MAGIC TRICKMay 2009

ATELIER REFLEXE &

COBERTURA PHOTO

MAGIC TRICKA Polaroid collection presented by l’Atelier reflexe ( France ) and CoberturA photo ( Spain )Curated by : Véronique Bourgoin

List of the Artists :

Véronique Bourgoin ( France )JH Engström ( Sweden )Martin Kippenberger ( Germany )Nina Korhonen ( Finland )Suzanne Pastor ( Republic Czech )Anders Petersen ( Sweden )Alberto Rojas Maza ( Spain )Juli Susin ( Russia )

For the young supported :

Manuela Bohme ( German ) Thomas Brosset ( France )Sophie Carlier ( France )Rodrigo Gomez Reina ( Spain )Josquin Gouilly Frossard ( France )Margot Wallard ( France )

and some anonyme polaroid with an erotic collection from Lumière des Roses Gallery, France.

Cobertura Photo www.coberturaphoto.com Narciso Campillo 4, 410001 Sevilla - Espagne

Atelier Reflexe www.bourgoin.name www.atelier-reflexe.org16, rue du ruisseau, 93100 Montreuil - France

« Magic Trick » is a collection of Polaroid pictures gathered by Vé-ronique Bourgoin, a French artist and director of l’Atelier Reflexe, founded in 1994 in Montreuil-Sous-Bois (Paris).

This collection shows a selection of pictures taken by European photographers who use Polaroid not as a specialty, but as a way to experiment through a unique and instant medium. It comprises works by experienced artists as well as anonymous photographs. It also presents pictures taken by young French and Spanish pho-tographers selected by l’Atelier Reflexe and Cobertura Photo, art institutes which support young photographers throughout the world.

At a time when digital techniques have set new standards both in amateur and professional photography, allowing photographers to gather a large number of pictures through virtual storage and print them almost instantaneously at home, one cannot help compar-ing these techniques with Polaroid. The latter can be considered both as the mould and the opposite of the former. It has a unique character and a raw quality revealed by the artist’s hands.

The intimacy, the magic and the uniqueness of this process, which brutally captures moments and fix them in a suspended space-time between past and future, gives a poetic and timeless quality to the work thus created, often beyond the conjuror’s will.

This collection, presented as a cabinet of curiosities, mixes to-gether different visions of artists and unknowns in order to offer an overview of the present use of Polaroid, in the artistic as well as in the amateur field.

Cobertura Photo www.coberturaphoto.com Narciso Campillo 4, 410001 Sevilla - Espagne

Véronique BougoinBorn on the 12th November 1964 in Marseille. Véronique Bourgoin graduates from the l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, and meets Juli Susin in 1987 with whom she shares a house in Montreuil sous Bois, later named the Fabrique des Illusions. Here, artists, historians and friends meet regularly and conceive of and direct artistic projects in the guise of publications, experimental films, events and exhibitions. The Fabrique des Illusions becomes a base and since 1989 welcomes a network of active and committed personali-ties from the contemporary art scene. In 1994, Véronique Bourgoin sets up the Atelier Reflexe spe-cialised in photographic research and artistic expression. Here where promotion and creation meet, she invites artists, photographers and key figures such as A. D’Agata, M. Ackerman, Nina Kor-honen, Friedl Kubelka, R.Ohrt, Gelatin, A.Kaminsky, Anders Petersen, …. to work with young pho-tographers. Publishing has always been a medium of expression in her personal research as well as a means to develop interventions with other artists. She actively participates with Silverbridge, directed by Juli Susin, since its creation, whereby the production of art books lead to international events with artists such as Jason Rhoades, André Butzer, Andreas Hofer, Ralph Rumney, Raymond Pettibon… In 2004 she obtains a grant from the European Commission “Culture 2000” and is in charge of the project “EX-IN” with her network of European partners. In 2005 she participates in the first issue of the review “Matière Première” published by Silverbridge and prepares with Filigranes, France, Reflexe X, an historical publication on the 10 years of the Atelier Reflexe. Of late she has been participating in Miami Art Basel with the Silverbridge project at the gallery Nomadenoase. Fol-lowing this successful event, the Contemporary Art Museum of Mexico takes on the project along with the gallery Hauser and Wirth, at the Contemporary Art Fair in April 2006. For the Fabrique des Illusions she has recently obtained the support of the European Commission for her project “EU Women” that she will direct with her European partners in 2006 and 2007. a This project will bring forth a publication and programme of travelling exhibitions in prestigious European sites. In May 2007, she’s doing a roadshow with performances and concerts in China with her group The Hole Garden. She currently lives in Montreuil.

