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11/3/2005

Rineke Dijkstra

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

Portraits

During the past ten years, Rineke Dijkstra has achieved world fame on the art scene with her impressive portrait series. In the early 1990s she began working on beach portraits, austere frontal photographs of young people on the beaches of the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Gabun and the Ukraine. In this series, Rineke Dijkstra concentrated on the moment in which a pose began to develop. Hesitation and uncertainty are evident in her subjects' attitudes and expressions and refer to the existential loneliness of the adolescent. The backgrounds, limited only by the choice of cropping, the rather low camera angle and the use of a flash, clarify the often culturally defined details in the pictures.

“In her choice of the “post climax” as the starting point of three focal groups of work, Rineke Dijkstra opens up a field of subtle, “weak-willed”, submissive insights into the human condition. She shows the first scarring, the first achievement, the first “post-experience” of young people, and she shows it as the first sign of maturity and depth. She creates portraits that are not a confirmatory ritual but which represent a balance between the individual, the group (the bathers, the mothers, the soldiers) and universal human existence in general in the face of birth and death, thereby developing a new and very individual interpretation of the classical portrait. In the age of brash poses and shrill screams, Rineke Dijkstra’s calm, full presence creates a new form of monumen­tality and a new form of beauty in the photographic portrait.” (Urs Stahel)

"Rineke Dijkstra – Portraits" combines around seventy photographs selected from the most important series, as well as her two major videos, to form a general overview of the work of the Dutch photographer, born in 1959. In addition to the beach photos there are portraits of mothers immediately after the birth of their children, bullfighters, girls from the Buzzclub, photographs taken in the Berlin zoo, and portraits of male and female Israeli soldiers.

The exhibition is being prepared by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in collaboration with the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book published by Schirmer/Mosel containing essays by Hripsimé Visser and Urs Stahel (German/English), 160 pages, format 25 x 33 cm, softcover. Exhibition price: CHF 48.-

We would like to thank Ringier AG, the Mondriaan Stichting and the Royal Dutch Embassy, Berne for their support for the exhibition.

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THE DREAM OF MYSELF, THE DREAM OF THE WORLD

Set 2 from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur 12 March to 9 October 2005 (Collection)

Ever since the 1960s, photography has been searching for a "true", or self-defined, identity, and an analysis of "false", socially prescribed, identity. "True" identity must be sought and gained, "false" identity must be exposed and overcome. The Dream of Myself grapples with the problems: Who am I? Who defines me? How free am I? How can I find myself? The Dream of the World tackles the plural of these questions and asks about the search for social identity. More often than the individual, it is the group that seeks its path in its limitations. What begins as liberation usually ends in violence. The aim of "Set 2 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum" is to pursue these questions on the example of our own works. Works by Urs Lüthi, Walter Pfeiffer, Valie Export, Peter Hujar, Mark Morrisroe, Nan Goldin, George Tony Stoll, Ugo Rondinone, Maria Friberg, Daniele Buetti and others evoke a visual murmuring on the Dream of Myself. This weave of questions is rooted in social forces – in pressure, violence, coercion and their counter-forces – in the super-individual, in social interrelations, in pictures by Gilles Peress among others. Play, theatre, seeking, wrestling and fighting are manifested through the human body in both areas.

Main sponsor: UBS AG

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Image: Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992. C-Print, 168 x 141,5 cm. © Rineke Dijkstra, Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris

Fundació La Caixa
E-Barcelona
Jun 9 - Aug 21, 2005

Stedelijk Museum
NL-Amsterdam
Nov 11, 2005 - Feb 6, 2006

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45. CH-8400 Winterthur (Zürich)
(Main Gallery)
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 11-18, Wed 11-20

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