The Inside Out Centre for the Arts
The Inside Out Centre for the Arts is founded by the Roger Ballen Foundation and is located on 48 Jan Smuts Ave, Forest Town, Johannesburg. Its goal is to promote African photography and art through exhibitions and educational programmes. The Inside Out Centre officially opened in March 2023.
Visit the website: Inside Out Centre for the Arts
Contact Details:
+27 87 700 5998
Current & Upcoming Events
Exhibitions
Ballen by Ballen, GALLERIA GIAMPAOLO ABBONDIO, 25 May - 2 September 2024
BALLEN BY BALLEN
Roger Ballen
May 25, 2024 – September 2, 2024
Opening: Saturday May 25, from 11 am to 7 pm
GALLERIA GIAMPAOLO ABBONDIO
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 7 – Todi (PG)
Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio invites you to:
“Ballen by Ballen”, photographic exhibition by the artist Roger Ballen that opens Saturday May 25 in Piazza Garibaldi 7, Todi.
Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950 and has lived and worked in South Africa since 1982. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, began with the documentary photography field but evolved into the creation of distinctive fictionalized realms that also integrate the mediums of film, installation, theatre, sculpture, painting and drawing.
Ballen describes his works as “existential psychodramas” that touch the subconscious mind and evoke the underbelly of the human condition. They aim to break through the repressed thoughts and feelings by engaging him in themes of chaos and order, madness or unruly states of being, the human relationship to the animal world, life and death, universal archetypes of the psyche and experiences of otherness. Through his unique, complex visual language, and universal and profound themes, the artist has made a lasting contribution to the field of art.
Eulogy, 2004
Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He has published over 25 books and recently Thames and Hudson published his book Ballenesque, Roger Ballen – A Retrospective, a major book of his collected works. In the last few years he has held over fifty exhibitions around the world. His work is on display in numerous museums and in public and private collections.
Visitors, 2020
GalleriaGiampaoloAbbondio – P.za Garibaldi 7, 06059 Todi (PG), Italia tel +39 0753765324 info@giampaoloabbondio.com
Introduction
My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.
I often question whether the face I see in the mirror is mine, and where my thoughts come from. ‘Reality’ is a word that has no meaning to me; it is unfathomable. I would rather express the enigma behind this word than ponder its fundamental nature.
The compositions are very formal. They are simple; they are clear. But inside there is a theatre, a complexity that reflects the human condition in some way.
