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ROSEMARY LAING "weather"
"weather" in the new series of large scale colour photographs by the Australian artist Rosemary Laing is an analogy which links the effects of climate, and climate change, on landscape and human being with the effects of political and social 'climates'.
On a formal level the series "weather" is a synthesis of the elements that have formed Laing's artistic practice, bringing together the performative, documentary and object intervention strands. The first part with 6 motifs was completed in august 2006. Weather #5, (c-print, 124 x 168,5 cm, ed. 8) shows an isolated female figure against a bluish skylike b...
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Rosemary Laing "weather"
Malick Sidibé
"Studio Portraits from Bamako 1960-1980" and early vintages
september 16 - november 11, 2006
raum1: Rosemary Laing "weather"
In this series of large scale colour photographs "weather" is an analogy which links the effects of climate, and climate change, on landscape and the human being with the effects of political and social 'climates'. On a formal level the series "weather" is a synthesis of the elements that have formed Laing's artistic practice, bringing together the performative, documentary and object intervention strands. The first part with 6 motifs was complete...
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Boris Mikhailov - Look at me - I look at water
"My horror is that my enemy has no face..."
this notation of Heiner Müller gives the title for the keywork of our exhibition.
Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. Empathy is the other obvious aspect of his approach to all his subjects. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the homeless. >Look at Me, I Look at Water< was composed in 1999 at the su...
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