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Purple Hearts - New Exhibitions and Signings
Columbia University School of Social Work
Artist presentation and book signing
March 7 -- 6-8pm
New York City
Exhibition through June 29
Aiice Austen Musuem House
Opening March 18 - April 29
Staten Island, New York
Published by Trolley in 2003, 'Purple Hearts' follows the lives of young US veterans who have returned from Iraq, with life-altering injuries, and asks them how they see the war they were sent to fight, now that they are back. Nina was recently awarded first prize in the Portraits section at World Press Photo.
Purple Hearts - signed copies available here
World Press Photo
German prosecutors issue arrest warrants for thirteen CIA operatives
The CIA operatives have been linked to the kidnapping and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The arrest warrants were announced at a time that the US practice known as extraordinary rendition is coming under increasing scrutiny around the globe.
DemocracyNow.org via GNN.com
TROLLEY AUTHORS AT WORLD PRESS PHOTO
Three photographers with Trolley publications were announced as winners in this year's World Press Photo.
Paolo Pellegrin won 1st prize in General News category for his work in Lebanon 2006 (above), which is to be published in a book by Trolley in June of this year.
Nina Berman won 1st prize in the Portraits category for her portrait of an injured marine returning from Iraq to marry. Berman is the author of 'Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq' (Trolley, 2003)
Purple Hearts - signed copies available here
Massimo Berruti won 2nd prize in Contemporary Issues stories. He is one of the five young Italian photographers whose work is the basis of 'Made in Italy' (Trolley,2006), which examines the social divide and fall of the country today.
Made in Italy
Nina Berman in Art and War exhibition with Jenny Holzer
War Stories
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery
Massachusetts
February 11–March 12, 2008
Reception: Tuesday, February 12, 5–7 p.m.
This exhibition brings together contemporary artists whose work examines the politics, events, and consequences surrounding war. For the current Iraq war, perhaps more than any prior American war, truth and interpretation of facts lie at the center of the conflict.War Stories features photographs by Nina Berman, paintings by Jenny Holzer, and the American première of a 10 channel video installation entitled 9 Scripts from a Nation at War by a collective of artists.
War Stories is curated by Lisa Tung, Director of Curatorial Programs and Professional Galleries at MassArt.
Monsanto dumped toxic waste in the UK
Evidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people. According to the agency it could cost up to £100m to clean up a site in south Wales that has been called "one of the most contaminated" in the country.
read full Guardian online article here
Carl de Keyser exhibition at Robert Koch Gallery
March 1st - April 28th 2007
Carl de Keyser, author of 'Zona' (Trolley 2003) is currently having an exhibition of his photographs, from the Zona and God Inc. series, at Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco. Zona captures surreal images of life as a detainee in the post-Soviet prison camps, the gulags captured in glorious technicolour.
Robert Koch Gallery
Zona by Carl de Keyser
Save Chechnya Campaign Film Festival
'Chechnya: God, Nation and the Native Land'
Saturday 10th March 2007 12-6pm
Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, 27-29 Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7JL.
The programme will bring together footage and images from inside Chechnya, documentaries, films, Chechen-friendly organisations and personalities and books and literature on Chechnya.
Doors open at 12pm and the programme will begin at 1pm. Stanley Greene's award-winning exhibition, 'Open Wound', will be on display during this time.
Save Chechnya Campaign
Open Wound by Stanley Greene
FOOD FOR YOUR EYES 3
Trolley Books will be presenting at Kinokho studio in Paris, the second of its series of slideshows
Tuesday 18th March
from 8pm
24/32 Rue des Amandiers,
75020, Paris
image from 'Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy', by PierPaolo Mittica
TROLLEY AT LONDON BOOK FAIR 2007
Trolley will be presenting our first two titles to be distributed by Prestel:
Saturday 14th April
MARIOMANDALAPARTY
Trolley Gallery, 6pm
to celebrate the launch of Mario Tauchi's Mario Mandala Colouring Book. Mario Tauchi will also be signing books at the Prestel stand during the fair.
