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Darren Almond

"Fullmoon" and "Night+fog"

published at 27/11/2018
Fullmoon, exposition de Darren Almond pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2012 © D. Almond
Out of the two major photographic series presented in the Château galleries, the British artist Darren Almond provides us with a reflection on the notions of time and continuance, and also of memory – individual and historical alike.
In Fullmoon, the artist uses landscape as his main subject. Punctuated by continual references to painting (Constable, Turner, Talbot, Friedrich, et al.), this series of photographs taken at the dead of night and exposed to moonlight for 15 minutes each, delivers a range of unexpected images, all of them astonishing in their luminosity and remarkable poetic power.
The Night + Fog series was taken on the icy plains of northern Siberia. The dozens of photographs which comprise it picture petrified forests, austere charred trees, their shapes standing out on snow-covered landscapes, apparently devoid of any trace of humanity.

Biographical notes

Darren ALMOND
GREAT BRITAIN
 
 
Although born in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, David Almond finds his inspiration abroad. Using such diverse techniques as installations, sculpture and photography, the artist never ceases to examine our relationship with time and memory as he questions probes the possible materialisation of the phenomenon of continuance. Faraway regions, often no easy matter to get to, such as the source of the Nile or the Siberian plains, have enabled him to capture virgin landscapes, as if they existed beyond the reach of time. Since 1998, Darren Almond has also put together a series of photographs which are no less striking, Fullmoon, a number of which will be exhibited at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire in 2012.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
T-B A21 Collection, Vienna, Austria
Government Art Collection, London, Great Britain
Imperial War Museum, London, Great Britain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The UBS Art Collection, Miami, USA
Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, USA
The Coleccion Jumex, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
FRAC Auvergne, France
National Fund of Contemporary Art
FRAC Haute-Normandie, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Israel Museum, Israel
MoMA, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada
Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
CNAP, Paris, France
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York, USA
Queensland Art Collection, Australia
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Complete Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Galerie Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Nocturne, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
...between here and the surface of the moon, times 2, Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
...between here and the surface of the moon, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
 
2010
As It Is, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
The Principle of Moments, White Cube, London, Great Britain
Fullmoon@Eifel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen, Germany
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Darren Almond, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea 
 
2009
The Principle of Moments, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, Great Britain
Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen / Eifel, Germany
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks gallery, New York, USA
Sometimestill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Darren Almond, Xippas Galerie, Paris, France
 
2008
Nail to Nail, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Substitute, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London, Great Britain
Fire Under Snow: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, Great Britain
 
2007
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Night + Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
In The Between, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
 
2006
Take Me Home, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Darren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
2005
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Isolation, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
 
2004
If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
 
2003
11 Miles.....from Safety, White Cube, London, Great Britain
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Nightvision, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milan, Italy
A, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
2002
At Speed, Darren Almond and Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
2001
Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
Coming up for air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin, Germany
 
2000
Transport Medium, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Geisterbahn, The Approach, London, Great Britain
Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Great Britain
 
1999
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
 
1997
Darren Almond, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain
Darren Almond, White Cube, London, Great Britain
 
1995
KN120, Great Western Studios, London, Great Britain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, USA
Look, Xippas Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Snap, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, Great Britain
The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
8 1/2 thirteen artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola, Trussardi, Florence, Italy
Things are Queer, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
 
2010
Nature, Galerie Gerhardsen Gemer, Berlin, Germany
Let’s Dance, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sûr- Seine, Paris, France
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, Great Britain
Climax Redux, BAC Geneva, Switzerland
Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New-York, USA
Captured while Vanishing: Video Art in Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
 
2009
Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D’Art Moderne et Contemporain
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
Los tiempos de un, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
 
2008
Infinite Ice Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Albertina, Vienna Summer in The City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Berne, Switzerland
Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, China
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London, Great Britain
Collection as Aleph, Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Night: A Time Between, Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb Wills, Methuen and Milner Galleries, Royal West of England Academy, Great Britain
Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Climax, LOOP’08, International Festival and Fair for Video Art, Barcelona, Spain
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
The Cinema Effect: War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Implant, The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York, USA is
You Prison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom, and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
 
2007
Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphie, USA
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia
 
2006
Daren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Great Britain
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter Rove, Londres, Great Britain
Full House – Geschichte einer Sammlung (Faces of a Collection), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, USA
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Geisterbahn (1999), Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Caspar David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hambourg, Germany
The Black Show, David Patton, Los Angeles, USA
37th Art Basel: Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
 
2005
Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourists Eye, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
20: Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Great Britain World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Sequences, Q Arts Gallery, Derby, Great Britain
Bidibidobidiboo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Cavallerizza Chiablese e Salone delle Guardie, Turin, Italy
The Mind is a Horse Part II, Bloomberg Space, London, Great Britain
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
2004
Sequences, Peterborough Digital Art, Peterborough, Great Britain
Ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzbourg, Austria
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London, Great Britain
Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Die Neue Kunsthalle III: materiell – immateriell, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Geisterbahn (1999), 33rd Festival d’Automne, Passage du Désir – BETC, Paris, France
Biennial of Pontevedra, Pazo da Cultura, Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra, Spain
After Images: Kunst als Soziales Gedächnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Busan Biennale, Busan City Hall, Busan, Korea
Open Secrets: Something Old, Something New, Redefining the Boundaries of the Art Collection, Imperial War Museum, London, Great Britain
Other Times: British Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
 
2003
Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hambourg, Germany
Video Time, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Spirit of White, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Imagination: Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Autria
Outlook: International Art Exhibition Technopolis, Benaki Museum, Factory, Athens, Greece
Game Over, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
3rd Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum, Beckum, Germany
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Interludes, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Eden, La Coleccion Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Witness, The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
The Guest, Schwebebahn, Hertzliya Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
In Light: Video Projections by Eight Contemporary Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
 
2002
Melodrama, Artim, Centre Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo; Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
Happy Outsiders from Londres and Scotland, Pro Arte Institute, Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie ; Katowice City Gallery, Pologne ; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Video Zone – The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israël, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, Great Britain
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Great Britain
At Speed, with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
2001
10th Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Great Britain
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, USA
Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
 
2000
Out There, White Cube 2, London, Great Britain
British Short Film Festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London, Great Britain
Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, ParisApocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, Great Britain
Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Great Britain
 
1999
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Chronos and Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Cassel, Germany
So Far Away, So Close, Encore...Bruxelles, Espace Méridien, Brussels, Belgium
Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin, Italy
 
1998
View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo, Japan
Art Crash, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
 
1997
A Print Portfolio from Londres, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
Delta, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
 
1996
Art & Innovation Prize [winner], Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London, Great Britain
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great Britain
Exposition de Darren Almond pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2012 © D. Almond
Exposition de Darren Almond pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2012 © D. Almond
Fullmoon, exposition de Darren Almond pour le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2012 © D. Almond
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