Camera Work
von 15.04.1999 bis 15.04.1999
Ausstellungsübersicht,
Rita Henssen,
Thomas Demand,
Simone Westerwinter,
Peter Bömmels,
Georg Winter,
Cor Dera,
Alex Hanimann,
Martin Gostner
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Camera Work
Photography and Its Objects - Fotohof invited Christian Gögger (Kunstverein Ludwigsburg) to curate this show. - Concept Art in the 60s was a crucial turning point: it essentially redefined the medium of photography. The photographic process and the photograph itself became conceptual, experimental or performance-like instruments which referred to the real object world without documenting it.
For this exhibition eight artists who use photography as an expression within a broad media spectrum were invited. They realize their images and objects from a purely personal perspective, dismantling the special status of photography in the sense of high gloss aesthetics. In their content as well as with their technique they demonstrate the self-evident handling of the popular medium photography.
In the context of art in the 90's the artists represent different aspects regarding the relation of photography to its objects: they point out the difference between surface aesthetics and contents (Dera, Westerwinter); the application of the photographic picture as a sketch book and 'light drawing' (Boemmels, Henssen); the reversal of the photographic process by concentrating perception and consciousness on the subject means a renunciation of the picture as a material product which shifts the development of the picture to the front of the camera (Winter); the parallel structure of text and images (Hanimann, Hensen); the materialized staging of the photographic object as a doubling and a neutralization of the photographic appearance (Demand); and, the legitimization of artistic contents through the historical function of photography (Gostner). The exhibition is supported by the ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Stuttgart, Germany.
Photography and Its Objects - Fotohof invited Christian Gögger (Kunstverein Ludwigsburg) to curate this show. - Concept Art in the 60s was a crucial turning point: it essentially redefined the medium of photography. The photographic process and the photograph itself became conceptual, experimental or performance-like instruments which referred to the real object world without documenting it.
For this exhibition eight artists who use photography as an expression within a broad media spectrum were invited. They realize their images and objects from a purely personal perspective, dismantling the special status of photography in the sense of high gloss aesthetics. In their content as well as with their technique they demonstrate the self-evident handling of the popular medium photography.
In the context of art in the 90's the artists represent different aspects regarding the relation of photography to its objects: they point out the difference between surface aesthetics and contents (Dera, Westerwinter); the application of the photographic picture as a sketch book and 'light drawing' (Boemmels, Henssen); the reversal of the photographic process by concentrating perception and consciousness on the subject means a renunciation of the picture as a material product which shifts the development of the picture to the front of the camera (Winter); the parallel structure of text and images (Hanimann, Hensen); the materialized staging of the photographic object as a doubling and a neutralization of the photographic appearance (Demand); and, the legitimization of artistic contents through the historical function of photography (Gostner). The exhibition is supported by the ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Stuttgart, Germany.
