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Kohei Yoshiyuki, Untitled, 1971, From the series The Park,
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. © Kohei Yoshiyuki.
Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

Larry Clark, Billy Mann, 1963, gelatin silver print, 11 x 14
inches. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

EXHIBITIONS

This fall, Presentation House Gallery hosts concurrent
exhibitions by renowned photographers Larry Clark and Kohei
Yoshiyuki, curated by Helga Pakasaar.

The exhibitions, which run from September 10 until October 30,
feature photographs that were originally conceived as photo
essays in book form: Larry Clark's Tulsa, published by Lustrum
Press in 1971; and Kohei Yoshiyuki's book Document: Park, first
published in Tokyo in 1980.

Tulsa has attained a reputation as one the most influential
photographic documents of the past 50 years, due in no small
part to its enduring capacity to shock. The book is an incisive
portrait of Clark's society in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot between the
years 1963 and 1971. The book's intimate portrayal of shadowy
dramas inflected by rampant drug use, loaded guns, and teenage
sex revealed a previously undocumented aspect of American
society. Tulsa's synthesis of social documentary and subjective
autobiography has been highly influential. This exhibition of
vintage prints and a film presents an opportunity to reassess
its impact today.

Presentation House Gallery will also screen Larry Clark's 2005
feature film Wassup Rockers at 9:30 pm on September 21 at the
Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway, Vancouver).  read more
[http://presentationhousegallery.org/emails/newsletterfall2011.html#wassup]

Yoshiyuki's photographs, taken at night in public parks in and
around Tokyo between 1971 and 1979, capture the illicit semi
-public sexual encounters of straight and gay partners, and the
voyeurs who stalked them. Shot surreptitiously and blindly in
the dark with infrared film, these mysterious images of
surveillance implicate not only the photographer and his
subjects, but us too, and in the process of trying to decipher
the murky scenes, we become spies.

In conjunction with these exhibitions, we are pleased to host a
book launch for Vancouver photographer Stephen Waddell's new
book, Hunt and Gather, on October 20 at 7:30 pm at the gallery.
Published by Steidl (Germany) with a text by the eminent art
historian Michael Fried, Hunt and Gather features the first
comprehensive view of Waddell's photographic practice.

Please join us to celebrate this special occasion including book
signing and a conversation between Stephen Waddell and
Presentation House Gallery curator Helga Pakasaar about
photography books.  read more
[http://presentationhousegallery.org/emails/newsletterfall2011.html#waddell]

On October 27 at 7:30 a discussion in response to the exhibitions
will focus on questions about the embedded photographer with
Clint Burnham, Farah Nosh, and Catherine Soussloff.  read more
[http://presentationhousegallery.org/emails/newsletterfall2011.html#embed]

OTHER NEWS

This fall, we eagerly anticipate the release of Jeans, a new co
-publication featuring vintage images by Swiss photographer
Karlheinz Weinberger.  read more
[http://presentationhousegallery.org/emails/newsletterfall2011.html#jeans]

Also launching this fall is Cranfield and Slade: 10 Riot Songs, a
coloured vinyl LP featuring songs recorded live in concert at
The Candahar Bar on February 19, 2010.  read more
[http://presentationhousegallery.org/emails/newsletterfall2011.html#riot]

Not Photographs, which took place at Satellite Gallery, featured
new work by Vancouver based artists Damian Moppett and Andrea
Pinheiro, both of whom use photographs as canvases on which,
through a variety of means, new artworks are built. While
alluding to histories of collage and montage, Moppett's and
Pinheiro's "painting/photographs" hint at a new hybrid form
emerging in response to digital image manipulation techniques.

This fall, Presentation House Gallery is coordinating the tour of
Models for Taking Part, an exhibition curated by Juan A. Gaitán
that premiered at Presentation House Gallery in the spring.

This exhibition brings together media works by international
artists Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacová, Renzo Martens, Tobias
Zielony, and Artur Zmijewski. An adaptation of Models for Taking
Part is currently on display at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery,
Toronto through to December 11. 2011. The exhibition is
scheduled to travel to Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum in
Alexandria, Egypt in the spring of 2012.

Presentation House Gallery is also pleased to be attending this
year's sixth annual New York Art Book Fair from September 30 to
October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A
preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th.
Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200
exhibitors from 20 countries, the NY Art Book Fair is the
world's premier event for artists' books, contemporary art
catalogues and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines.
Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers,
antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from
more than twenty countries. In collaboration with Bywater Bros
Editions, Toronto, this will be Presentation House Gallery's
fourth appearance at the fair.



film screening     Larry Clark

Wassup Rockers

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 at 9:30pm

THE RIO THEATRE, 1660 EAST BROADWAY, VANCOUVER

Larry Clark

Wassup Rockers, 2005

Rated R

35 mm film, 111 minutes

TICKETS: $5 AT THE DOOR

Larry Clark's enduring fascination with the lifestyles of urban
and suburban teenagers has been the focus of a world renowned
photographic practice as well as a number of feature-length
movies, including his groundbreaking 1995 film Kids. In
conjunction with the exhibition Larry Clark: Tulsa, currently on
view at Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, we are
pleased to present a screening of Clark's 2005 film Wassup
Rockers.

Like much of Clark's work, Wassup Rockers offers a compelling
blend of fact and fiction in its intimate look at a group of
Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South
Central Los Angeles. However, instead of conforming to the hip
hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, the group wears
tight pants, listens to punk rock, and rides skateboards. When
they travel into Hollywood and Beverly Hills to meet local rich
girls, they attract the attention of the police, jealous
boyfriends, and nervous parents.

