The Second Glance, Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Kunstverein Villa Streccius,Landau 2011
The Second Glance
Au deuxième regard
Второй взгляд
Au deuxième regard
Второй взгляд
Contemporary photography
26.März – 1.Mai 2011
Introduction: Dr. Reinhard Spieler, Direktors des Hack-Museums Ludwigshafen
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with an essay by Reinhard Spieler
Participating artists:
Martin Blume (Landau, Paris);Thomas Brenner (Kaiserslautern); Martina Kerl (München); Jochen Kitzbihler (Freiburg i. Br.); Timo Klos (Bad Hersfeld, Berlin, Offenbach a.M.); Ingar Kraus (Berlin, Zechin); Martin Liebscher (Berlin, Frankfurt/M.); Boris Mikhailov (Berlin, Kharkiv/Ukraine); Holger Niehaus (Berlin); Martin Rieger (Landau, Berlin); William Ropp (Nancy/Frankreich); Anémone du Roy (Strasbourg/Frankreich).
Martin Blume (Landau, Paris);Thomas Brenner (Kaiserslautern); Martina Kerl (München); Jochen Kitzbihler (Freiburg i. Br.); Timo Klos (Bad Hersfeld, Berlin, Offenbach a.M.); Ingar Kraus (Berlin, Zechin); Martin Liebscher (Berlin, Frankfurt/M.); Boris Mikhailov (Berlin, Kharkiv/Ukraine); Holger Niehaus (Berlin); Martin Rieger (Landau, Berlin); William Ropp (Nancy/Frankreich); Anémone du Roy (Strasbourg/Frankreich).
On Friday, March 25, 8 pm, the Landauer Kunstverein Villa Streccius invites you to the vernissage of its exhibition “Der Zweite Blick”, the second photo exhibition in its 30-year history - with twelve photo artists who enjoy the highest international recognition.
At a time when the flood of images from globalized media seems to determine our “world view”, when the furthest corners of our “one world” are present through photos and photographic images can even trigger revolutions through new communication technologies, artistic photography demands a special aesthetic standard from our ability to perceive. With the means of contemporary photography, aesthetic and spiritual “pictorial spaces” are created that stimulate, irritate and captivate our perception in a fascinating way.
Artistic photography is far from merely depicting or duplicating the real world. It can unsettle our certainties in life, intensify experiences, but also stage apparent realities as fictions. The “second glance” in photography refers to a “broadening of horizons”: to the design principles and processes that establish the process of perception as a process of consciousness. Photography allows us to leap out of transience or subversively create it where it is not perceptible.
“The photographic image becomes a metaphor for the simultaneously living and frozen moment, which paradoxically anticipates death and at the same time turns against it.” (Claude W. Sui). The Kunstverein will publish a 128-page richly illustrated bilingual (German-French) catalog with an essay by art historian Dr. Reinhard Spieler, director of the Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen.
Fig.: 01 and 03, contribution jk:
Lutetia, Tempel, Ida, Dactyl and Eros 2011 | 5 asteroids | series of 3 fine art prints on Hahnemühle handmade paper | limited edition framed in ash wood frame | 84.5 x 126 cm each | Link to the complte 3-part series: /bild/bildkonzeptionen/lutetia-tempel-ida-dactyl-und
Lutetia, Tempel, Ida, Dactyl and Eros 2011 | 5 asteroids | series of 3 fine art prints on Hahnemühle handmade paper | limited edition framed in ash wood frame | 84.5 x 126 cm each | Link to the complte 3-part series: /bild/bildkonzeptionen/lutetia-tempel-ida-dactyl-und