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« First Light » by Katharina Sieverding at the Galerie Christian Lethert
First Light is the third solo-exhibition with Katharina Sieverding in the gallery. Since the 1960s the artist has significantly contributed to the extension of the term of art and to media art. Her both photographic and filmic oeuvre is concerned with political, social and cultural issues.
Under the title First Light Katharina Sieverding presents works from 1969 and 2012.
The concept of montage and collision is the basic parameter of all works shown in the exhibition. Solarized Iranian revolution encounters Chinese paper cut, Jack Smith meets Katharina Sieverding, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney meet in front of the Concorde, sevenarmed chandelier gets together with ocean waves, radiator coincides with arrangement of folds and enlargers are ... - Exposition
Katharina Sieverding - Ressource Terabyte 2009
"There exists a long tradition of thinking on photography in terms of its privileged access to the real. Unlike the painting or the drawing, the photograph was alleged to cut through the aesthetic and cultic value: what the camera produced was a document, without aura and free of aesthetic traps".(1)
The recent works by Katharina Sieverding focus on montages and interfaces of spaces, references, and protagonists carried to the extreme.
"Only then, when pushed to its limits, can it (the imago) be held still long enough to begin to ask questions of its nature. What is this thing, the imago, which stands for and yet is not "I'? And what is it that plays with the imago, which works on it from the outside, shapes it, sculpts it? For by definition it is a being that does not stand in the representation,... - Exposition
Female Trouble The camera as mirror and stage of female projection
Since the invention of photography more than 170 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly recreate ones ego, the camera has also served as a means of calling into question clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally feminine was and remains a discourse with gender identity, its social and political definitions and reaching beyond them.
The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bonvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art investigate the female image. The artists explore the question of what image patterns the media age employs for portraying femininity and how t...
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First Light is the third solo-exhibition with Katharina Sieverding in the gallery. Since the 1960s the artist has significantly contributed to the extension of the term of art and to media art. Her both photographic and filmic oeuvre is concerned with political, social and cultural issues.
Under the title First Light Katharina Sieverding presents works from 1969 and 2012.
The concept of montage and collision is the basic parameter of all works shown in the exhibition. Solarized Iranian revolution encounters Chinese paper cut, Jack Smith meets Katharina Sieverding, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney meet in front of the Concorde, sevenarmed chandelier gets together with ocean waves, radiator coincides with arrangement of folds and enlargers are ...
"There exists a long tradition of thinking on photography in terms of its privileged access to the real. Unlike the painting or the drawing, the photograph was alleged to cut through the aesthetic and cultic value: what the camera produced was a document, without aura and free of aesthetic traps".(1)
The recent works by Katharina Sieverding focus on montages and interfaces of spaces, references, and protagonists carried to the extreme.
"Only then, when pushed to its limits, can it (the imago) be held still long enough to begin to ask questions of its nature. What is this thing, the imago, which stands for and yet is not "I'? And what is it that plays with the imago, which works on it from the outside, shapes it, sculpts it? For by definition it is a being that does not stand in the representation,...
Since the invention of photography more than 170 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly recreate ones ego, the camera has also served as a means of calling into question clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally feminine was and remains a discourse with gender identity, its social and political definitions and reaching beyond them.
The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bonvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art investigate the female image. The artists explore the question of what image patterns the media age employs for portraying femininity and how t...