, Roger Minick, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Alisa Resnik, Shinji Abe, Ingeborg Gerdes, Christian Reister, Jan Zappner, Jiri Makovec, Hannah Goldstein, Jetmir Idrizi, Andreas Pein, Holger Biermann and Sebastián Laraia

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EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-exhibition-and-book-launch/ http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-exhibition-and-book-launch/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 23:00:55 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3768 Jiri Makovec FROM THE ISLAND at oslo8 in Basel

oslo8 – contemporary photography

www.oslo8.ch

We are looking forward to see you all at Jiri’s opening in Basel. He is showing images from New York. At the same time, it is the book launch for his new book “From the Island”.

On this evening Jirka is also dj – ing with DJ M.B.Un. To celebrate this night, Jiri’s friends and brothers will bring fresh beer from Prag!

 

Opening: thursday june 6 2013, 6 pm
exhibition june 7 – august 24 2013

opening hours gallery
friday/saturday 2 pm – 6 pm or by arrangement
summer break july 14 – august 8

opening hours during art basel
monday june 10 – saturday june 15, 10 am – 7 pm

 

oslo8
contemporary photography

kunstfreilager
oslostrasse 8-10
postfach
4053 basel

+41 61 272 58 58
www.oslo8.ch
contact@oslo8.ch

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FROM THE ISLAND http://miraprospekt.com/from-the-island-by-jiri-makovec/ http://miraprospekt.com/from-the-island-by-jiri-makovec/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:23:45 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3324 Photographs from New York by Jirí Makovec

Czech-born Jiří Makovec arrived in New York City in 2002 and embraced his new environment with an intense curiosity, never leaving its confines until 2009. From the Island represents his body of work from a five year period (2004-2009).

Makovec is an outsider, but he is not the street photographer of old, looking in at his subjects. He is not entirely observing from a distance. Instead he is like someone who is contemplating joining, and is maybe just on the brink of stepping into, the group. But this new shared realm of subject and photographer is not always what it seems to be. In Makovec’s work one senses that he is uneasy with the ugliness and chaos before him, and yet he also sees an undercurrent of strange beauty, and is attracted by it. In his imagery he seems to be looking for the liminal spaces between many realities and for that which might elevate himself and those around him.

Investigating the mystery of the island and playing with its uncomfortable harmonies comes naturally to Makovec. What he sees on the street are many pieces of evidence that teach us something about the nature of the City and its inhabitants. Makovec’s imagery is often playful and surreal. He is a brilliant technician with the eye of a cinematographer, and his images often have the look and feel of being painstakingly lit and staged shots. But they are not staged. They are, in fact, authentic moments instinctively captured as he makes his daily explorations in the island.

Makovec applies a careful sensibility towards his subject. There is nothing exploitative in his work, nor does he have a calculated agenda. He wants the viewer to participate with him and make the connection: “See, this really isn’t so strange. We are all a little odd at times. Yes, those cars are on fire, and yes, for a moment there, I felt frightened too”. All seems a little chaotic on the island and there are a lot of people–even an elephant lying on the ground, seemingly trying to find some comfort and respite. But at the moment before we feel the possibility of despair, Makovec offers us the solution of imagination.

Matthew P. Carson
Librarian & Archivist
International Center of Photography

contact:   email   web

 

– exhibition at gallery oslo8 in Basel
Opening: thursday june 6 2013, 6 pm
exhibition june 7 – august 24 2013

- Support Jiri Makovec
photobook
 FROM THE ISLAND

 

 

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MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE // gallery view http://miraprospekt.com/miraprospekt-group-exhibition-tete-berlin-march-2013/ http://miraprospekt.com/miraprospekt-group-exhibition-tete-berlin-march-2013/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:10:08 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3498 MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition

Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

at TÊTE art space in Berlin 15 march 2013

artist talks 20 march 2013 – Jan Zappner, Corinna Sauer and Holger Biermann

 

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group exhibition : MIRAPROSPEKT at TÊTE in Berlin http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-group-exhibition-miraprospekt-at-tete-in-berlin/ http://miraprospekt.com/upcoming-group-exhibition-miraprospekt-at-tete-in-berlin/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:24:29 +0000 http://miraprospekt.com/?p=3276 MP is part of the programm
„Fotografischer Frühling“
organized by hannah goldstein

infos at http://www.tete.nu

opening: 15 march 2013
gallery weekend: 16 / 17 march
artist talks: 20 march

TÊTE
Schönhauser Allee 161A
10435 Berlin / Germany

 

hannah goldstein
http://www.hannahgoldstein.net

 

MIRAPROSPEKT group exhibition
Photographs by Corinna Sauer, Sebastián Laraia, Jeffrey Ladd, Holger Biermann, Shinji Abe, Patrick Becker, Jiri Makovec, Dimitri Mellos, Richard Sandler, Gilles Roudière, Roger Minick, Jan Zappner, Georg Knoll, Andreas Pein, Jan Michalko, Jonathan van Smit, Jia Jia Zhang, hannah goldstein and Charlie Jouvet.

 

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