JH Engström Born in Karlstad, Värmland in Sweden 1969. Moves to Paris with his parents at the age of 10. Moves back to Värmland, Sweden two years later.1991 he moves back to Paris on his own and works as an assistent to fashion photographer Mario Testino. 1993 he starts working as assistent to documentary photographer Anders Petersen in Stockholm.1997 he graduates from the Photography and Film department at Gothenburg Uni-versity. 1997 he also publish his first book; ”Shelter” (Bokförlaget DN) 1998 he moves to Brooklyn, New York and starts working on the ”Trying to Dance”-project. The year 2000 he travels throughout Europe and then moves to his native region, Värmland, where he continues working on the”Trying to Dance”-project. The book ”Trying to Dance” is published 2004 (Journal) 2004 he exhibits at Galerie VU’ and also starts working on a one-hour documentary about his friend and collegue photographer Anders Petersen for The Swedish Television. He exhibits throughout Europe. 2005 Engström have a one-man show at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg. He is also one of four shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Price. He starts filming his second documentary for the Swedish Television, a 30 minutes film. His third book ”Haunts” is published by Steidl the fall 2006. The ”Haunts”- project is exhibited at Galerie VU’ the fall 2006. He has recieved numerous grants and awards since 1994. He also holds workshops regulary. JH Engström lives and works in Södra Åby, Skåne, in the south of Sweden

Martin Kippenberger Born in 1953, Dortmund, Germany.From 1972 to 1976 he studies for a Fine Art BA degree at the Hamburg College of Art. He moves to Florence. In 1978 he goes to Berlin and becomes the manager of the famous “S.O. 36 hall venue” in 1977, he meets Werner Büttner, Albert and Markus Oehlen. In 1978, with Gisèle Capitain he founds the “le Kippenberger” where he exhibits the works of young artists. In 1980, he moves to Paris. In 1988, he participates in the Venice festival. In 1992, he is a teacher and the college of higher education in Kassel. In 1996, he is awarded the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis. In 1997, he participates in the Documenta X in Kassel the exhibition of sculptural projects in the cathedrals. Kippenberger wants to open new outlooks by means of ironic installations and images. In 2006 Martin Kippenberger’s first retrospective of his work is presented in Great Britain. Many of his productions can be seen at the London Museum, like the Selbstportraits series as well as a number of drawings from his series of hotel writing paper.

Nina KorhonenBorn in Tampere, Finland 1961.School of education, Stockholm, Sweden 1985-1987. Photographic education; Nordens Fotosko-la, Sweden 1987-1990. Has been working with workshops and teaching at several photo schools around Northern countries since 1990. Associated at Mira / Nordic Photos Archives, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden since 1981. Solo exhibitions ( selection ): 2009 Perspektivet Museum, Tromsö, Noeway, 2008 Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Danmark, 2007 Artotheque De Caen, caen, France, 2007 Galerie Sanat Merkezi, Diyarbakir, Turkey, 2007 The State Russian Centre of Photography, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 2007 Museum of Work, Norrkoping, Sweden, 2006-2007 Centre Culturel Suedois, Mois de la Photo, Paris, France. Books: 2004 Anna, Amerikan mummu, Journal Best Photobook 2004, Sweden, 1997 Minne.Muisto.Memory, Journal Nominated for Best Photobook 1999 Swedish Book Art 1997. Grants (selection ): 2008 Swedish Authors Fund, 2006 K.W Gullers Photostipendium, 2006 Association of Swedish Professional Photographers, Kaval-lastipendium, 2005 Sweden-Finland Culture foundation.

