Gallery of the Neuer Sachsischer Kunstverein e.V.
Katrin Amft
Marc Grummert
Tim Kellner
Thanh Long
Knut Wolfgang Maron
Janet Riedel
Heidi Schneekloth
Michael Strauss
Janet Zeugner
Nine photographers initiate a paradigm shift in the current photography discourse. Although all the artists work in different ways and their artwork finds different expressions - from light painting and chemigrams to subjective photographic works - they all follow the idea of "Subjective Photography".
Refusal of Reality
Subjective positions in contemporary photography
Artists:
Katrin Amft, Marc Grummert, Tim Kellner, Thanh Long, Knut Wolfgang Maron, Janet
Riedel, Heidi Schneekloth, Michael Strauss, Janet Zeugner
In the exhibition series "Refusal of Reality - Subjective positions in contemporary
photography" nine photographers initiate a paradigm shift in the current photography
discourse.
Although all the artists work in different ways and their artwork finds different
expressions - from light painting and chemigrams to subjective photographic works -
they all follow the idea of "Subjective Photography".
By dealing with the radical postions of the vanguard art of the twenties and the
"Subjective Photography" of the fifties and sixties until today they expand the
photographic thinking and formulate a personal point of view, which shows the
relationship between the photographer and the world.
Despite different production methods and visual strategies the works are united by
the common element of the subjective view of reality. The artists adopt a
contraposition to a documentary and realistic photography and find a more
metaphoric, lyric, narrative and subjective approach.
Although a number of individual artists work in a subjective context, for the first
time a group has formed, which will bring its positions forward in the following
three years in Germany and overseas.
The refusal of a represented reality opens the way to the real.
"We do not have a consciousness that, as idealism would have it, constitutes things.
Nor do things proceed our consciousness, as realism would have it [...] with our
body, with our senses, with our gaze and our ability to understand and to use
language, we are provided with the measuring tools to assess being ("das Sein"), and
with dimensions to which we can relate it to, however, we are not equipped with a
relationship of direct equivalencies or immanence. Our perception of the world and
of its history is the practice of this process of taking measures and the
investigation of its discrepancies in relation to our norms." (Merleau-Ponty)
Website of the artists: http://www.absageandiewirklichkeit.de
Opening: March 12, 2006, 11 a.m.
Gallery of the Neuer Sachsischer Kunstverein e.V.
St. Petersburger Strasse 2 - Dresden
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 3 p.m.-7 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.