Diemar/Noble Photography presents 'Crazy God' - Photography by Yvonne De Rosa
In January 2010, DN Photography Gallery, London, presents the acclaimed 'Crazy God' by Yvonne De Rosa. Exhibition dates: 21st January - 6th March. See www.diemarnoble.com for more information.
[UKPRwire, Mon Jan 04 2010] On 21st January 2010, Diemar/Noble Photography will open its doors to the critically acclaimed & prize-winning ‘Crazy God’ by Yvonne De Rosa.
Crazy God:
The project resulted from the photographers' work as a volunteer during the 1990s in an old psychiatric hospital in Southern Italy, whose name and location remains anonymous.
Six years after the asylum closed down, De Rosa returned to photograph the building and already decaying rooms and corridors, in order to document the void left by the patients. This had been a place where people were often forgotten about, where orphans, the poor and young single mothers were amongst its patients. Some had no mental health problems before they entered the hospital, but developed them inside. The result is a sensitive, touching study consisting of portraits of the objects abandoned by the patients and their wall writings in sentences that are often astonishingly lucid. This moving series displays her understanding of the space and the people who once resided there.
Despite its past history, De Rosa captures a dilapidated beauty in her photographs which haunt and trigger the imagination.
Yvonne De Rosa:
Born in Naples in 1975, Yvonne De Rosa was trained at the Central Saint Martins College for Art and Design in London. In 2006 she was awarded the Women in Photography International prize and her works are part of the Arco Madrid collection. She lives in London where she works as a freelance photographer.
De Rosa is currently in collaboration with Hope and Homes for Children, an international NGO, which works across Europe and Africa. In her images, she depicts the crisis of identity that can face those in abject poverty and the hardships they have to endure on daily basis.
Exhibition dates: 21st January - 6th March, 2010
Gallery hours 11AM- 6PM, Tuesday through Saturday
Private View: Wednesday 20th January, 6:30PM, rsvp@diemarnoble.com to attend.
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About Diemar/Noble:
Londons newest photography gallery is a much needed addition to London's cultural life and photographic scene.
Within its large West End premises, Diemar/Noble stocks and exhibits a range of photographic work from the medium’s early masters to current and cutting-edge contemporary work. The gallery maintains an education department and conducts courses for collectors and photographers as well as portfolio reviews for students.
Artists include: Maeve Berry, Mischa Haller, Marcel Mariën, Yvonne De Rosa, Brittain Bright, George Rodger, Jonathan Olley, Marcus Doyle, Erwin Blumenfeld, Jennie Gunhammar, Chris Steele-Perkins, Lluis Artus, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Guy Bourdin, Jacob Aue Sobol
Diemar/Noble Photography was founded by Michael Diemar & Laura Noble.
Michael Diemar is a photographic consultant, lecturer and an authority in the fields of 19th Century photography and the 20th Century Avant Garde. Laura Noble is an artist, curator, writer and photographic consultant and the author of The Art of Collecting Photography.