Suzanne PastorBorn 1952 in Chicago, USA.Study of Psychology at Northwestern, Harvard and Cornell Universities (1970-1975); Art and Pho-tography study at Art Institute of Chicago (1975-1978) and Kassel University, Germany (1981-1984). Work at George Eastman House, Rochester (1978-1981) and Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Cologne (1981-1985). In 1990 became co-founder and curator of Prague House of Photography. In 1996 founded Odephil Editions, Prague. Important exhibitions include Arles, Bonn (1981), Frankfurt, NYC (1984), Stuttgart (1985), Amsterdam (1988), Cheb, Brno, Klatovy, Enschede (1988), Israel, Prague, Sobotka, Frankfurt (1999), Prague (2001), New York City, Olomouc, Bruntal, Chicago Art, Art Frankfurt (2002), Jihlava (2004), Prague (2006, 2007). Her work is in the collections of the Mu-seum Ludwig, Cologne; Berlinische Galerie; BrooklyMuseum of Art; Charles University, Prague; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Myslbek Palace, Prague; Moravian Gallery, Brno; Musée Réattu, Arles; Eli Lemberger Museum of Photography, Israel; Museum of Contemporary Photograpy, Chi-cago; National Gallery of South Africa, Capetown; National Museum of Photography, Jindrichuv Hradec, Joan Flasch Special Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Bratislava FotoFest; Polaroid Corporation Europe and numerous private collections. She won first prize at Bratislava Fotofestival for Best Artist Book 2000 in Central and Eastern Europe.Lives and works as independent artist in Prague (1990-present).

Anders Petersen Born 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. 14 years old his family moved to Karlstad in Värmland, where he met the artists Karin Bodland and Lars Sjögren. In 1961 he stayed for some time in Hamburg in order to learn German and trying to write and paint. He didn’t take any pictures. Five years later he met Christer Strömholm and became a student at his School of Photography in Stockholm. Strömholm was not just his teacher but also a close friend. Their friendship influenced him for life. In 1967 he starts photographing a bar called Café Lehmitz in Hamburg, close to Zeughausmarkt. He was photographing there for a period of almost three years and in 1970 he had his first soloexhibition over the bar in Café Lehmitz with 350 photographs nailed to the wall. In 1973 he published his first book “ Gröna Lund ”, about people in an amusementpark in Stockholm. In 1974 he graduated from the Swedish Filmschool,Dramatiska Institutet, in Stockholm. In 1978 he published “Café Lehmitz ” in Germany. In 1984 the first book in a trilogy about locked instituations was published. The three books were about people in a prison, a nursing house, and a mental hospital. After photographing the mental hospital for three years he oriented himself towards a more free approach in a kind of diarylike photography.During 2003 and 2004 Anders Petersen was appointed Professor of Photography in the School of Photogra-phy and Film at the University of Göteborg, Sweden. He regularly has workshops and exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia and in the USA. He has received numerous grants and rewards since the seventies. In 2003 Anders Petersen was elected the “Photographer of the Year” by the Inter-national Photofestival in Arles. In 2006 he was shortlisted as one of four for the “ Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2007 ”. In 2007 he received the “ Special Prize of the Jury ” for his exhibition “ Exaltation of Humanity ” by the third International Photofestival in Lianzhou, China. In 2008 he received the “Dr. Erich Salomon Award” by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, Germany.Anders Petersen has his darkroom in Stockholm, Sweden.

Alberto Rojas MazaBorn in Seville Spain, 1971. He starts to get interest in Photography while he is studying History in University of Seville. 1995-2000. In 1996 he decided to focus in photography and made his first solo exhibition in Sala La Carboneria (Seville) with a work on La Habana. In 1999 and after a period in New York, where he participated in some workshops in ICP International Center of Photography, he made his sec-ond solo exhibition, NY taxis, in Arte XXI Gallery, Madrid.In 2000, the same work was selected for a collective exhibition In Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, and Escala Collection from Cajasol Founda-tion bought him the complete serie. In 2002, he founded Cobertura Photo as a space for activi-ties related to contemporary photography and located in Seville. In that period, he completed his formation as photographer after meeting with great photographers. In 2004, he introduced in cinema co-directing “El Americano”, a documentary film about Orson Welles and his relation with Spain. In 006/2007/2008 he coordinates the project EU Women supported by the European Com-mission with Atelier Reflexe/Fabrique des Illusions (FR), Support Agentur (DE), Agence Editoriale Internationale(CZ), Silverbridge (FR), Fotohof (AT). Anna, his work for this project was showed in Lodz Fotofestiwal 2007, New York Photofestival 2008 and CAF, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, 2008. At the present, he is directing “Camino In Verso” a documentary film about Ilan Wolff, a nomad photographer who work with Camera Obscura. He also work on two personal projects: El Gallo Combatiente y La Saca. He lives In Seville (Spain).

Juli Susin Born in Moscow on the 18th July 1966. He studies at the French National College of Art and Architecture in Paris. An indescribable art-ist, Juli Susin is an adventurer who, since his first exhibition in Paris at the age of 20, leads a continual exploration into the invisible layers of poetry and art. Since 1987, at 16, rue du Ruis-seau, Montreuil sous Bois, later known as La Fabrique des Illusions, he and Véronique Bourgoin welcome artists, historians and friends to devise and realise art projects in the form of publica-tions, experimental films, events and exhibitions. In 1990 in Prague he founds Prager Kreis with Gianfranco Sanguinetti where many initiatives are carried out in the spirit of the great Dadaists. He is also at the origins of the Atelier Reflexe, created in 1994 where, with Véronique Bourgoin they elaborate an educational programme on photographic expression as an art form. Juli Susin has always been interested in publishing and has created in turn several editorial projects with his long-standing associates, Ligne de Mire In 1998, followed by Cosa Nostra Expérimentale In 1989, Fab-rique des Illusions... and since 2001, the Silverbridge Editions with Roberto Ohrt, where he devises and publishes limited edition art books alongside international events with artists such as Jason Rhoades, André Butzer, Andreas Hofer, Ralph Rumney, Raymond Pettibon, Jonathan Meese… .Since 1992 he participates in many exhibitions as an artist in Paris, Marseille, New York, Gratz, Salzburg, Los Angeles... He works and lives between Paris, Berlin and Prague.

Manuela Bohme

Born in 1978, in Germany. In 2004 she moved to France for studying photography at University Paris VIII. Since 2006 she is working with “Atelier Reflexe”. In 2007 she becomes a member of the collective “ Paris - Berlin fotogroup ”. Actually she lives and works in Paris.

Thomas Brosset

Born in France in 1971.Trained as an ethnologist, he now works in multimedia and graph-ics. He has been working in photography for several years and is interested in the theme of anonymity.He starts the Atelier Reflexe in 2003.

Sophie Carlier Born in France in 1964.In 2003 she enters the collectivity Le Bar Floréal. Since 2001 she participates in the Atelier Reflexe in Montreuil. Exhibitions (2006-2002): Que faisons nous ensemble? a collective exhibition of the Bar Floréal at the MEP and at the gallery of the Bar Floréal.Collectives exhibitions as regards to the european projects of l’Atelier Reflexe: 2008 - 2007, “EU Women”, NYPH, photo festi-val, Ideal Glass Galery, New York, Centro Andaluz de la Fotogra-fia, Almeria, Cobertura Photo, Seville, RIP d’Arles, Nuit de la Roquette, Festival de film et photographie, Lodz, Instants Chavi-

rés, Montreuil; 2006-2005, “EX.IN” Galerie Maeght, Barcelone during the Primavera Fotografica; 2004-2001,collectives exhibitions Reflexe and projections : “Self women” at Studio 14, RIP-Voies Off d’Arles, Flèche d’or café, Confluence, Paris, Fotohof, Salzburg. In 2004 she participates at an exhibition at the Goethe Institute of Tbilissi in Georgia. Publications (2005-2002): Photographie; the Bar Floréal editions Créaphis; Ex.In a collective work edited by Fotohof (Salzburg); novel covers for Folio, Gallimard and Stock, Minotaure, Courrier International, Photo nouvelles, Elle, Psycholo-gie magazine, Télérama sortir, le édition a collective work edited by novel covers, brochure for the French national ministry of education, Agenda photo 2003, Berlingske Tidende (Danish daily paper), le Figaro, Libération, Zurban. Different projects in Russia, in Caucasia… Series of portraits and documentaries are on-going about the Chechen refugees in France. She just had a solo show in Genève in november 2008.

