Galerija Fotografija

Eric Emo: Playing on the other side

Date Artist Title

maj 3, 2012
Diana Lui, Euro Rotelli
Milan Image Art Fair

mar 30, 2012
Jane Štravs
American Express

jan 25, 2012
Milan Jaros
In the capital of concrete

dec 12, 2011
Eric Emo
Playing on the other side

nov 17, 2011
Uroš Abram
Recreation

okt 5, 2011
Metka Vergnion
Spiritual Garden

avg 30, 2011
Lottie Davis
Memories and Nightmares

jun 13, 2011
Euro Rotelli
The Body The Soul

maj 4, 2011
Walter Carone
Walter Carone 1920 - 1982

apr 6, 2011

Ira photographing

mar 8, 2011

From the Galerija Fotografija Collection

jan 26, 2011
Andrew Testa
The End of Balkania; Kosovo 1999-2009

dec 13, 2010
Marc Riboud
Huang Shan, Capital of Heaven & others

nov 10, 2010
Janez Pukšič
Polaroids

sep 30, 2010
Jane Štravs
Too much, too little

avg 30, 2010

Montenegro in the magic eye of princess Xenia

jun 17, 2010
Jan Saudek
The Divine Comedy

mar 9, 2010
Herman Pivk
PHOTOGRAPHS

jan 12, 2010
Jaka Babnik
We are dogs! 12.1.2010 - 23.2.2010

nov 5, 2009
Tihomir Pinter
Treasure: 5. 11. - 31. 12. 2009

okt 2, 2009
Paul Serrada
et in arcadia ego : 2.10. - 3.11.2009

sep 15, 2009
Žiga Koritnik
The Lake

sep 4, 2009
Angelika Sher
Twilight sleep

jun 16, 2009
Sheila Metzner
Time Line

apr 24, 2009
Roger Ballen
Boarding House

feb 12, 2009
Wilhelm Heiliger
Wilhelm Heiliger

nov 26, 2008
Galerie Remixx, Graz:
Galerie Remixx, Graz: Fine European Vintage Prints and Photo – Collages

okt 15, 2008
Metka Vergnion
Silence

jun 21, 2008

Museum Summer Night

jun 17, 2008
Sarah Moon
Circus

maj 7, 2008
Euro Rotelli
L’Amour et Psychè

apr 14, 2008
Bojan Radovič
Icon

mar 17, 2008
Igor Andjelić
No Room for Memories

feb 6, 2008
Sputnik
At the Border

feb 4, 2008
Aleš Bravničar
Miniverse

nov 23, 2007
Antonio Spinoza
Forever

okt 8, 2007
Diego Andrés Gómez
Diego Andrés Gómez

sep 14, 2007
Nobuyoshi Araki, Ralph Gibson, Nan Goldin, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff
Masters of Erotic Photography

avg 28, 2007
Yenny Huber
48stunden / Ljubljana, Vienna, Melbourne

jun 7, 2007
Thijs Wolzak
Real Photographs

maj 17, 2007
več avtorjev
City Art

apr 6, 2007
Tomaž Gregorič, IRWIN, Jane Štravs, Trie in Aleksandra Vajd&Hynek Alt
Not-quite/not-right: histories, bodies and concepts in conteporary photography

nov 28, 2006
Bryan Adams
Portfolio

nov 9, 2006
Milorad Krstić
Budapest

okt 9, 2006
Marjan Pfeifer
Nudes and Saltflats

sep 29, 2006
Elliot Erwitt, William Klein, Ralph Gibson, William Wegman, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin
American Photography Week

jun 29, 2006
Aleksandra Vajd, Hynek Alt
Manwoman Unfinished 2001-2006

maj 11, 2006
Boris Gaberščik
Ordo ab chao

apr 4, 2006
Diana Lui
Trees, Individuals and Sexuality

feb 16, 2006
Boštjan Pucelj
Granny

jan 16, 2006
Archipenko, Chagall, Christo, Cruz-Diez, Girbes, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Soto, Vasarely, Warhol, Wesselman, Doisneau, Gibson, Gorman, Klein, Modotti, Newton, Riboud, Taylor-Wood, Sieff, Wegman
Art & Photography

nov 24, 2005
Janez Pukšič
Na oko

nov 18, 2005
Robert B. Haas
An Aerial Vision of Africa - Book Presentation

nov 18, 2005
Janez Vlachy
Sakura Yokohama

sep 22, 2005
Stojan Kerbler, Alenka Vidrgar, Dragomir Bole, Dragan Arrigler, Lado Jakša, Božidar Dolenc
Today About Yesterday

avg 30, 2005
Paul Lowe
Brazgotine

jun 22, 2005
Stephan Lupino
The best of Lupino / book presentation

jun 9, 2005
Franci Virant
Havana-Paris (2004-2005)