Book launch     Stephen Waddell

Hunt and Gather

BOOK LAUNCH OCTOBER 20, 7:30PM

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY

Stephen Waddell

Hunt and Gather

Hardcover: 96 pages

11.5 x 10.1 x 0.7 inches

Publisher: Steidl

PRICE $50

Stephen Waddell is a prominent Vancouver photographer. Since
focusing his artistic practice on photography in the late 1990s
he has exhibited widely, most recently in Jeff Wall: The Crooked
Path, and is in international collections. In 1998 he moved to
Berlin, returning to Vancouver ten years later. He currently
teaches photography at Emily Carr University and is represented
by Monte Clarke Gallery in Vancouver.

PANEL DISCUSSION      Exposed

Three perspectives on issues

of voyeurism in photography

October 27 at 7:30PM

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY

Join us for a discussion responding to The Park and Tulsa
exhibitions with cultural critic Clint Burnham and
photojournalist Farah Nosh.

Clint Burnham teaches in the Department of English at Simon
Fraser University. He has written recently on Ken Lum (Camera
Austria) and Brian Jungen (Grove Dictionary of Art). His book
The Only Poetry that Matters: A Reading of the Kootenay School
of Writing is being published this fall by Arsenal Pulp.

Canadian-born photojournalist Farah Nosh moved to Iraq in
September 2002 where she was based for 11 months. As one of the
few western freelance photographers working under the regime of
Saddam Hussein, her images were quickly picked for publication
by several North American and British publications. Farah
continues to return to Iraq and remains committed to exposing
the human face of the Iraq war.

Catherine Soussloff is Professor and Head of the Department of
Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British
Columbia. Her most recent book is The Subject in Art:
Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern (Duke University Press,
2006) and other recent areas of publication include performance
theory, visual culture and theories of media.

PHG PUBLICATION     Karlheinz Weinberger

Jeans

Karlheinz Weinberger

Jeans

Hardcover:108 Pages

with colour offset printing

14.75 x 9.5 inches

PRICE $45

Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) was a Zurich factory worker who
moonlighted as an amateur photographer, and through the 1950s
and 1960s produced a stunning aggregate document of Swiss teen
rock'n'roll subculture. Jeans is a facsimile of a portfolio
Weinberger designed and assembled in the mid-1950s and features
over fifty individual portraits of young men wearing blue jeans.
Within this near-ethnographic study, Weinberger's own libidinal
investment is mixed with a broader post-war European fascination
with an article of clothing whose scarcity and close association
with American pop stars went beyond the realm of fashion
statement. In this context, blue jeans were a badge of status,
differentiation and rebellion.

Jeans extends from the exhibition Intimate Stranger held at
Presentation House Gallery this past summer. Intimate Stranger
was organized by the Swiss Institute, New York, and Jeans is
produced in collaboration with them, the Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Bywater Bros Editions, Toronto. It
will be distributed by D.A.P. NY and available for sale in
October at Presentation House Gallery.





Album      Cranfield and Slade

RIOT SONGS

Coloured vinyl LP

Ten Riot Songs' ten tracks are cover versions of songs penned
between 1978 and 1981, including such punk rock anthems as the
Clash's White Riot, D.O.A.'s Smash the State and the Dead
Kennedys' Riot. Riot Songs is Cranfield and Slade's dystopian
follow up to their 2009 LP Sun Songs, which featured optimistic
versions of songs marking the day's progression. According to
New York based poet Eileen Myles, who wrote the album's liner
notes,"….it's interesting because though I loved listening to
these tracks especially while dangerously driving in the rain
away from Vancouver thinking I'm going to die the fact of their
doing the thing of this is absolutely what counts."

Based in Vancouver, Cranfield and Slade consist of visual artist
Kathy Slade and artist/musician Brady Cranfield. Riot Songs
features Rich Trawick (Bass), Kathy Slade (Vocals), Christa Min
(Guitar), Chris Harris (Guitar and vocals), Brady Cranfield
(Drums).

Kathy Slade also collaborates with Brady Cranfield on their
ongoing project The Music Appreciation Society. The Candahar Bar
is a project of Theo Sims, and was curated by Reid Shier and
Michael Turner.



CALENDAR OF EVENTS     September

September 21, 9:30 PM

Wassup Rockers at Rio Theatre

September 30 to October 2

New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Queens, New York

October

October 20, 7:30 PM

Book launch for Hunt and Gather by Stephen Waddell

October 27, 7:30 PM

Exposed: Three Perspectives on issues of Voyeurism and
Photography

with Clint Burnham, Farah Nosh and Catherine Soussloff

November

November 12, 2011 to January 8, 2012

Janice Kerbel

Ballgame



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Larry Clark exhibition has been made possible with generous
donations from the Washington Art Consortium Collection: Henry
Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Museum of Art,
Washington State University, Pullman; Northwest Museum of Arts
and Culture, Spokane; Seattle Art Museum; Tacoma Art Museum;
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham;
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham. The Tulsa film is
courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.

The Kohei Yoshiyuki exhibition has been made possible with
generous donations from from Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

Presentation House Gallery grateful for the ongoing support from
our funders. The Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts
Council, the City of North Vancouver and the District of North
Vancouver, the North Vancouver Arts Office, BC Gaming Commission
, Metro Vancouver and Yosef Wosk Foundation.

Satellite Gallery is made possible through the generous support
of the Michael O'Brian

Family Foundation.

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