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS - Lecture / Book Signing
27 March 2007, 7pm
Royal Geographic Society, London
Speaking at the prestigious Royal Geographic Society, Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths will offer a gripping view of war and peace in South East Asia, from the time of his seminal publication Vietnam Inc. (1971) to today. Philip will also be signing copies of his books Agent Orange (Trolley 2003) and Viet Nam at Peace (Trolley 2005) following the lecture. Guests will also be invited to view an exhibition of images taken by street children in Vietnam and orphans in Cambodia, trained in photojournalism skills by PhotoVoice. All proceeds of the talk will go to Photovoice to help them continue with their work running similar projects around the world.
Limited tickets available: to book visit www.photovoice.org or call 020 7033 3878 or
WORLDWIDE READING IN MEMORIAM OF ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA
TUESDAY 20TH MARCH, 7PM
Trolley subscribes to the appeal for the worldwide reading of reports on Chechnya by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead on October 7th 2006. Organised by the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics and the Berlin Literature Festival, Trolley Gallery in London will be staging readings tomorrow at 7pm, with journalist and writer Sophie Parkin and Richard Strange.
Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics
Lawrence Watson - The World is Yours
Thursday 26th April-27th May
From April Trolley will collaborate with Maverik Showrooms on a series of exhibitions across the two spaces on 73a and 68 Redchurch Street, opposite to where Trolley Gallery is situated.
The first solo exhibition in London by Lawrence Watson will present a selected retrospective of photographs, spanning twenty five years of the best in the music industry.
Carrie Levy talk in SVA New York
Tuesday 27th March at 7pm
School of Visual Arts amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street, NY.
The author of '51 Months' (Trolley 2005) will be giving a talk on the book and her recent work and exhibition.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID. Tickets available on the door.
PhotoLondon 2007
31st May - 3rd June
This year at the new venue of Old Billingsgate Market, Trolley will be presenting the work of Philip Jones Griffiths, Alixandra Fazzina, Gordon McHarg and Alexander Shields.
Crosses - New York exhibition
Opens Friday 18th April
Lott Gallery@drivein24
443 West 18th Street
New York
Exhibition continues until May 19th
This exhibition follows the critically acclaimed book by Carmine Galasso, published by Trolley, of 30 black and white portraits and interviews of adults in the US who were abused by Catholic clergy as children. Recently chosen for the PDN annual as Best Book of 2008. The exhibition coincides with the visit of the Pope to New York, and a candlelit vigil will be held outside the gallery by the victims to mark the occasion.
CHERNOBYL - THE HIDDEN LEGACY exhibition in Rome
s.t. foto libreria galleria
via ombrellari 25
Rome
16-20 April
There is currently an exhibition in Rome of Cherobyl - The Hidden Legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica. On Wednesday 16th April there will be a presenation by Mittica at s.t. of the exhibition and the book, and a discussion with Tiziana Faraoni, photo editor of L'Espresso. This exhibition coincides with the 22nd anniversary of Chernobyl.
PAOLO PELLEGRIN WINS GOLD MEDAL ROBERT CAPA AWARD
Paolo Pellegrin was awarded yesterday the Gold Medal Robert Capa Awards for his work covering the conflcit in lebanon last year. Trolley will be publishing Pellegrin's work in a book to be released this June, 'Double Blind - Lebanon Conflict 2006.'
Philip Jones Griffiths - Middle Years
Trolley is proud to present the first UK solo show of Philip Jones Griffiths. Opening on Thursday 31st May at Trolley Gallery, London. This show will centre around much unseen work by Griffiths, world-renowned for his work covering the conflict in Viet Nam, here presenting Britain in the 1960s and 70s.
Exhibition continues until 24th June 2007
Robert Montgomery - Derniers Jours. Paris May 08
May 31st - July 26th 2008
Galerie Nuke
11 Rue St Anastase
Paris
Paolo Pellegrin - Double Blind
opens 22nd June
CVZ Contemporary
446 Broadway
b/t Grand and Howard
New York
This new exhibition presents Pellegrin's award-winning work of the conflict in Lebanon in 2006, coinciding with the launch of Trolley's forthcoming publication 'Double Blind.' The exhibition will support Save the Children (Lebanon).
