Between November 2009 and January 2011, Slovakian photographer Martin Kollar spent extended periods of time working and living in Israel, building a photographic dossier on one of the most contentious geographical zones of modern history. Kollar's past, a childhood spent behind the Iron Curtain, echoed unexpectedly during his time in Israel. The delineated territories of today's Israel mirror the partition walls of Communist Czechoslovakia during 'normalisation'. Random police searches and detentions piqued Kollar's sense of constantly being under surveillance and the subject of suspicion. Field Trip establishes an opaque representation of the life and landscape of Israel. Military presence looms heavily and the images are punctuated with anxiety. Butchered animals combine with uncertain portraits of Israeli residents and leave the viewer unclear where the military landscape ends and the civilian land begins. The work in Field Trip is just that - the result of a trip, an investigative and inquisitive one, tinged with paranoia, the result being a beautiful, stark, often humorous and complex photographic diary of a well-trodden land. This traumatic album epitomizes frontline photography. Martin Kollar was born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovak Republic). He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava and has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he graduated. He has received several grants and awards, including the Fuji Film Euro Press Photo Award and the Backlight Photography Award in Finland. His work has been exhibited across the world, including Maison Europeen de la Photography Paris, France, Rencontres d' Arles in France, MOCA Shanghai China, Guandong Museum of Art in China and Month of Photography in Krakow. He has published two photography books, Nothing Special (2008) and Cahier (2011).

Field Trip

KOLLAR, Martin

MACK BOOKS

Brenner, Ewald, Kollar, Koudelka, Lee, Peress, Sheikh, Shore, Solomon, Struth, Wall, Waplington This Place This Place explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers, each of whom use photography to ask essential questions about culture, society and the inner lives of individuals. The photographers, all outsiders to Israeli and Palestinian society, represent an array of nationalities, cultures, and visual grammars; they are Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington As each artist pursues their own line of investigation, what emerges is a dissonant and startling portrait; together, the highly individualised works combine to create not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait, alive to all the rifts and paradoxes of this important and much contested space. This book accompanies a monumental exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton, which features more than 600 images, all newly-commissioned work, the product of four years of artist residencies. It includes an essay by the curator and extensive interviews with each of the participating artists. To accompany a touring exhibition: 24 October 2014 - 2 March 2015: DOX: Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague 14 May - 6 September 2015: Tel Aviv Museum of Art 15 October 2015 - 15 January 2016: Norton Museum of Art, Florida

This Place

Ewald, Wendy

Koudelka, Josef

Peress, Gilles

Brenner, Frédéric

Struth, Thomas

LEE JUNGJIN

Wall, Jeff

Sheikh, Fazal

Fox Solomon, Rosalind

Waplington, Nick, (Artists)

Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée, Martin Kollar's new work, Provisional Arrangement, considers that which is temporary in a world made up of provisional situations and solutions. "We are tenants of culture", wrote Nicolas Bourriaud, foreseeing a world of precarious inhabitation of ideas. "I grew up in Czechoslovakia during the Communist era," says Kollar, "and with the motto, with the Soviet Union for all Eternity - which has been one of my few experiences with eternity... People of my generation fight against the void left behind the abandoned dogmas." It is this world that Kollar turns to, one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties - to situations which reveal the disintegra-tion of permanences, capturing their fall into the provisional.

Provisional Arrangement

<p>"31st August 2019 ... from that moment on, the way I look at the world has changed. Everything has changed. Maria's untimely death, her decision to end her own life, has made a distinct cut, a sharp delineation of the before and after." - Martin Kollar After was formed in the wake of the death of Martin Kollar's partner, Maria. As time slowly went by after the cataclysmic event, Kollar cautiously started to browse through his photographic archive. He was returned to the years, months, and days they spent together by the scores of materials from trips they made to location-scout and film together. In their last two years together, they had visited various research centres and public institutes as they started to prepare and shoot 'Chronicle', the film they were to make together. These excursions into the past happened in various stages, from Kollar's original inability to bring himself to open the archive, through to periods of obsession during which he was unable to stop browsing through the multitude of photographs of his and Maria's past life. What gradually started to emerge from the pictures were hidden contexts and threads he had not seen before. Kollar started to assemble them, but not with the aim of reconstructing their life. Instead, he sought to express how the before transcends into the after; how the most anticipated events always find you unprepared.</p>

AFTER-MARTIN KOLLAR

<p>La fraîcheur, le souffle revigorant qui émane de la curiosité photographique de Martin Kollar bousculent les visions débilitantes et ressassées des ex-pays de l'Est pour proposer une sociologie joyeuse et décalée des mutations en cours.</p>

Nothing Special

Kerekes, Peter

Actes-sud

Vu a Paris

Ackerman, Michael

Petersen, Anders

Deschamps, Pierre Olivier

Strömholm, Christer

Engström, JH

Tunbjörk, Lars, et al

Panini

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