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HELMUT NEWTON: I LIKE STRONG WOMEN<\/em><\/p>\n Helmut Newton<\/strong>\u00a0is without a doubt one of the most controversial artists of the 20th century. His photographs, initially documenting fashion, eventually became provocative works of art. Photographing models, even dressed in accordance with the latest trends, quickly bored the ambitious artist interested in constantly pushing the boundaries forward – which we will be able to see clearly in the retrospective of\u00a0<\/span>Helmut Newton’s<\/strong>\u00a0works at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Toru\u0144.<\/span> HELMUT NEWTON, Gunilla Bergstr\u00f6m over Paris, Paris, 1976,<\/em> In the spaces of the Centre of Contemporary Art, we will see photos of models taken for various editions of the\u00a0<\/span>“Vogue”<\/span>\u00a0magazine. Here, we can already see a preview of the artist’s later fascinations. The position of the body, background elements and often the smallest details are a harbinger of changes that can be seen from under the illusion of photos from the magazine for housewives. The ones from the initial period of his career, often made against a neutral, white background, despite the minimalism characteristic of the 1960s aesthetics, hide the prophecy of the artist’s later concepts of the body in the deformed positions of the models.<\/span> HELMUT NEWTON, Sie kommen (dressed), French Vogue, Paris, 1981,<\/em> The photo exhibition will be traditionally accompanied by a film review, which will include documentary films whose protagonists are famous photographers of the world of fashion and art: the title artist of this year’s exhibition,\u00a0<\/span>Helmut Newton<\/strong>\u00a0(Germany),\u00a0<\/span>Lene Marie Fossen<\/strong>\u00a0(Norway) and\u00a0<\/span>Inta Ruka<\/strong>\u00a0(Latvia). The screenings will serve as a pretext for meetings and discussions with special guests. Together with the creators and experts, we will consider the phenomenon of portrait photography and the ways of showing the body and sexuality in contemporary culture.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibition accompanying the 28th edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2020 International Film Festival, Toru\u0144, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n When:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>October 16 – March 28, 2021<\/span> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 28th edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival in Toru\u0144 will be accompanied by a retrospective exhibition –\u00a0Helmut Newton: I Like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[525,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wiadomosci-energacamerimage2020","category-energacamerimage2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23968"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24002,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23968\/revisions\/24002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n The exhibition will be divided thematically and will consist of over 200 photos. Several categories, among which we can find fashion, nudity, humor and portraits, illustrate all the tendencies in which\u00a0Helmut\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Newton<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>created. Visitors will also have the chance to watch documentary films about the artist screened in the CoCA\u2019s cinema and attend meetings with representatives of the world of fashion, photography and film.<\/span>
\n The works shown in Toru\u0144 are the essence of\u00a0<\/span>Helmut Newton’s<\/strong>\u00a0style. First, we observe classic fashion photographs in which the body is only used to present the outfit. Then, a breakthrough takes place in\u00a0Helmut\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Newton’s<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>approach – the body becomes an autonomous element of the performance. With the help of ubiquitous eroticism, the artist expresses himself on the subject of culture and customs that he sees in a clearly decadent manner. Nudes, performed in elegant interiors, are simultaneously juxtaposed with dangerous objects that gravitate towards the dark side of our nature. Domination or enslavement used in\u00a0Helmut\u00a0Newton’s<\/strong>\u00a0frame refer to the cult of the body that prevailed at the end of the 20th century and continues to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HELMUT-NEWTON-Gunilla-Bergstr\u00f6m-over-Paris-Paris-1976-\u00a9Helmut-Newton-Estate-courtesy-Helmut-Newton-Foundation-1024x683.jpg\")
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\n \u00a9Helmut Newton Estate, courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n
\n In\u00a0Helmut\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Newton’s<\/strong>\u00a0portraits, we will also see cruel irony aimed at perfectly created images from the world of high-life magazines – from the fascinating, tragically endearing photos of outstanding characters related to the film (Leni Riefenstahl, Billy Wilder), dictators who set trends in the fashion world (Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint-Laurent), to the celebrities of these times, wandering around the nooks and crannies of the great world (Paloma Picasso).<\/span>
\n In photographs taken at the end of his life,\u00a0<\/span>Newton\u00a0<\/strong>replaced human bodies with mannequins. By treating our bodies in this way, taking the effects of retouching as a model, we become victims of an artificial reality which we let ourselves be enslaved to, similarly to\u00a0Newton’s\u00a0<\/strong>photographic “models”. It is a trap in which we voluntarily find ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HELMUT-NEWTON-Sie-kommen-dressed-French-Vogue-Paris-1981-CHelmut-...-1024x1009.jpg\")
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\n \u00a9Helmut Newton Estate, courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n
\n <\/span>Opening of the exhibition and press conference:<\/strong>\u00a0October 16, 2020 (Friday)<\/span>
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\n <\/span>Curator:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Matthias Harder<\/span>
\n <\/span>Co-curator:<\/strong>\u00a0Marek \u017bydowicz<\/span>
\n <\/span>Coordinators:<\/strong>\u00a0Agnieszka Swoi\u0144ska, Renata Sargalska<\/span>
\n <\/span>Exhibition Partner:<\/strong>\u00a0Helmut Newton Foundation<\/span>
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\n Main Sponsor:<\/strong>\u00a0Tumult Foundation
\n Exhibition Producer:<\/strong>\u00a0Marek \u017bydowicz<\/span>
\n <\/span>Main Partner:<\/strong>\u00a0Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region<\/span>
\n <\/span>Co-organizers:<\/strong>\u00a0Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, City of Toru\u0144<\/span>
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\n Project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund within the Regional Operational Programme of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region for the years 2014\u20132020.<\/span><\/p>\n