mo·men·tum mōˈmen(t)om [noun] the strength or force that allows something to continue or grow stronger or faster as time passes.
Founded in 2017 by Vincent Milner, Momentum is a contemporary fine art gallery dealing exclusively in fine art photography. Based in Miami Florida the gallery represents mid-career and emerging fine art photographers from around the globe. Momentum curates and produces exhibitions in both galleries and international art fairs in London, Los Angeles, Miami, Stockholm, Mexico City, New York, and Hong Kong.
With a growing list of international artists representing several continents, these artists embody a vast and varied range of contemporary styles of photography, engaging the genres of cinematic narrative, landscape, documentary, and portraiture while drawing from conceptual themes and abstraction. Their respective work explores contemporary expressions of photography as an artistic technique.
"Something happens; It's a fleeting part of a second. It's up the photographer to capture that on film. Because once it's gone, it's like a dying day. It will never come back- Weegee
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH
MAY: NICK MEEK 3 BOARDERS3 Boarders 2019 40"x 50" $4,800 - Edition 5+2 Archival print ( Framing additional)
Nick Meek is a renowned British photographer and filmmaker. Growing up in the North of England, the short summers and slate-grey winter skies inspired him to create imagery that explores the possibilities of light,colour and space.
Much of Nick’s work is set in the USA, an ideal canvas with its diverse, spectacular scenery, vast landscapes and cultures. From the sculptural majesty of Monument Valley and Yosemite’s El Capitan, to a dusty street corner in Oklahoma, he seeks to capture a feeling, the sensation and resonance of a perfectly realized moment in time.Nick’s approach leaves us with images that we can interpret in different ways. In leaving aside preconceptions and partiality in the capture, the viewer is free to create his or her own narratives.
With a background in traditional printmaking techniques, Nick always works through the process from capture to the final result. “For me,it seems totally alien to have someone else print my images as so much of the colour ideas that are conceived at capture have to be translated from memory to the final print. Even though paper and ink batches change, I subtly adjust each piece, so that every image in the edition is utterly unique.”
Eschewing the tricks of digital manipulation, Nick has maintained an organic approach to his work, ranging from large format wooden plate to hand made camera bodies combined with digital backs. The intention is always the same: to achieve something that has meaning and power.
His imagery has an idyllic, almost dreamlike quality. Light, composition and a thrilling approach to colour combining to create something very much of this world, yet unquestionably other at the same time. Through objects, people and places are grounded in what is definitively real; there is always something enigmatic and timeless at play.
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH
APRIL : MEANWHILE AT THE WAITING ROOM- OLE MARIUS JOERGENSEN 2019 ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT 49” X 35” IN EDITION 1 OF 3 + 2AP $5000 -
KOSMIC MEMORIES
NEW SERIES BY VINCENT FOURNIERKosmic memories" reveals extraordinary architectures, veritable totems of civilization of the future erected as so many signs of a possible elsewhere. It is not by chance that this science fiction universe was born between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1980s, especially in the satellite and non-aligned countries of the former Russia. First of all, the obsession with the cosmos is an old tropism of the Russian imagination (Tsiolkovsky, Sputnik, Gagarin...) and with the rapprochement of the West, artistic creation frees itself from political dogmas. If all these buildings have different functions, commemorative, political, institutional, their forms testify to the same breath: the invention of a future imbued with science fiction. We can see flying saucers, space stations and a multitude of geometrical shapes from another planet. Built mostly in concrete and at the tops of stellar landscapes, a telluric power from elsewhere emerges from these monumental architectures. Their location, while often a place of memory, also coincides with dawn or dusk, with a lateral light that reinforces their strangeness. Brutalist, futuristic, utopian, mystical, esoteric beauty... between Tintin's 'Temple of the Sun' and the monolith from '2001, Space Odyssey', these sentinels embody the dream of a future that is always to come.
