THURSDAY 20 | German photographer Arjay Stevens joins Cambodian painter Chhim Sothy in an exploration of all things abstract. Says Arjay: “I have tried – as almost all serious photographers do – to take pictures of our real world in the best and most interesting way, but this is a lifelong pursuit that in early form involved showing many things in a photo. During the last decade, I have tried to concentrate on minimising in my art photography. This is, from the technical aspects, a challenging intellectual process. In our world bursting with information, increasingly noisy, filled with the loudest colours and overcrowded, to concentrate on the ‘simple’ or to express the ‘essential point’ is hard. From the general to the substance: this is abstraction.”
WHO: Arjay Stevens & Chhim Sothy
WHAT: Abstractions art & photography exhibition opening
WHERE: New Art Gallery, #20 Street 9 (next to Phsar Kabko market)
WHEN: 6pm March 20
WHY: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso