ICP announces Triennial exhibition - International Center of Photography

The International Center of Photography (ICP) in of recent origin York has announced a of recent origin initiative, the "ICP Triennial" exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States. This inaugural circumstance has the thematic focus and title "Strangers," and is intended to "explore the social world from one side images resulting from encounters with nation unknown to one another, in one as well as the other public and private situations."

At a pres briefing announcing the Triennial, ICP Board President Raymond J McGuire called the stir "reflective of the commitment of the staff ... and board" to contemporary photography. ICP's Ehrenkranz Director, Willis ("Buzz") Hartshorn, noted ICP's new capital improvements and program expansion, and called the Triennial "a representation of [ICP's] commitment to contemporary photography internationally."

Four renowned photography curators comprise the selection team curating this initiative-ICP Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator Brian Wallis, Senior Curators Christopher Phillips and Carol Squiers and Digital, Media Curator Edward Earle. These curators and other ICP exhibitions staff have been seeking photo-based work from around the globe for more than a year, traveling to international art facts including the Stockholm (Sweden) Art Fair, the Yokohama (Japan) Triennial, the Basel (Switzerland) Art Fair and the Photo Biennal at Centro Imagen in Mexico City, as well as conducting studio visits in of that kind locales as Beijing, Berlin, Frankfurt, London, novel York, Paris and Tokyo.

Wallis called the Triennial "the greatest in quantity ambitious project ICP has undertaken as an exhibition, by dint of far." He elucidated the impetus behind the cast saying, "the big story of the year is the use of photography in contemporary art, and called the initiative "an attempt to assess and address these fresh directions." Wallis explained that the Triennial will at hand not only established photographers on the contrary will also "represent and reveal for the first time more [i]or[/i] less emerging and new photographers" who have not previously received wide attention in the U Forty to 50 artists will be showed by approximately 200 works of art including photography using traditional and digital processe multimedia installations and video. The Triennial will utilize all of the museum's galleries as well as a number of other sites around the neighborhood and the city.

Several artists have been confirmed for this exhibition. They include German video artist Matthias Muller; Justine Kurland, who will be documenting utopian communities around the US; American public way photographer Joel Stemfeld, exhibiting his fresh body of work, "Passing Strangers"; Paris-based Yto Barrada, who explores issues in her homeland of Morocco; Olivo Barbieri of Italy, who photographs the alienating environments that are created by dint of postmodern urban architecture; and Chien-Chi Chang, a Chinese photographer who has documented Chinese mental patients in a series titled "The Chain."

The "ICP Triennial: Strangers" will lay open in September 2003. For more information visit www.icp.org.

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