Exhibitions
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Barcelona Exhibition: Permanent Red
May 13 2023
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona proposes a great exhibition from 13th of May to 22nd of October 2023.
Permanent Red exhibition © La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – Pep Herrero
Curated by Valentín Roma and Laura Valls, this exhibition presents John Berger’s commitments through his books, videos, drawings completed by Jean Mohr’s photographies and other archives. They wel…
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Coventry (UK) exhibition: Migrating Dreams and Nightmares
Jan 31 2023
‘Migrating Dreams and Nightmares’ is a new exhibition of images and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on display at Commonground in Coventry. The exhibition is based on their book A Seventh Man, first published in 1973 and looks at migration in Europe. Nirmal Puwar (Academic at Goldsmiths, University of London) first co-curated this exhibition in 2016 at Goldsmiths University of London. This new exhibition is on di…
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Photocopies
Book 1996
Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Exhibitions, Short Stories
Photocopies, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes.
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Le Blaireau et le Roi
Book 2010
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Le Blaireau et le Roi , book by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre, first edition in 2010, in link with the exhibition Dans leur travail at Chartreuse de Mélan (2006 Taninges, France).
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Par La Fenêtre
Book 2009
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Par La Fenêtre, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre in link with their exhibition at Galerie Josephski-Neukum (2009, Issing, Germany).
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Disparate De Fuendetodos
Book 2013
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Spain, Yves Berger
Disparate De Fuendetodos, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, in link with their exhibition at Sala Zuloaga (2013, Fuendetodos, Spain).
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Desde el taller
Book 2015
Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger
Desde el taller , dialog between Yves and John Berger with Emmanuel Favre, drawings by Yves and John Berger, edited in 2015.
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JOHN BERGER
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.