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David Rickard
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DAVID RICKARD AT GOETHE INSTITUTE, LONDON
Exhaust 19-06-08
until 19th July 2008
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7
Admission free
On the 19-06-08 David Rickard spent a 24-hour period breathing out his exhaled air, via a respiratory mask, into a series of large silver foil balloons.The final arrangement of balloons demonstrated consumed space in the form of a long vapour trail of balloons that rose up the three floors in the stairwell of the Goethe Institute, London. The performance demonstrated our daily consumption of fresh air, and in a quantifiable manner revealed our constant demand for fresh air and our active relationship with the space that surrounds us.
Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy / Chernobyl l'eredità nascosta
Cinema Visionario,
via Asquini 33 Udine
9 giugno - fino agosto
9th June - end of August
There is an exhibition in Italy of 'Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy' by Pierpaolo Mittica in Udine, Italy, until the end of August 2007.
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories of New South Africa
Venice Biennale 2006
10.09.06 - 19.11.06
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Facts, Fictions and Stories
10.11.06 - 18.02.07
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin will have photographs depicting the landscape of Johannesburg at the Arsenale of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale . This will be followed by an important solo exhibition of work from Mr Mkhize (Trolley 2004) in November at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. It will be their first solo show in The Netherlands.
Venice Biennale 2006
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories of New South Africa
Abigail Fallis - Beauty and the Beast at Stourhead
Abigail Fallis's sculpture Quo Vadis is currently part of the exhibition Beauty and the Beast set in the grounds of the National Trust's Stourhead. The concept of the exhibition is to juxtapose alongside the beauty of the grounds the beast of contemporary art, and see how they interact. Fallis's new work here is reminiscent of her recent solo show at Trolley Gallery, where she produced a smaller sized series of Papier-mache hands for her installation The Fast Supper, based on Da Vinci's famous Last Supper. Fallis is currently exhibiting in Newcastle and Paris and will be part of Trolley's stand at The Zoo Art Fair this October.
18th International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan
2 - 17th September 2006
Visa Pour L'Image
Stanley Greene (Open Wound), Thomas Dvorzak (Taliban), Paolo Pellegrin (Kosovo - The Flight of Reason) and Kadir van Lohuizen will be exhibiting at this year's Perpignan their work on Katrina at Ancienne Université.
Europe's Darkest Corner - Photographs from Chechnya 1994-2005
October 2006 - February 2007
ICTE, 25 Washington Street, 4th Floor Brooklyn, New York
Stanley Greene, whose book Open Wound, Chechnya 1994-2003 was published by Trolley in 2003, is part of the forthcoming exhibition at the International Center for Tolerance Education in New York on photographs on Chechnya over the years 1994-2005. Heidi Bradner, Thomas Dworzak (Taliban, Trolley 2003), Mikhail Galustov and James Hill are the other photographers forming the exhibition.
The United States' role in shaping the global response to terrorism.
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, reflects on what happened in the five years since 9/11.
Human Rights Watch Audio on Counterterrorism
DEMO THIS SATURDAY IN MANCHESTER
TIME TO GO
Across the country people are preparing to travel to Manchester this Saturday to demonstrate at the Labour Party conference which Tony Blair says will be his last. For most of his party, he can't step down as party leader soon enough. "He should go immediately. He is destroying the party," is how one Labour official summed up the situation in the Independent newspaper.
There will also be the Military Families Peace Camp, of families who have had loved ones lost under the Bush/Blair wars, and an alternative conference on Sunday 24th organised by Stop The War entitled "After Blair: Time For Change."
This will be the biggest demonstration in the North of England for decades, for more details visit STOP THE WAR
Coaches are also being organised from all corners of the country to manchester for details
Performance by Sharmila Desai to celebrate the launch 'Sristi'
Trolley Books is proud to announce the release of our latest contemporary art title, 'Sristi' by Sharmila Desai. To celebrate the launch there will be an event at Deitch Projects on September 27th, where Sharmila will give a short performance. 'Sristi' illustrates with colour and black and white photographs plus illustrations and essays, the art and practice of Sharmila Desai, which is derived from ancient Indian worship and fused with contemporary art and spirituality. Available to buy now from Trolley Books, please visit
Sristi by Sharmila Desai
Al Jidar - The Wall by Giorgio Palmera
22nd September 2006
Galleria Santa Cecilia
Rome
Giorgio Palmera will be presenting his new book 'Al Jidar - The Wall' along with a DVD of the project this Friday at Galleria Santa Cecilia in Rome. Al Jidar documents the largest wall in the world, one that cuts through Palestine dividing communities and families in its wake.