maj 9, 2005
Edi Šelhaus
60 Years of Victory Against Fascism

apr 14, 2005
več avtorjev
Hasselblad Masters

mar 10, 2005
Stephan Lupino
My Angels

jan 31, 2005
Jane Štravs
Road Movie

nov 26, 2004
Helmut Newton
Original Photographs

nov 19, 2004
Joco Žnidaršič
Lipizzaners

okt 28, 2004
Tomo Jeseničnik
Skeletons

okt 14, 2004
več avtorjev
Vodan

sep 16, 2004
Jože Suhadolnik
NSK 1984-1999

avg 24, 2004
Sibil Slejko
Iz konjske duše

jun 17, 2004
Matjaž Krivic
Silent Spaces

maj 6, 2004
Marko Jamnik
Biomasa

apr 8, 2004
Bojan Brecelj, Saša Petejan
Palestine

mar 31, 2004
več avtorjev
Art of Jack

mar 15, 2004
Neca Falk
Photographs

jan 23, 2004
več avtorjev
Opening Exhibition

Special thanks for the realization of the exhibition

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Playing on the other side

12.12.2011 - 14.1.2012

Playing on the other side

RODIN/BOURDELLE/EMO

The exhibition will be opened by H.E. Ambassador of the French Republic, Ms. Nicole Michelangeli

Opening of the exhibition: 12.12.2011 at 19h

12.12.2011 at 18h

the lecture RODIN AND PHOTOGRAPHY

will be given by Hélène PINET, Head of the Service for Archival and Research, scientific advisor responsible for photography collections in Museum Rodin, Paris.

“Quite a number of years have passed since I first began learning my profession in the photo laboratories of the department of photography and black-and-white image development. During my time spent in the dark room, I discovered the world of images from its dark side. My study and experiences with photography are primarily connected to my acquaintance with Jacqueline Guillot, photographer for the French monthly fine arts publication Connaissance des Arts, whose assistant I was honoured to be for many years. Thus, I was able to become familiar with the nature of work in museums, galleries, houses, abodes and castles alike. I learned how to set up proper lighting, how to frame the shot and how to reveal just enough content for the photograph to complement a published text.

Only having acquired this experience did I venture into professional waters as a freelance photographer. Chance meetings during the outset of my career led me to take numerous portraits of actors, artists and musicians. This allowed me to cooperate with the musical group Les Arts Florissants led by William Christie, with the choir Groupe vocal de France and with theatre groups In Extremis and TJP in Strasbourg. During that time I also ran several secondary-school workshops (in the secondary schools Finosello in Ajaccio and Rimbaud in Douai), preschool workshops, and educational seminars in the French Cultural Centre in Jakarta intended for professional photographers and students of photography – where our fifteen days of intensive work culminated in an exhibition of photographs made in situ.

The task I was entrusted by Museum Rodin introduced me to an unconventional observation of bronze sculptures. I was instructed to photograph details of all the inscriptions on the sculptures and their circumference. As I rotated the works of art, I discovered their hidden facets. When one, for example, observes a sculpture that represents a visage, one never thinks of looking at its back side. We simply look at what we are expected to see, the familiar. But I was enticed by the other, obscure side. Step by step, I recorded the memories of the sculptures’ interior. In those spaces, which exist as a negative of the sculpture, the essence of the matter and the creation we are witnessing may be found, the intimacy of the sculpture. Different faces altogether arise from the protrusions and impressions in the bronze. Radiography allows us to witness the inside of our bodies, MRI the inside of our organs. The same holds true for the plaster moulds used to cast bronze. Insight into them offers exploration, observation, understanding of what remains hidden to the casual glance, what lies beyond the outer image. It has to do with the observing, photographing and re-interpreting of their reality. These are no longer functional objects but unique shapes that tell a different story. For the photographs that present the works of Rodin, I used black-and-white with a grey colour scale, which enabled me to establish a certain distance, a different view, a metaphor of reality. Soon after, I discovered the works of Bourdelle. I was aware of the relation between these two artists, and so I wished to also treat the latter’s sculptures and plaster moulds as well: the theme was thus similar, although I this time used colours and worked in a different time frame. I took the photos of Rodin’s sculptures during the limited time planned in the contract, while the Bourdelle Museum afforded me the luxury of an abundance of time. The violence expressed by the colours in these photographs speaks of the chemistry of bronze, of the creative process, and reveals a rich world that rivals the smithy of the god Vulcan himself. The shapes formed by the plaster are abstract and may practically be seen as a contemporary sculpture in itself. The casts are made independent, and the interior of the moulds now remains barren. They exist only through their plastic reality.

For the past three years, I have been working as a photographer for the agency “La Parisienne de Photographie” and spending time in the museums of the city municipality of Paris, where I photograph art collections and materials for the preparation of catalogues. I explore the diversity of worlds: Musée d’Art Moderne (Museum of modern art), Petit Palais, Cognacq-Jay, Carnavalet, etc.”

Eric EMO

EXHIBITIONS

2011: »Mascarades« Galery Taiss, Paris.
2011: »Black Blanc Rouge« Galery NEC, Paris.
2007: »Le spectre des jardins« Foundation Coubertin.
2006: »Corps séquence« Galery NEC, Pariz.
2003: »Le jeu de l’envers« Exhibition in the frame of »Spring of museums« in the Musée
             Rodin.
          »Hommage à Kafka« Installation in the Ateliers de l’Escaut, Brussels.
          »Crânes« Galery Domi Nostrae, Lyon.
2002: »Le souffle des blancs« Galery Polaris, Paris.
          »Face(s).« Galery Polaris, Pariz.
2001: » Photosynkyria« , Thessaloniki.
1999: »Il était une fois« Galery Gisèle Linde, Basel.