| City/Town: Basel
Event Type: Other
Meeting Point: St. Alban Vorstadt 64
With readings from my 2002 novel, Sibirischer Schwindel (Eichborn/Frankfurt). Hope you all can make it. Sully you are cordially invited to our
exhibition opening on:
Thursday, June 11 at 18:00
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Andreas Horvath
Stefan Sullivan
S U P E R P O W E R
H I N T E R L A N D S
SIBERIA
AND RURAL
AMERICA
SIDE
BY
SIDE
 
The mythologies of Siberia and rural America could not be further apart, one a catch-all term for banishment and frigid despair, the other a Hollywood dream of neighborliness and quaint town squares.
The photographer, ANDREAS HORVATH, who has traveled widely in both regions now places them side by side, and fleshes out surprising common ground: a shared frontier history of colonization and exploitation, the constant battle against the brute forces of nature . . . and perhaps a sense of melancholy over faded glory engraved in peoples´ faces
on both sides.
With all their hubris and bombast, their nuclear arsenals and showcase megacities, the two superpowers, Russia and America, would rather not have you peek into their backyard.
This exhibit, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the ART BASEL, offers a rare opportunity.
- Stefan Sullivan
 
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photos : Andreas Horvath (www.andreashorvath.com)
official exhibition opening : Thursday, June 11: 18:00 (Apéro, music)
introduction and reading : Stefan Sullivan (www.stefansullivan.com)
opening times : June 8 - June 14, 2009 / 11:00 - 19:00
location : Gallery St. Alban 64 (St. Alban Vorstadt 64, CH-4052 Basel)
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gallery is located within 5 minutes from the Kunstmuseum Basel
books available:
Andreas Horvath: Heartlands - Sketches of Rural America
Fotohof, Salzburg 2007
Andreas Horvath: Yakutia - Siberia of Siberia
Benteli, Bern 2003
Stefan Sullivan: Sibirischer Schwindel
Eichborn / Frankfurt, 2002
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+++ all books will be sold at the gallery and are also available at Amazon +++
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