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11/12/2014

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Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

Peter Piller
Document Control
13.12.2014-22.02.2015

In the mid-1990s the German artist Peter Piller (*1968 in Fritzlar) worked at a Hamburg press clipping service during his art studies. The service was used by regional advertising clients and companies to monitor where and how their paid advertisements appeared in print. Like Richard Prince during his job at Time Life Company (which provided the source of inspiration for his now world-famous Cowboys series), Peter Piller was drawn to specific photographs while paging through the press, which he then set aside and organized into categories, such as Auto berühren (Touching Car), Noch ist nichts zu sehen (Bauerwartungsflächen) (Nothing Yet to Be Seen (Future Building Sites), and Schiessende Mädchen (Shooting Girls). Over the years he compiled these images into his Archive Peter Piller, now comprising over 7,000 images, which the artist continues to explore by sorting and arranging the images into different series. With the exhibition Document Control the Fotomuseum Winterthur offers insights into this extensive archive.

In Piller’s work the relationship between image and text is an important criteria for selection. Although others might not see anything particular, the artist has developed a delicate sensibility of the eye that allows him to discern the hidden qualities of photographs taken for ordinary purposes. Arranged in groups and coded by titles, the found or assembled visual material is thus placed in different contexts; thus Piller also transfers the images into a different artistic order. For example, Von Erde schöner (More Beautiful from Earth) is a large installation of countless images from an archive of aerial photographs of private homes taken in the 1980s. Nimmt Schaden (Takes Damage) stems from the digital photo archive of a Swiss insurance company and is a quiet ode to the unknown photographers. With his Peripheriewanderungen (Periphery Walks)and the series Kraft and Schlaf (Sleep) we also discover something about Piller as a photographer. In his archive as well as in his photographs, the artist focuses on the realm of everyday life, adding the dimension of humorous perceptions to our profane activities and rituals.

Peter Piller—Document Control was developed by Fotomuseum Winterthur in cooperation with the Centre de la Photographie, Geneva. The two-part exhibition is taking place simultaneously in Winterthur and Geneva. Additional partners are the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn and the Kunsthalle Nürnberg. The accompanying publication, the very first collection of texts on Peter Piller’s work in book format, is being published by Walther König.

Program:
Sunday, 14 December, 2014, 11:30
Artist’s Talk with Peter Piller and Thomas Seelig
in the exhibition Peter Piller – Belegkontrolle/Peripheriewanderung Winterthur.

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Peter Piller
Periphery Walk, Winterthur
13.12.2014-22.02.2015

For nearly twenty years Peter Piller (*1968 in Fritzlar) has been undertaking peripheral excursions, or Peripheriewanderungen (Periphery Walks) around various European cities. In Hamburg, the Ruhr region, Bonn, Graz, and Barcelona he has explored the areas marking the outer borders of urban settlement in cities and regions of varying size. In carrying out these walks Peter Piller follows things that catch his eye as well as cues from his memory, stopping his excursion once he feels unable to take anything more in. When something particularly interests him on one of his explorations, he departs from his determined routes, wanders around through the area, or even simply waits for a key moment. Archives of photographs result, which he subsequently expands upon in his studio with his drawings from memory. In these mental maps the medium of drawing supplements that of photography – and vice versa.

Fotomuseum Winterthur commissioned Peter Piller with a work, which brought him to Winterthur multiple times to take photographs in the years 2013/14. In the exhibition Periphery Walk, Winterthur and the artist book by the same name (published by Nieves) we witness how a passionate interest from his childhood re-enters into Piller’s life. Or in his own words: “But interests that are sidelined or overshadowed as the hormones kick in do not die out; they remain, encapsulate d, going unnoticed for decades until they suddenly reemerge. In the new millennium, pushed further along the track of life, they naturally called promptly for access to photography.” With his laconic and humorous gaze he not only focuses his camera on aging industrial complexes, neatly organized residential developments, and areas of greenery, but also engages in a reflection on his own profession.

Periphery Walk, Winterthur was commissioned in conjunction with the 750th anniversary of the city of Winterthur. The main sponsor of the project: Credit Suisse.