Zoo Art Fair 2006
Trolley Gallery will be presenting the following artists this year at Zoo Art Fair : David Rickard (pictured Sleeping Cell), Abigail Fallis, Mario Consiglio, Vedovamazzei, Robert Montgomery, David Fryer, Gordon Mcharg, Nina Ghel, Katy Lynton, EJ Major, Sarah Pickstone, Bobo Ivancich.
A global crisis of understanding
The Sunday Times
Book Review
by William Dalrymple
In 1817, James Mill wrote a history of India several hundred pages long in which he confidently dismissed the country’s culture as primitive, superstitious, fanatical and degenerate. The fact that Mill had never visited India, knew no Indians and spoke no Indian language gave him no pause for hesitation over his conclusions...
for full article click here
Goronwy Rees - The Unforgiven Spy
Goronwy Rees was a brilliant intellectual whose admission that he had spied for the Soviets along with Guy Burgess led to a spectacular fall from grace. Duncan Higgitt looks back at the life of the former principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and asks if it is time to reassess his reputation
Full article here
ANNA POLITKOVSKAJA SHOT DEAD
On Saturday 7 October, the first report of the murder of Anna Politkovskaja, the 48-year-old Russian journalist and champion of Chechen victims, came through from Interfax, the Moscow News Agency.
Times interview with her literary agent Toby Eady 15/10/06
Her final unfinished report as featured in The Independent 13/10/06
Read Anna Politkovskaja's letter to Putin on how to resolve the conflict in Chechnya, featured in Trolley Catalogue 2005
HIM FOR SALE AT ZOO ART FAIR
ALSO PRESENTING
HIM BOOK
101 portraits of HIM
HIM a life size sculpture of Charles Saatchi
by ROBERT GORDON MCHARG III FRSA
“It’s the biggest action figure I’ll ever own, it’s all about the artist collecting the collector, a David and Goliath battle over power and punch lines,” says McHarg.
Trolley presents at this year's Zoo Art Fair, held at the Royal Academy in London, HIM and HIM BOOK by Gordon McHarg.
12-15th October
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S
GABRIELLE TORSELLO RELEASED
The Italian photographer was released on Friday 3rd November after being held hostage in Afghanistan for 23 days.
Read Jan Pronk's blog on Darfur
Former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Sudan, where he was leading the UN peace keeping operation (UNMIS - www.unmis.org), Pronk was expelled from the country yesterday on the basis of his blog.
Jan Pronk blog click here
Paolo Pellegrin wins W. Eugene Smith Award
Pellegrin is the winner of the 2006 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
Chien-Chi Chang - The Map
4/11/06 - 30/12/06
Chi-Wen Gallery,Taipei
Taiwan
The photographer and author of The Chain, is currently showing in Tapei, Taiwan an exhibition entitled 'The Map.'
see The Chain here
Chi-Wen Gallery
Gaza under siege
11/8/2006 6:00:00 PM
A week-long non-stop Israeli bombardment of Gaza towns and villages left over 70 Palestinians, mostly civilians, dead, with Beit Hanoun the focus of the Israeli offensive.
"They (Israeli forces) put explosives at the doors of the houses - and then they enter on the women and children. Everybody is terrified in their homes."
Al Jazeera.com
Rumsfeld replaced after poll loss
Israeli jets
Israel’s flights over Lebanon almost caused a “catastrophe” last month, when French peacekeepers were “two seconds” away from firing on Israeli fighter jets, the French Defense Minister said, according to AFP.
www.aljazeera.com
Chechnya: Research Shows Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture
Human Rights Watch said that its documentation of more than a hundred cases of torture, taken together with research conducted by leading Russian human rights groups, strongly suggests that torture in Chechnya is commonplace. Human Rights Watch also said that this finding, together with de facto impunity for torturers, strongly suggests a widespread and systematic practice of torture in Chechnya.
