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Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa?s (born 1955) spectacular yet meditative sculptures can be found in public spaces across the globe. Through a sophisticated interplay of conventional materials, including bronze, steel, alabaster, and wood, with light, letters, and sound, Plensa makes his works accessible on both a poetic and emotional level. He delves into the nature of man and invites viewers to immerse themselves? both in the work and in their own inner self. 00Exhibition: Max-Ernst-Museum, Brühl, Germany (03.09.2016-15.01.2017).
CURTH GEORG BECKER.
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Miklos Gaál
Miklos Gaal is one of the most successful representatives of the young generation of Finnish photographers whose fresh, untainted view of modern civilization has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Visuality, nostalgia and a light, playful spirit characterize his photographs. They are scenic images of events recording significant and absent-minded moments. The explicit partial blurred focus guides the viewer's gaze, leading it through the pictorial plane along an unexpected route. The gaze zooms in and out in the static photograph. The recognizable focused area is emphasized, creating a reinforced feeling of diversity. Distance and blurred resolution are means of distancing that make the pictures melancholy and humoristic. Familiar themes are studied with a childlike seriousness.
A Class of Their Own
The pioneer group of the Düsseldorf School The ‘Düsseldorf School’ has become a household name in the art world for one of the most successful and influential strains of modern photography. Coined in the late 1980s, the name refers mainly to the pioneer group of students of the late Bernd Becher, who in 1976 became the first professor for creative photography at a German arts academy. His students included Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth, all of them today internationally acclaimed artists in their own right. Whereas ‘Düsseldorf School’ initially was used as a handy term for a group of artists with the same university’s background, it quickly turned into a powerful brand name both in critical and commercial contexts. Despite its welcomed impact on the art scene, the members of the ‘School’ felt rather ambiguous about their perception as a group which turned them into stars but simultaneously risked levelling individual profiles and differences. What exactly connects and distinguishes them aesthetically is for the first time thoroughly explored in Maren Polte’s pioneering study.
Photography and Doubt
Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place. Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in photography’s referential power by discussing it in rigorously historical terms. How was the understanding of photographic realism cultivated in the first place? What do cases of staged and manipulated photography reveal about that realism’s hold on audiences across the medium’s history? Have doubts about photography’s testimo...
The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive
“By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the o...
Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts
A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.
The world of Tim Burton
His films are cult classics: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland. Less well known, but no less relevant, is the artwork that Tim Burton creates outside of Hollywood. His drawings and paintings, poems and short stories delight his fans just as much as his adventures on the silver screen. In the spirit of Surrealism, Burton playfully blends elements from popular culture--cartoons, comic books and B-movies, as well as gothic culture. This catalogue affords fascinating insight into the bizarre, magical imagination of this exceptional multimedia artist. And like the title of his new film, these pictures leave the viewer in amazement, inspired, wit...