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Viviane Sassen
In and Out of Fashion
13.12.2014-15.02.2015

With her highly original and at times provocative practice, Viviane Sassen is one of Europe’s most exciting photographers. In and Out of Fashion is the first full retrospective of her fashion work, which she has developed alongside her work as a practicing artist. Conceived by Sassen herself, in collaboration with her husband, the designer Hugo Timmermans, the exhibition shows a selection of more than 300 photographs from the past seventeen years. It presents a lively installation, combining a range of photographic material, from working snapshots, to magazine spreads, exhibition prints and state-of-the-art projections.

Sassen is widely celebrated for breaking free from many of the clichés of the fashion industry, abandoning a caution induced by commercial constraints for a practice that is both playful and formally inventive. She regards fashion photography as a kind of 'laboratory' working with models, stylists and make-up artists in a process that is both fluid and experimental. Sassen pushes the model’s body to the limits of abstraction, searching out forms that suggest fashion’s relation to other visual modes like collage and sculpture. Her images disrupt traditional formats, utilising strong colours, deep shadows and props such as mirrors to challenge the viewer’s perception. At once performative and highly stylised, Sassen takes fashion photography to the very edge of legibility.

In and Out of Fashion presents an inventive multimedia installation, including a projection that mimics the form of a catwalk itself. Unlike her parallel practice as an artist, much of the exhibition was made on commission, including photographs taken for the advertising campaigns of major fashion houses such as M Missoni, Stella McCartney–Adidas, Miu Miu and Louis Vuitton. The display also includes editorial work for fashion and design magazines, including Pop, i-D, Wallpaper, Purple, Kutt and Dazed & Confused. In these we see the emergence of Sassen’s fashion idiom, perhaps particularly her early experimental collaborations with Emmeline de Mooij, including the series Nudes – A Journey, presented in the exhibition. As De Mooj has noted, the pair worked 'in a sort of dream world', developing their images through free association. Sassen has remained strongly committed to this ethic of spontaneity, a vital resource in reimagining fashion’s codes and conventions.

The exhibition reveals both the collaborative and personal evolution of Sassen's vision, including a collaboration with the top Dutch fashion model, Anna de Rijk, and a series of 36 portraits made with the French stylist, Roxane Danset. A section of the exhibition called Foreplay is devoted to the moments before a fashion shoot begins, revealing Sassen's creative process at its purest. As the exhibition title suggests, Sassen's images dance seductively along a borderline, crossing boundaries and mixing up genres, at once in and out of fashion. In this way she offers a challenge to the industry to become more visually inventive.

The exhibition is curated by Fotomuseum Winterthur in collaboration with Viviane Sassen and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. It is made possible by the generous support of the Hulda und Gustav Zumsteg-Stiftung, the Zürcherische Seidenindustrie Gesellschaft, the Truus und Gerrit van Riemsdijk Stiftung and the Mondriaan Fonds.

Sassen's work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and the Centre National des Art Plastiques, Paris. Her publications include Flamboya (Contrasto, 2007), Parasomnia (Prestel, 2011), Die Son Sien Alles (Libraryma, 2012), Roxane (Oodee, 2012), Etan&Me (Odee, London, 2013), Pikin Slee (Prestel, 2014), and UMBRA (Odee, 2014).

An accompanying catalogue, Viviane Sassen: In and Out of Fashion, is published by Prestel with essays by Nanda van den Berg and Charlotte Cotton.

BiographyWith her highly original and at times provocative practice, Viviane Sassen is one of Europe’s most exciting photographers. In and Out of Fashion is the first full retrospective of her fashion work, which she has developed alongside her work as a practicing artist. Conceived by Sassen herself, in collaboration with her husband, the designer Hugo Timmermans, the exhibition shows a selection of more than 300 photographs from the past seventeen years. It presents a lively installation, combining a range of photographic material, from working snapshots, to magazine spreads, exhibition prints and state-of-the-art projections.

