Expositions du 23/09/2006 au 08/10/2006 Terminé
Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig / Halle 9 - Basement Spinnereistr. 7 . 04179 Leipzig Germany T: +49(0)341.4980270 www.spinnerei.de Opening hours: Thurs, Fri 3-7 pm . Sat, Sun 2-7 pm Opening: Introduction by private lecturer Dr. Andreas Steffens (University of Kassel / Wuppertal) with following Artist Talk Music by John R. Carlson (Seattle) with Felix Karweik, Special Guest: Maria Hüpeden
Subjective positions in contemporary photography
Artists
Katrin Amft | Marc Grümmert | Tim Kellner | Thanh Long | Knut Wolfgang Maron | Janet Riedel | Heidi Schneekloth | Michael Strauss | Janet Zeugner
www.absageandiewirklichkeit.de
The fourth exhibition in this series displays again recent works contextual to the given philosophy of the artists network and will be shown only for two weeks.
Although all members work in different ways and their artwork finds different expressions - from light painting and chemigrams to subjective photographic reportage - they all follow the idea of "Subjective Photography".
By dealing with the radical positions of the vanguard art of the twenties and the "Subjective Photography" of the fifties and sixties until today they expand the photographic thinking and formulate a personal point of view, which shows the relationship between the photographer and the world.
Despite different production methods and visual strategies the works are united by the common element of the subjective view of reality. The artists adopt a contraposition to a documentary and realistic photography and find a more metaphoric, lyric, narrative and subjective approach.
Although a number of individual artists work in a subjective context, for the first time a group has formed, which will bring its positions forward in the following three years in Germany and abroad.
The refusal of a represented reality opens the way to the real.
Nor do things proceed our consciousness, as realism would have it [...] with our body, with our senses, with our gaze and our ability to understand and to use language, we are provided with the measuring tools to assess being ("das Sein"), and with dimensions to which we can relate it to, however, we are not equipped with a relationship of direct equivalencies or immanence. Our perception of the world and of its history is the practice of this process of taking measures and the investigation of its discrepancies in relation to our norms." (Merleau-Ponty)
From: Andreas Steffens, Angesichts. In: Absage an die Wirklichkeit -
Subjektive Positionen zeitgenössischer Fotografie. Kerber Verlag,
Bielefeld 2006, p. 145f.
Publication
The corresponding trilingual catalogue is published by KERBER edition young art ( www.kerber-verlag.de ).
For detailed information about the artists and their work please have a look at our website www.absageandiewirklichkeit.de (english provided).
Photography Thanh Long, Regenblume, aus: Blumenbilder, 2003/2006Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig / Halle 9 - Basement Spinnereistr. 7 . 04179 Leipzig Germany T: +49(0)341.4980270 www.spinnerei.de Opening hours: Thurs, Fri 3-7 pm . Sat, Sun 2-7 pm Opening: Introduction by private lecturer Dr. Andreas Steffens (University of Kassel / Wuppertal) with following Artist Talk Music by John R. Carlson (Seattle) with Felix Karweik, Special Guest: Maria Hüpeden