Works

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6 VOICES

Six artists of the Gal­lery for Con­tem­porary Pho­to­gra­phy – Die­mut von Funck, Loreen Hinz, Giu­seppe Lo Schiavo, Ste­fan Schu­ma­cher, Kor­bi­nian Vogt, Sebas­tian Weise – pre­sent new pho­to­gra­phic works not yet shown in Munich. They have in com­mon that they visua­lize a new rea­lity through image details or light­ing, from which the pho­to­gra­phed object emer­ges as an abstrac­tion or sta­ging and the­reby recei­ves a new level of meaning.

7 Febru­ary 2019 – 23 March 2019

On 7 Febru­ary begin­ning at 7 p.m. all are invi­ted to the opening recep­tion at the gal­lery. The artists will be present.

The fol­lo­wing works are pre­sen­ted in the show:

6 VOICES

Six artists of the Gal­lery for Con­tem­porary Pho­to­gra­phy – Die­mut von Funck, Loreen Hinz, Giu­seppe Lo Schiavo, Ste­fan Schu­ma­cher, Kor­bi­nian Vogt, Sebas­tian Weise – pre­sent new pho­to­gra­phic works not yet shown in Munich. They have in com­mon that they visua­lize a new rea­lity through image details or light­ing, from which the pho­to­gra­phed object emer­ges as an abstrac­tion or sta­ging and the­reby recei­ves a new level of mea­ning.
Thus Die­mut von Funck (Munich) muta­tes the views from inside fog­ged win­dows of shops (“Hid­den Sce­nes”) to expres­sive, high-contrast com­po­si­ti­ons, remi­ni­scing of infor­mal pain­ting.
The recent work by Loreen Hinz (Leip­zig) recalls the aes­the­tics of Renais­sance pain­ting, but the artist thwarts our expec­ta­tion by sta­ging a male model – instead of a female nude – with a strong phy­si­cal pre­sence in the old mas­ter style.
Anci­ent Greek bronze sculp­tures from the Natio­nal Archaeo­lo­gi­cal Museum of Athens, on the other hand, are the focal point of Giu­seppe Lo Schiavo’s (Lon­don) approach. An illu­mi­na­tion con­cept deri­ved from anci­ent color theory influ­en­ces the ela­bo­rate bronze bodies and turns them into the stage for a mytho­lo­gi­cal play.
Ste­fan Schu­ma­cher (Munich) expo­ses struc­tures to found objects, buil­dings and street situa­ti­ons that leave behind the actual object in the con­text of the pic­ture and exist as lar­gely auto­no­mous forms.
The young Munich pho­to­gra­pher Kor­bi­nian Vogt sta­ges the female nude in a spec­ta­cu­lar land­scape. The works pre­sen­ted here were crea­ted in front of brea­thta­king natu­ral sce­nery in South Tyrol, Nor­way and Green­land.
In the pho­to­gra­phic work of Sebas­tian Weise (Halle/Saale), iro­ni­cal refrac­tion is viru­lent: found objects as well as out­door sculp­tures are being rein­ter­pre­ted pre­ci­sely because of the tra­ces of tran­si­to­ri­ness that mani­fest them­sel­ves in them. His land­scapes expe­ri­ence a real objec­tifi­ca­tion and ratio­na­liza­tion, nature appears domesticated.