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SERENDIPITY
Dana Ramon Kapelian / Photography Exhibition

14 October - 02 November, 2011
Opening 14 October, Fri. 6:00pm

Gallery Gahoedon60
www.gahoedong60.com
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In this exhibition I bring together photographs shot in three different places in Paris.
All photos share a common word describing a happy incident, an unexpected event: Serendipity, a word as long as the flow of a river in spring, full of surprises. Common things we pass by daily without noticing, can get a different meaning, an instant of grace when captured.

The still lives were taken on a film set: L'affiche rouge by Robert Guédiguian. A film about the foreign resistance in Paris during the nazi occupation, 1942 - 1945.

In images from a contemporary construction site, sometimes I used blurs to show the poetry of inanimate object compositions, expressing how a piece of rope, a fence or a few wood blocks can become subjects in the eye of the beholder, instead of functional items or trash abandoned on the ground.

In The repetition, the gestures of three young dancers had an exceptional intensity. They dance as if they are praying, possessed, in a trance. In these photos I tried to capture the essence, the spirit flamenco.

If I had to define these three bodies of work in one sentence it would be:
all things have the meaning we attribute them.

DANA RAMON KAPELIAN

serendipity |ˌserənˈdipitē|
noun
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way : a fortunate stroke of serendipity | a series of small serendipities.

DERIVATIVES

serendipitous |-ˈdipitəs| adjective
serendipitously
adverb
ORIGIN 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”
Dana Ramon Kapelian

Visual artist, photographer, Iconographer, Artistic Director

Born in 1963 in Haifa, Israel
web.me.com/danakapelian


Biography
1986-1989 Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute
Winner of the Merit Scholarship in 1987
Winner of the Sobel Scholarship in 1988
1982-1985 Modeling and jewelry designer
1983-1989 Residences in London, New York, Santa cruz and San Francisco
1989-2010 Paris, France

Solo Exhibition
2011 Serendipity, Photography, Gallery Gahoedong60, Seoul, Korea
2001 Red, Painting, Manoir de la Roseraie, Grignan, France
2000 Housewives, Installation, Musea da Republica, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
1992 Depths, Paintings, Manoir La Roseraie, Grignan, France

Group Exhibition
2009 DISORDER, Installation, Atelier 13 Paris, France,
with Jeff Manzetti, Julianne Rose, Pucci de Rossi, Daniel Kapelian
2004 Boxes and Cages, Installation, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
1991 Contemporary Israeli Art, Paintings, Synthese Museum Munich and Ingolstadt, Germany

Editorial Projects
2011 The Ajumma Project Book + expo (in development)
2009-2010 The Age of Water (in development)
3 books (paper and digital) on the history of water and of men, economy, ecology and geopolitics of the water, solutions and innovations for the future of water.
A website with a collection of 100 short films. A documentary by reference 90 '.

The Gift (in development)
1 book on the customs and rituals of the gift, exchange, philanthropy and patronage through the ages and civilizations.

Direction Artistic, Iconography
2008-2009 100,000 Years of Beauty
A history of human beauty, from prehistory to the twenty-first century in 5 volumes, 1400 pages and 700 photos.
Written by 300 contributors from 35 countries directed by Elisabeth Azoulay. Published by Gallimard and Babylon Editions, with the support and participation of the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation.