David Goldblatt South African Photographs 1952-2006
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David Goldblatt's photographic projects are all set in and deal with South Africa, and they are all occupied with the people, the work, the social constellations and the constructed and natural spaces of this country. They depict all this in a direct, tangible and concrete here and now, which is at the same time permeated by an awareness of the history, the structures and the balance of power from which the immediate present emerges in this country. In the series about mines and miners the closely-woven portrait of the Boers, also known as Afrikaners, the portrait of a small town inhabited by middle class white people, the vivid visualisation of the black people's excessively long way to work, the large-scale project on housing, shops and churches as "sculpted in stone" social structures, right up to the series of close-ups, the cropped images of gestures and attitudes and on to the new South Africa, to the colour photographs of urban officials, new work forms, the streets of Johannesburg and the constellations in the country: David Goldblatt (*1930 in Randfontein), as an exemplary documentary photographer, has explored the violent, conflict-torn history of his country, constantly focusing on the political and sociological development of South African society, the social disunity and the turbulent political events during apartheid. With this large-scale retrospective, the Fotomuseum Winterthur pays tribute to the photographic work of David Goldblatt, winner of the "Hasselblad Award 2006", the most important international prize for photography. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles. The curators are Martin Parr and Urs Stahel. The exhibition is accompanied by a book published at Christoph Merian Verlag. Supported by Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung Ulrike Ottinger Untitled, from the series "Bildnis einer Trinkerin", ca. 1975 (Portrait of a heavy drinker) Gelatin-silver print, 24 x 18 cm Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, permanent loan Lisa Schiess © Ulrike Ottinger TOWARDS A NEW EASE Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur 3 March - 14 October 2007 Artists: Suky Best | Tacita Dean | Antje Dorn | Andrea Gohl | Nan Goldin | Nanna Hänninen | Annika von Hausswolff | Roni Horn | Valérie Jouve | Annette Kisling | Phoebe Maas | Leonore Mau | Annette Messager | Marianne Müller | Elisabeth Neudörfl | Ulrike Ottinger | Martha Rosler | Yoshiko Seino | Ann-Sofi Sidén | Pernilla Zetterman For several decades, women were virtually compelled to occupy themselves primarily with themes relating to their own situation in art and the world, and thus to create a (feminist) expression in contemporary art. This was the only way, through intensive self-reflection and power analysis, that they stood a chance of being noticed. This is why the women's art of the past 30 to 40 years is so intensively bound up with the concepts of identity and gender. Representative of this are artists such as Valie Export, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. The exhibition "Towards a New Ease - Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur" wants gently to ring in a new everyday life. It introduces work by a series of women in a joint exhibition, thus creating once again a communal rhetoric framework, whereby generations, formats, attitudes and approaches are mixed up together, and the exhibited works no longer revolve exclusively around the areas mentioned but demonstrate new, different ways that are now embarked upon by women in a natural way. The exhibition is accompanied by the collection publication "Set 4" The exhibition is curated by Thomas Seelig. Supported by Studio Arte Flückiger AG, Zürich

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