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH-
March -Vincent Fournier- Brasília- Facade of the National theaterA Time Capsule
My work on the city of Brasilia comes from a mixture of fascination and nostalgia for the stories and representations of the Future. Indeed, the city and capital of Brazil designed by Oscar Niemeyer, and which was built in 4 years in the middle of a desert, embodies the vision of the future of in the 1960s. The "pilot plan," Conceived in 1957 by the planner Lucio Costa, coincides with with The Beginning of the space age and the first artificial satellite of Earth: Sputnik. This was t he golden age of the space age, and the city of Brasilia, with its air of flying saucer-like architecture that seemed to have landed in the middle of nowhere, shows the nostalgia and the dream of a future frozen in time. The case is unique in its size and scope, an entire city, and by its state of conservation, the pilot plan of the city has remained unchanged because of its UNESCO World Heritage designation. Brasilia, a fossilized modernist temple in a utopian future, asserts itself as a time capsule.
I used the city as a backdrop for this series of work, one in which its own inhabitants were part of the staging . During my travels I kept coming back to the stories of Jorge Luis Borges and the strange empire whose map covers the city; (Fictions, 1946), by Dino Buzzatti and the idea of time on the run (The Desert of the Tartars, 1940), or the movie, “The Truman Show”, by Peter Weir (1988) whose hero lives in an illusion. Finally, we must also mention the breath-taking and crazy beauty of the city of Brasilia where absolutely everything is composed with the same writing: linear, precise, minimal, fluid, radical, aerial, monumental, musical…
Part of the series “Brasilia” is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (text available on the MET website) and the LVMH collection in Paris. ”
Vincent Fournier, 2019.
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NEW ARTIST
Jacob Gils (Denmark)Initiated by a wish to break away from controlled predefined photography I employed a distinct technique by transferring Polaroids onto Watercolor paper and a conscious dividing of the photo into multiple fields. The new take on photography let to the unique expression seen in Limit To Your Love series. I have most recently developed this series into a further exploration, using old-fashioned glass plate techniques
Movement is a series which combines a strong aesthetical point of view with meticulous attention to technical detail. As the title indicates, the series is concerned with giving shape to temporal and spatial aspects inherent in all visual experience.
Transfer series are polaroids transferred onto watercolour paper. Through this technique a particularly atmospheric and dreamy mood arises. Upon closer inspection, however, the eye begins to decode that in these works there are real places depicted, all with their special characteristics.
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Transcend : Ian Patrick O Connor
Save the date March 12th 2020 -
Paris Photo NYC presented by AIPAD
Momentum -POSTPONED -NEW DATE TO BE CONFIRMEDMomentum is excited to exhbit at the inaugural Paris Photo NYC 2020.
Paris Photo, the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is happy to announce the launch of Paris Photo New York April 2-5, 2020.
Presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), the new fair will create a transatlantic hub between the two historic centers for photography – Paris and New York thus forming a collective voice and international reference for the photographic medium.
The new fair will capitalize on the strength of the American photography market by expanding and diversifying the fair’s representation of international and cutting-edge galleries and invigorating the community of curators and art professionals throughout the Americas and beyond. -
NEW ARTIST
Nick Meek (UK)Coming from the North of England, where life can be grey and the summers short, Nick grew hungry for warmth, colour and adventure. “It made me want to explore the world and I think my photographs show more than anything else, a world full of light." Creating award-winning campaigns, Nick feels at ease both photographing stills and directing moving image. His work touches on everyone’s ability to sense and feel atmosphere. Whether it is a galloping horse in the desert, kids crossing the street, discarded shoes on a carpet or a majestic landscape, his pictures capture, not only a sense of the moment, but also the feeling.