Sassen is widely celebrated for breaking free from many of the clichés of the fashion industry, abandoning a caution induced by commercial constraints for a practice that is both playful and formally inventive. She regards fashion photography as a kind of 'laboratory' working with models, stylists and make-up artists in a process that is both fluid and experimental. Sassen pushes the model’s body to the limits of abstraction, searching out forms that suggest fashion’s relation to other visual modes like collage and sculpture. Her images disrupt traditional formats, utilising strong colours, deep shadows and props such as mirrors to challenge the viewer’s perception. At once performative and highly stylised, Sassen takes fashion photography to the very edge of legibility.

In and Out of Fashion presents an inventive multimedia installation, including a projection that mimics the form of a catwalk itself. Unlike her parallel practice as an artist, much of the exhibition was made on commission, including photographs taken for the advertising campaigns of major fashion houses such as M Missoni, Stella McCartney–Adidas, Miu Miu and Louis Vuitton. The display also includes editorial work for fashion and design magazines, including Pop, i-D, Wallpaper, Purple, Kutt and Dazed & Confused. In these we see the emergence of Sassen’s fashion idiom, perhaps particularly her early experimental collaborations with Emmeline de Mooij, including the series Nudes – A Journey, presented in the exhibition. As De Mooj has noted, the pair worked 'in a sort of dream world', developing their images through free association. Sassen has remained strongly committed to this ethic of spontaneity, a vital resource in reimagining fashion’s codes and conventions.

The exhibition reveals both the collaborative and personal evolution of Sassen's vision, including a collaboration with the top Dutch fashion model, Anna de Rijk, and a series of 36 portraits made with the French stylist, Roxane Danset. A section of the exhibition called Foreplay is devoted to the moments before a fashion shoot begins, revealing Sassen's creative process at its purest. As the exhibition title suggests, Sassen's images dance seductively along a borderline, crossing boundaries and mixing up genres, at once in and out of fashion. In this way she offers a challenge to the industry to become more visually inventive.

The exhibition is curated by Fotomuseum Winterthur in collaboration with Viviane Sassen and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. It is made possible by the generous support of the Hulda und Gustav Zumsteg-Stiftung, the Zürcherische Seidenindustrie Gesellschaft, the Truus und Gerrit van Riemsdijk Stiftung and the Mondriaan Fonds.

Sassen's work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and the Centre National des Art Plastiques, Paris. Her publications include Flamboya (Contrasto, 2007), Parasomnia (Prestel, 2011), Die Son Sien Alles (Libraryma, 2012), Roxane (Oodee, 2012), Etan&Me (Odee, London, 2013), Pikin Slee (Prestel, 2014), and UMBRA (Odee, 2014).

An accompanying catalogue, Viviane Sassen: In and Out of Fashion, is published by Prestel with essays by Nanda van den Berg and Charlotte Cotton.

Image: Viviane Sassen, In Bloom, 2011,For Dazed & Confused

Press Contact:
Marco Kamber, kamber@fotomuseum.ch

Opening: Friday, 12 December 2014 18:00-21.00

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Opening hours and holidays:

Open: Easter Sunday and Monday, May 1 (till 6 p.m.), Ascension Day, Pentecost and Pentecost Monday, August 1, December 24 (till 4 p.m.), December 26 (till 6 p.m.), December 31 (till 4 p.m.) and January 2, 2014.

Closed: Good Friday, December 25 and January 1, 2015

Admission:

Peter Piller – Document Control (from 13 December 2014)
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Main Gallery):
CHF 10.- (with reduction CHF 8.-)

Peter Piller – Periphery Walk Winterthur (from 13 December 2014)
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Gallery):
CHF 10.- (with reduction CHF 8.-)

Viviane Sassen – In and Out of Fashion (from 13 December 2014)
Fotomuseum Winterthur (Gallery of Collections):
CHF 10.- (with reduction CHF 8.-)

Rudy Burckhardt – In the Jungle of the Big City
Fotostiftung Schweiz:
CHF 10.- (with reduction CHF 8.-)

Combi-ticket (all exhibitions): CHF 19.- (with reduction CHF 15.-

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