Opening of Photo Exhibition at Artacts Festival, St. Johann in Tirol, Austria
Welcome to opening of my photo exhibition Sweet Addiction at Artacts Festival on Thursday on 8th of March at 7 p. m. at Gallery of the Marktgemeinde St. Johann in Tirol / 1st floor. Looking forward to see you all that can make it 
You can get more info about the exhibition here and there is also an interview at freistil magazine about it.
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Vabljeni na odprtje moje foto razstave Sladka odvisnost, ki bo v okviru festivala Artacts v četrtek, 8. marca ob 19. uri v galeriji Marktgemeinde St. Johann na Tirolskem (1. nadstropje). Vesela bom, če vam uspe priti
Več informacij o razstavi lahko najdete tukaj, lahko pa si preberete tudi intervju v nemščini v Freistil Magazinu.
About her project Sweet Addiction through Ken Vandermark‘s eyes:
There are important parallels in the history of development between photography and jazz and improvised music. Photography began to find its voice as an art form when it moved away from an attempt to replicate 19th century painting conventions and entered the modernism of the 20th century. As that happened, photographers were present to document artists who were creating one of the most important and influential music forms of the new century. Fans and critics gained a deeper appreciation and understanding of jazz and improvised music through iconic images taken by photographers like William Claxton, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, Val Wilmer, and Francis Wolff; of artists like Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Mary Lou Williams, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman. The music kept evolving and photography kept changing, both art forms incorporated different aesthetic ideas and innovations in technology as the century progressed. Now- in the beginning of the new millennium- the profusion of music that can downloaded or streamed online, and the superabundance of images that can be taken and viewed on every phone, has created a situation that can make it very difficult to actually be heard as a musician or seen as a photographer.
Petra Cvelbar is special in this regard. Her photographs are much, much more than the now typical shots of people onstage playing their instruments. The work stands out, it is individual. She does what few photographers have been able to do since the early 20th century- truly capture an improvising artist “in the moment.” This is an ongoing challenge because- both from the standpoint of the musician and the photographer- it’s a moment that can’t be planned, it is unpredictable and takes place during a spontaneous course of parallel action between the player and image maker. Despite these complexities, Petra Cvelbar has been able to indicate the 21st century reality for this music by showing individuals in the midst of creating or as characters in an instant of candid attitude- being human and who they are, as improvising artists and as people.
– by Ken Vandermark, 2018
