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9/7/2009

Two exhibitions

Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam

Gerda Leo - Photographien 1926-1932
10 July – 6 September 2009

Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands of the remarkable work of Gerda Leo (1909, Hagen - 1993, Amsterdam). Gerda Leo studied at the art academy of Burg Giebichenstein, the ‘other Bauhaus’, in eastern Germany from 1925 to 1930. At first she followed courses in painting, graphic art and enamelling, before switching in 1928 to Hans Finsler’s class on ‘Object Photography’. Finsler was one of the leading exponents of Neue Sehen (New Vision), the international avant-garde photography movement of the interwar period. Neue Sehen was characterised by an analytical, clinical depiction of everyday objects and a desire for simplicity.

Leo was undoubtedly Finsler’s finest student. Her photos have a less artificial quality than those of her teacher; Leo liked to juxtapose light and shade, bright and dark. She created a succession of atmospheric, yet almost abstract, powerfully geometrical compositions. For a while, she worked as assistant to photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, perhaps the greatest exponent of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). It was through him that she met Jakob D’Oliveira, whom she later married. When they moved to Amsterdam, where they raised a family of five children, Leo had little opportunity to continue photographing.

Much of Gerda Leo’s work lay buried in the archives, until it was rediscovered in the early 1990s during preparation for an exhibition on the history of the Burg Giebichenstein art academy. Between 1930 and 1932, Leo had selected the works that she considered most important and pasted these onto card. Other photos were preserved in albums. As a result, almost all the photos she produced in the late ‘20s and early ’30s survived. In 1994, the Halle museum presented an exhibition on Gerda Leo accompanied by a publication. The show and the book place her remarkable oeuvre in the context of the New Vision movement.

This exhibition was made possible with support from Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt.

Photographien 1926-1932, by Gerda Leo can be seen from 10 July to 6 September 2009 at Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Open daily 10.00-18.00, Thurs/Fri 10.00-21.00. Tickets: € 7.50

Foam is sponsored by the BankGiroLoterij and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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Foam_3h: Kim Boske - Mapping
10 July - 9 September 2009

Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents Mapping by Dutch photographer Kim Boske (b. 1978, Hilversum). Boske is fascinated by the system of time and space. In her work she tries to capture this illusive reality by exploring the mutability of things. Her photos incorporate various levels, merging different moments in time together. They reveal phenomena that are impossible to see or witness with the naked eye.

In Mapping, Boske investigates how physical movement in time and space continually changes our perspective on the world. By eschewing individual perspective and instead combining multiple perspectives in a single image, she creates a new, layered reality. Here Boske presents a series of views of trees that she photographed from different angles. She combines the various shots to form a new image that shows each tree in its entirety. All the perspectives of the tree exist simultaneously; they overlap each other and join together to form a single image in a changing world of appearance and disappearance.

Kim Boske graduated in 2005 at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague. In recent years she has shown work at Amsterdam’s Centrum voor Fotografie, Netherlands Photography Museum in Rotterdam, Singapore’s International Photography Festival, Ron Mandos Rotterdam, New Jersey USA (all in 2008), as well as Platform 21 in Amsterdam in 2006.

Mapping was made possible with support from SBK Amsterdam, Van Bijlevelt Stichting, Rijnja Repro and Fonds BKVB.

Six limited editions by Kim Boske are available for purchase at Foam Editions.

Foam is sponsored by the BankGiroLoterij and the VandenEnde Foundation.

Image: Herbstzeitlose, 1928 © Gerda Leo

FOAM Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 - Amsterdam
Daily 10.00-18.00, Thurs/Fri 10.00-21.00
Tickets: euro 7.50

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