Places with history
dal 11/11/2007 al 11/12/2007
Segnalato da
11/11/2007
Places with history
Fotogalerie Wien, Wien
Photography show. Tatiana Lecomte, Ernst Logars, Leo Fabrizio, David Adam and Daniel & Geo Fuchs. In the five collected contributions the question of historical inscription is asked in places and landscapes -and with it connecting their social and political meaning.
Group show
Tatiana Lecomte, Ernst Logars, Leo Fabrizio, David Adam and Daniel & Geo Fuchs
In the five collected contributions the question of historical inscription
is asked in places and landscapes –and with it connecting their social and
political meaning. In this manner individual phenomena are rather excluded
and a collective consciousness to the place and its history is brought up
for discussion.
Tatiana Lecomte, as well as Ernst Logar in their work concerns themselves
with the events of the National Socialism in Austria.
Since 2005 Tatiana Lecomte examines landscapes in direct proximity to former
concentration camps and asks the question about the represent ability of the
transgression to possibly make the once non-visible visible and a possible
complicity of the landscape.
In her new work Cement, 2006 she takes a radical step: Visualization through
destruction.
In Ernst Logars work Feliferhof, 2004 stands the landscape in discourse with
investigation and documentation efforts of a former K.& K., later NS and
today used by the Austrian Army, firing range which served during 1941-45 as
a place of execution by firing squad and where the corpses were buried in a
mass grave. How does one go on and deal with such a place and its oppressive
history? Cause for Logar’ s special interest, was the recent revelation of
the murder of his grandfather at the Feliferhof.
Another kind of historical revelation is the center of attention with Leo
Fabrizio. The history of Switzerland - its democracy, independence of many
years and neutrality – the Swiss are bound to an oath to defend and to
protect these values as well as shelter - to furnish bunkers. Fabrizios
series Bunkers, 1999-2004 focuses particularly on the military bunkers.
Almost a quest game camouflaged in an almost theatrical way he merges the
landscape with local-typical buildings in a way that renders them almost
unrecognizable.
In the contributions of David Adam and Daniel & Geo Fuchs they deal with the
recent history of Germany focusing on the former DDR. These artists bring
the strange and oppressing to light.
In the work Belohnungsraum, 2003 David Adam illuminates a usual means of
control in the former DDR – the spying. Prisoners were rewarded for days or
even weeks for their spying activities by being accommodated in so called
better prison conditions. The spaces rather resembled hotel rooms with
comfort than prison cells. Adam amalgamates this historical component with
views of contemporary spaces creating a kind of advertising campaign for the
„reward areas “.
Daniel & Geo Fuchs have worked since 2004 on the project STASI - secret
rooms, in which they photograph, 15 years after the fall of the wall, rooms
and places of the Ministry for Public Security of the former DDR. The
perfect, central perspective effect of the camera and detached photographed
areas, which to date no one has been able to see, are oppressive and leaves
one sensing the extent of the DDR power apparatus. Indications and symbols
of ruthless pursuit, and suppression, of power, and powerlessness are
archived here.
Image: Daniel & Geo Fuchs
Opening: Monday, 12. November, 19.00
Fotogalerie Wien
Wahringer Str. 59 - Wien
Tue-Fri 14.00-19.00 / Sat 10.00-14.00