Photos by
Lisa Kereszi, Yola Monakhov, Andres Pantoja
December 8, 2011 - January 5, 2012
Unusual perceptions: places, people, details caught by three artists in residence at La Macina di San Cresci.
A territory can be represented by aesthetic canons commonly associated with it or it can be investigated, gutted and captured in its underwear. Is this the approach to Chianti by Lisa Kereszi, Yola Monakhov and Andres Pantoja.
Lisa Kereszi was born in Pennsylvania. In 2000 she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She is now on the faculty as a Lecturer at the Yale School of Art, and as Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography. She has also taught at the International Center of Photography and School of Visual Arts and has been a visiting artist/critic at the Yale School of Architecture, NYU, Massachusetts College of Art, Parsons, School of Visual Arts, Vassar, UNC Chapel Hill, Eastern Tenn. State and for George Madison University. Her work is in many private collections and in that of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her work has been shown in group shows .Her editorial work has appeared in books and magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nest, New York, Harper’s, W, The London Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Details, GQ, Black Book, Jane, Newsweek, House & Garden, Penthouse, Nylon, zingmagazine, Flaunt, wallpaper* and others. She was included in the 2003 list of the 30 top emerging photographers by Photo District News, and was granted a commission to photograph Governor’s Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003, which culminated in shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall and an exhibition catalog.
Yola Monakhov was born in Russia .She studied comparative literature and Italian at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has a master’s degree in Italian literature from Columbia University. As a photojournalist, Yola Monakhov photographed in Kosovo, Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union while on assignment for publications including the New Yorker, New York Times, Newsweek, and other American and European magazines. In the past few years , having turned her attention to fine art photography , Monakhov has often returned to her native city of Moscow to photograph post-Soviet life . She graduated in 2007 with an MFA from Columbia University ‘s School of Art. Currently she teaches photography at Columbia University and Mercer College and is a contributing photographer for the New Yorker magazine. She has exhibited in the United States and Russia.
Andres Pantoja was born in Colombia. He obtained a Master in Arts programme at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Selected recent exhibitions include a homage to the late Colombian performance artist María Teresa Hincapié, exhibited in the Salón Nacional de Artistas in Cali, Colombia, Equipaje Vacío, Faculty of Arts Degree shows, Universidad Distrital, Bogotá, Contemporary Photography in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, where he also forms part of the permanent collection, Tercer Encuentro Internacional de Producción Artística en Formato Digital, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, Tercer Salon de Arte Bidimensional, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá, and Primer Salón Cuerpo Arte y Medicina, Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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