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New Exhibition:

United in solidarity. Three fundamentally different conceived works merge, with this deeply humanistic principle, into one visual work of art, centered solely around the destructive power of the steel industry – a symbol of capitalism which relentlessly devours its own children. The collective exhibition “Il était une fois le fer, il ya encore les hommes “, which was first shown to the public in September last year as part of the “Festa de l’Unità” and that will be shown again from June 20 in the gallery of the theater of Esch, is a synonym for the collapse of industrial utopia, combining the nostalgic monumental recordings of local industrial wasteland of the artists Remo Raffaelli and Jean-Claude Berens, both living and working in Esch, the dunning outcrying portraits from the collective “RF36″ based in the region of Florange and the startling snapshots of the Italian journalist and writer Luciano Manna, whose focus is on the disastrous consequences of short-sighted industrial policy, lack of environmental protection and corruption in the southern Italian port and industrial city of Taranto.

22 June to 13 July 2014 (Tuesday to Sunday @ 15:00 – 19:00 hrs)
Vernissage: 21 June 2014 @ 17:00 hrs
Free Entrance
Galerie du Théâtre – Esch-sur-Alzette

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I am happy to announce that the Luxembourgian architecture magazine “Echo” has published a feature of one page dedicated to the work of Remo Raffaelli and me. This article has been published in relation to our last exhibition in H2O in Differdange.

First, I’d like to thank the Photo Club Esch for the invitation to give a lecture. It was easy and wonderful for me to show the presentation to the very sympathetic and enthusiastic members of the club, because the atmosphere was welcoming and warm, and the dialogue happened naturally. This was definitively not the last time I had the pleasure to share some good moments together with all these nice people.

The PCE was founded in 1919 and is now organizing its 50th Salon Mondial de d’Art Photographique. The exhibition of this annual contest will be held in June. I look forward to this 50 anniversary edition this year.

Amongst all the other activities, the club releases its own printed magazine 6 times a year with a bunch on practical information, latest pictures of its members and other information about ongoing activities, lectures and exhibitions. I am very thankful for the respect granted to my work in the latest edition. You may download the article by clicking on the cover picture.

Photo by Claude Piscitelli

The exhibition at H2O is almost over and I would like to thank the College of Mayor and Aldermen, the Cultural Commission of the town of Differdange, the workers that helped to prepare the exhibition, the kind staff that the reception desk, Remo Raffaelli and all the visitors that came from the Greater Region of Luxembourg for making this wonderful experience happen. It was a great opportunity to show extra large prints as this prestigious exhibition hall offers the space (more that 400 m2). I hope that every visitor enjoyed as much the exhibition as I have appreciated the location. Thanks for making this happen and thanks for coming.

For those of you that have not yet been at the exhibition and would like to see it, there is still a week to go including the next weekend (08/02 and 09/02).

During this month a slide show of pictures was projected in loop. I have seen a lot of people enjoying the show and the feedback was very positive. For those people that couldn’t pay me a visit, I have posted the slideshow here.

Tempus Fugit from Jean-Claude Berens on Vimeo.

The most popular of my pictures has been chosen as a bookcover for Jonathan Kellerman’s new novel “Vina”. It is the Czech translation of the popular novel “Guilt”.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix” (Los Angeles Times), and this intensely thrilling blend has never been so powerful as in the acclaimed author’s new novel of murder and madness among the beautiful dreamers, seductive predators, and doomed innocents adrift in the glare of Southern California’s eternal sunshine.

A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case—and draw out the disturbing truth.

Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation—all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege. Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface—a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice.

Before their work is done, Alex and Milo, “the most original whodunit duo since Watson and Holmes” (Forbes), must confront a fanatically deranged mind of such monstrous cunning that even the most depraved madman would shudder.