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Alexander Rodchenko was a driving force within the Russian Avantgarde and ranks among the great renovators of photography in the first half of the 20th Century. He was already well-known as a painter, sculptor and graphic designer when he challenged traditional notions of photography in 1924 by proclaiming that „Experimentation is our duty!“.

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Filmed in 2012 at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, artist Ann Hamilton discusses her installation the event of a thread, which occupied the Armory’s cavernous drill hall. Hamilton, whose artwork often deals with the connection between text and textiles, was present at the Armory every day during the installation’s one-month run.

The exhibition ON BEAUTY consists of two photographic series by the American artist Cara Phillips. Her work focuses on the question of beauty, an idealized concept of beauty and narcissism. In the series of portraits titled »Ultraviolet Beauties«, Cara Phillips makes use of the same ultraviolet technology as dermatologists and beauty surgeons do to reveal the second skin lying below the epidermis.

"In one way or another, our perception of the world is influenced by multiple factors that not necessarily need to be defined. Domination of sensuous impressions corrected by meditation, or, at other times, thought dictating the emotions and moods.