Human Rights Watch report
UN rights council slams Israel’s abuses in Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution expressing concern “over Israel's continued violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people."
AlJazeera.com
IRAQ-The hidden story (The Truth)18+
Nick Waplington - solo show at The Whitechapel
Double Dactyl
12th December - 20th Jan 08
Nick Waplington will open a solo exhibition at The Whitechapel, London in December. This exhibition will feature new work including large format, digitally manipulated images, and an installation of his photographs in the surrounding area of the gallery.
Trolley Books are publishing a book 'Double Dactyl' featuring this new work to be released in December and presented on the 12th December opening at The Whitechapel.
African leaders agree to resolve Darfur conflict
Arab and African leaders held a mini-summit on Darfur in Libya, where they agreed to work together to resolve the conflict “without foreign intervention.”
AlJazeera.com
The Massacre at Beit Hanoun
Ha'aretz correspondent Gideon Levy described the situation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in a searing article on Sunday. He proposed, half seriously, that the Israeli colonies removed last year as part of Israel's so-called "disengagement" from Gaza should be returned because they would serve "as the last human shield for a million and a half residents who now comprise one of the most helpless populations in the world. Incarcerated, without any assistance, they are liable to starve to death. Exposed, without any protection, they fall prey to the Israel Defense Force's operations of vengeance."
Counterpunch.com
Sueytta from Youtube.com
PATTI SMITH PERFORMS HER SONG FOR LEBANON
On Sunday 26th November Trolley was honoured when Patti Smith spoke about and performed her song on Lebanon, Qana. This was the town in the south of the country which was attacked during the conflict of summer 2006, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, many of whom were children. Patti Smith's performance followed the opening of the exhibition at Trolley Gallery of Polaroids taken by Patti of objects and places inspired by poets and writers, entitled Sur les Traces. She had donated them to help raise funds and awareness of a forthcoming book Trolley is publishing on the Israel and Lebanon conflict of 2006, featuring the photographs of Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin.
images from Sur les Traces
MARK BLANCO
The tragic death of Mark Blanco at the beginning of December brutally cut the life of a brilliant man and dear friend. Mark was a vital part of many peoples' lives, who now want to have it made transparent exactly what took him so tragically away. His profound intelligence coupled with humility, creativity and above all humour, touched many. Always appearing with something to give or show or share, from a steak in his pocket to a rare book, magic trick or just to dip in and out of his vast knowledge of so many things, Mark was a unique spirit, whose untimely death has left many deepely saddened. He will be missed.
read the story here
Gallery Events
Affiliated Gallery Events
LE GUN - EXHIBITION AND LAUNCH OF #4
28th August - 3rd September
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London. E2 7ES
12-6.30PM
In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati,and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb.
The exhibition will run for one week and in that time a number of events such as music nights and short film screenings will be programmed, creating a temporary arts club. Highlights include collaborating with groups such as the the Strangeworks performance collective and screening the ‘Essentials’ programme of seminal short film curated by the Independent Cinema Office.
Past Gallery Events
Trolley events
Affiliated Events
Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy / Chernobyl l'eredità nascosta
Cinema Visionario,
via Asquini 33 Udine
9 giugno - fino agosto
9th June - end of August
There is an exhibition in Italy of 'Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy' by Pierpaolo Mittica in Udine, Italy, until the end of August 2007.
Save Chechnya Campaign Film Festival
'Chechnya: God, Nation and the Native Land'
Saturday 10th March 2007 12-6pm
Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, 27-29 Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7JL.
The programme will bring together footage and images from inside Chechnya, documentaries, films, Chechen-friendly organisations and personalities and books and literature on Chechnya.
Doors open at 12pm and the programme will begin at 1pm. Stanley Greene's award-winning exhibition, 'Open Wound', will be on display during this time.
Save Chechnya Campaign
Open Wound by Stanley Greene
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