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Alone Together- Aristotle Roufanis
Opening Feb 27th“The bigger the city, the lonelier we feel. It is important for people to understand that although lonely, they are not alone. Individuality does not equal to alienation.”Momentum in conjuction with the Color House, presents Alone Together by Greek Artist Aristotle Roufanis. Opening Feb 27th.Since 2016 Roufanis has been creating super-high-definition images of urban landscapes that are an intimate look into the lives of city-dwellers and their loneliness.The starting point for this project was the artist’s own experience as an expat in London a few years ago. His initial observations of people tending to feel isolated in big cities led to further research into the phenomenon of urban loneliness in modern societies. This revealed that the issue is so widespread that it is often described as an epidemic. In the US alone, rates of loneliness have doubled in the last 50 years; according to a survey, nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone or left out.London, Paris, Hong Kong, Miami, Athens: for Aristotle Roufanis, urban habitats and the loneliness of city dwellers are surprisingly the same wherever you go. By isolating only a few illuminated windows in each photo, the artist seeks to raise awareness about the epidemic of loneliness in big cities and at the same time take a positive stance about it. In his own words: “The bigger the city, the lonelier we feel. It is important for people to understand that although lonely, they are not alone. Individuality does not equal to alienation.” -
Out into the cold world
Ole Marius Joergensen Jan 16th- Feb 13th 2020Momentum in conjuction with the Color House presents " Out into the Cold World" an exhibtion by Ole Marius Joergensen.Ole Marius is an artist with a background in film and is best known for his meticulously staged cinematic photographs.With the use of theatrical light and vivid color juxtapositions, Ole Marius’ work emphasizes the mystery and duality of rural life in the modern world.
Ole Marius’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe. His work can be found in private collections in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Oslo, New York, Madrid and Berlin. He is currently working on a book to be published in 2020.
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Artwork of the Month
Ole Marius Joergensen: Elevator music from Out into the cold world, 2019 Archival pigment print 49” x 35” in Edition 1 of 3 + 2AP $5000 -
SPACE PROJECT
VINCENT FOURNIER 19 December 2019 - 16 January 2020Fournier is a world-renowned fine art photographer based in Paris, France. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum New York, LVMH Foundation Paris, Centre Pompidou Paris, and the Mori Art Museum Tokyo.
Produced over a period of a decade from 2007-2017, Fournier documents the past and future of space exploration, from the memories of the Apollo program that followed the first steps of man on the moon, to the future NASA SLS rocket destined for Mars. The photos are a deliberate mix of historical and documentarian vision of space adventure with scenes staged by cinema, and Fournier’s childhood memories as well as a journey into our future.
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PULSE ART FAIR MIAMI BEACH DEC 5TH-8TH 2019
MOMENTUM BOOTH #512 5 - 8 December 2019Momentum at Pulse art fair (#booth 502) Miami beach Dec 5th-8th 2019. Featuring the work of Vincent Fournier and Ole Marius Joergensen.
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Artwork of the month
The Brave one from No Superhero by Ole Marius JoergensenIn 2014 he debuted his first major series “No Superhero,” an ode to one of his childhood heroes, and a playful series with dark undertones. Ole Marius views Superman as a metaphor for taking risks and the worry of failure. Each scene is depicted through a lens that captures childhood nostalgia with the hero as an ordinary man.
The brave one from No Superhero Artist proof #1 available. Please contact gallery for more information.
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New Photo books from Formento + Formento
Contact the gallery for purchase"36" The book36 “The captivating tableaus exude a sense of tension, melancholy, and a quiet unease. Each image from Japan Diaries exists as if it were a still taken from a noir Japanese film, each solitary figure yearning for something unknown.” Glenn O’Brien wrote of the Formento’s series Japan Diaries."Hysteria" The bookHYSTERIA Images dealing with beauty and upheaval, brutality and optimism. Post World War II, a time when it seemed as if America was at the height of its power and also on the verge of spinning out of control. Issues in a world we still know and contend with today."Circumstance" The bookCIRCUMSTANCE CIRCUMSTANCE 2008-2010 These stirring, unapologetic photographs bring forward the legacy of change, economic depression and transience which has haunted America’s history. Places and characters in today’s settings as if searching for their own meaning a new definition of place, which still tips its hat in homage to the grit and dirt in which today’s America springs.
