"Biennale-2010": Peter Lindbergh
ARTinvestment.RU   19 марта 2010

Yesterday evening, CEH "Manege" exhibition opened by Peter Lindbergh /Peter Lindbergh «Invasion". Kino

yesterday in CEH "Manege" exhibition opened by Peter Lindbergh /Peter Lindbergh «Invasion". "Cinema", held in the Moscow International Festival "Biennale 2010". For the public exhibition is open from today.

presents works from the collection of the author (Paris), with the support Culturesfrance.

Peter Lindbergh was born on November 23, 1944, in the town of Lissa. Lives and works in New York, Paris and Arles.

Since 1980 Peter Lindbergh - one of the most popular fashion photographers of the world. Works in black and white technique, using figurative language upward its roots to early German cinema and the dance culture of the 1920's.

Childhood Lindbergh took place in Duisburg (North Rhine - Westphalia), where he later worked as a decorator showcases for supermarkets " Karshtadt "and" Horten ". At age 18 he moved to Switzerland, then to Berlin, where he studied at night at the Academy of Arts. hitchhiking to Arles in the footsteps of his idol - Vincent van Gogh. made a trip to Morocco and Spain, lasted for two years ; returned to Germany and studied painting at the Art Institute of Krefeld (North Rhine - Westphalia).

In 1969, while still a student, first exhibited his work in the famous "Galerie Denise Rene /Hans Mayer." Conceptual art has become the latest stage in his passion for painting.

In 1971, Lindbergh turned to photography. For two years he worked as an assistant Düsseldorf photographer Hans Lux. Since 1973 he worked independently as a photographer in Düsseldorf. In 1978, the magazine Stern, a number of fashion photos that have received international recognition. In the same year, Lindbergh moved to Paris. First, he collaborated with the Italian edition of Vogue, then with British Vogue, French, German and American, then worked with Marie Claire, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure, and Rolling Stone.

In 1992, he signed a contract for four years with the U.S. edition of Harper's Bazaar (New York). At the same time he took off for brands: Giorgio Armani , Jil Sander, Prada, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein and created portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich, and many others.

In 1992, Lindbergh took his first documentary films (60 min.) "Models - film, with Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patits, Stephanie Seymour and Cindy Crawford. Subsequently, there is also another documentary (" Inner Voices, 1999) about Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio.

In 1996 in Los Angeles, Lindberg has created music videos for Tina Turner's "I miss you." In 1988 he was awarded the "The prize for the highest achievements in fashion photography, New York, in 1990 and 1991, Lindbergh received the Grand Prix and Gold Medal at the International Photography Festival of Fashion in Budapest and Barcelona. In 1995 and 1997 in Paris, he was named best international fashion photographer "- winner of the award jury, composed of 400 elected members, consisting of people who play a significant role in the world of fashion and in photography. In 1996, Lindberg was elected an honorary member of the German ADC; in the same year won a prize in the Raymond Loewy design" ( major European design awards). In 1996 he made a well-known Pirelli calendar. On Lindbergh lifted a number of documentaries: "The poet glamor" (60 min., ZDF); «Essay on the PL (45 min., VH -1); "PL Portrait" (60 min., Paris Première & Centre National de la Cinématographie).

«Peter Lindbergh began working in Paris at about the same time as Paolo Rovers, sometimes working with the same magazines. And yet, his work began to develop in a different direction: the spectacular black and white photographs, rich contrasts, reflecting, as he himself says, his "melancholy German expressionistic beginning." The drama of his photographic series - the result of passion in cinema: his works are full of allusions to the work of many directors, from Fritz Lang to Jim Jarmusch, simultaneously reflecting his admiration of such diverse photographers as Lartigue or Blumenfeld ».

Martin Harrison

March 20 in the club We Are Family Disco Hotel (Lubyansky Ave, 15, p. 2, m. "China Town") from 15:00 until 19:00 Peter Lindbergh hold a master class , before the start of which will be presented to a film about the famous photographer "Travel diary" Jean Michel Vecchio. Mandatory pre-registration and payment ( mdf.ru ).

exhibition in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" (Manege Square-d ', 1) is open to the public from March 19 to June 27, 2010. Working hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12.00-21.00, Monday - closed.

Source: Press Release