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Edited by Stefan Wimmer. Text by Joachim Jager, Stephan Berg, Barbara Auer, Wolfgang Ullrich, Rick Vercauteren.
Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the “Berlin School” of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving critical reflection on the very conditions of contemporary filmmaking into his approach. Archeologically reconstructing genre filmmaking in a national film production context that makes the production of genre cinema virtually impossible, he repeatedly draws on plots from classic films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s, in order to provide his viewers with the distinct pleasures only cinema can instill without, however, allowing his audience ...
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The painter, draftswoman, and graphic designer Bettina van Haaren got her inspiration for the title, 'Punctured Glades' from a poem by Paul Celan. With the word?punctured,? an ostensible idyll is turned into the opposite. Her pictorial worlds are similarly paradoxical. The works of the artist combine collage-like self-portraits of unsparing accuracy with old-master-like examinations of props from her studio such as fruits, preserved animals, furs, or fabrics. Her works arise from lengthy observation and careful probing of the relationships of bodies to the world. Underlying each work is the assumption that the body is the starting point and measure of all human perception and experience, that visual expression is always self-reflection on being human. The new book by Bettina van Haaren mainly presents works of the last four years. 00Exhibition: Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Germany (23.07-04.09.2016) / Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Germany (15.10.2016-12.03.2017) / Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany (20.05-16.07.2017).
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