Two Exhibitions
dal 5/2/2015 al 18/4/2015
Segnalato da
5/2/2015
Two Exhibitions
Museum Folkwang, Essen
For the exhibition Detlef Orlopp presents his black-and-white analogue photography predominantly shows landscapes. 'Messages from Over There' is an exhibition that presents the startling history of poster art in East Germany.
Detlef Orlopp
Just so Close Yet Distant too
Detlef Orlopp’s work unites a minimalist search for form with a personal interest in the morphological variety of landscape. Orlopp discovered his photographic language in his homeland, Siegerland, shortly after the Second World War, at a remove from the art scene. After a few years of travel and study, Orlopp became a student of Otto Steinert’s at the Schule für Kunst und Handwerk in Saarbrücken in 1956.
In the early sixties, Orlopp developed a style that was completely his own. His black-and-white analogue photography predominantly shows landscapes, mountain formations, and the surfaces of water. Detlef Orlopp (b. 1937) is one of the most important German photographic formalists of his time.
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Messages from “Over There"
East German Posters 1949–1990
Twenty-five years after the dramatic collapse of the Berlin Wall, today’s exhibition takes a look at the startling history of poster art in East Germany. The show reflects the visualization of ideological biases in poster form, while also revealing the technical and artistic accomplishments made in poster art in the period 1949–1990, often against all the odds and in spite of artistic oppression, material scarcity, and a lack of sophisticated printing technology. This tension between the political and the artistic is illuminated in exhibition chapters devoted to different periods and the themes of propaganda, product advertising, and art and culture.
Image: Detlef Orlopp, Helene von B., 8.10.1963, © Detlef Orlopp, 2015
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Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1 45128 Essen
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