Young Photographs :

Rodrigo Gomez Reina

Born in Spain in 1962.Degree in law and art history. Cinema director and self-taught photographer. Photographic workshops: Fernando Romero, Al-berto Garcia Aliz, Alex Majoli,Antoine D’agata, F. Scianna... His photography leads to a self-discovery of the world rathethan a presentation of it.

Josquin Gouilly Frossard

Born in 1980 in Paris. Start to be interested in photography in 2000. 2002-2006 takes courses and workshops at the Atelier Re-flexe in Paris, where teachers included Anders Petersen, Antoine d’Agata, Jh Engström, Nina Korohnen and the artist and school director, Veronique Bourgoin. 2004 takes part of the Ex-In proj-ect with others students and europeans artists for exhibitions in Paris, Vienna and Barcelona. A book was published for this proj-ect by Silverbridge and Fotohof with the support from European Community. 2005 Josquin GF worked as intern in the production department Magnum Photo in Paris. 2007 moves to New-York start a personnal project. 2008 Next year he return to US with

also two artists from Paris and continues his project and travelling from New-York to San Francisco by car. Josquin lives and works his projects in Paris.

Margot Wallard

Born in 1978 in Paris.Since 1997 she got involved in the alternative Parisian circles, she organized exhibitions and animated studios about photographic creation. She executed a series of photographs on Rave parties a retrospective of which was presented at the Heart galley in Paris in 2004. In 1999, she joined the Reflexe studio. She tackled there the photographic research as an artistic way of expression. Since 1999, she participate each years to the program of exhibitions, projections and editions of the Atelier Reflexe : during the Interna-

tional Meetings of Photography in Arles, she organised « wild projections » throughout the town. Her photographies are exposed at galerie Jean-Pierre Lambert, Marion Meyer, Confluence, Studio 14 in Paris; In regard to the two european Reflexe’s projects “Ex In”, about « Public space - Private space », her works were published by the Fotohof editions and exhibited in the Maeght Gallery in Barcelona. For « EU Women » about women in Europe, her photographs were presented in Austria, Spain, France and Poland and were published in a collective edition by Fotohof & Atelier Reflexe. Her inspiration springs from her travels about the world and she has developped the thematic of illusion. She is now working on the theme of « urban excessiveness » in Asia wich where presented in 2008 at the b> Gallery in Roma and by the Atelier Reflexe for Eu Women project at the New York Photo Festival 08.

Anonymous collection by Atelier Reflexe

Founded in 1995 by Véronique Bourgoin with Juli Susin at Montreuil - Paris. The Atelier Reflexe, is an educational and artistic project which supports young and artist photogra-pher in experimental and unpredictable way of the creation.http://www.atelier-reflexe.org

Momo’s collection from Algerie

Stefanie Gattlen’s collection from Switzerland

Carlier’s collection from France

Brown Family’s collection from France

Young Photographs :

Anonymous Collections :

Galerie Lumière des RosesPhilippe & Marion Jacquier’s collection

Photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries : anonymous, amateur and “other images”.http://www.lumieredesroses.com

Silverbridge’s collection

Silverbridge was created in the year 2000 at Juli Susin’s initia-tive and in association with Roberto Ohrt and Veronique Bour-goin, as a workshop dedicated to artistic invention and explo-ration. Each of its founding members contributes works and ideas to the creation of a single universe under the triple hy-postasis of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur and Arianne’s thread.http://www.silverbridge.name

Ideal Glass Galery New YorkWillard Morgan’s collection

Ideal Galss Gallery is an interdisciplinary industrial place for de-velopment and presentation of unusual works.http://www.idealglass.org/about.html

New York Photo Festival 2009 - TABACO HOUSE :

Resses