| | | | | | | | Kurt Buchwald
At home, aus der Serie: Die Röhrenmenschen, Casa Colombo, 2009
Foto auf Alu-Dibond
© Kurt Buchwald | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 February – 30 April 2023 | | | | | | Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4020 Linz
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kurt Buchwald
Das Tor, aus der Serie: End of History, Berlin 1994
Fotoabzug auf Barytpapier
© Kurt Buchwald | | | | | | | 1 February – 30 April 2023 | | | | Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was no artist in East Germany who used photography to conduct a more provocative and extensive media, political, and ego exploration. From the very beginning, media and cultural self-doubt is palpable in Kurt Buchwald's work. He did not consider either photography itself or the GDR as a state entity to be enlightened marvels - but neither did he consider Western capitalism, as he tried to make clear immediately after the fall of the Wall. Interpreting life as a civilizational misfortune and defending himself against it with the camera is what drives him to this day. | | | | | | | | | | Installation view Brendel - Buchwald - Hartzsch, © SANDRO E. E. ZANZINGER PHOTOGRAPHIE, 2023 | | | | | | The documentary and the intervention, two approaches with which he catapults himself into the picture, belong together in this artist's work, indeed they condition each other. Without the authenticated certainty of the factual, his art would lack the challenge; without the formalistic and serial that is inherent in Buchwald's world of images and thoughts, the poetological and stylistic link would be missing.
Kurt Buchwald is a disputatious image and action artist, a specialist in perception and an experimental image disruptor. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch, Ohne Titel
© Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch | | | | | | | 1 February – 30 April 2023 | | | Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch (born 1952), painter and media artist, was an important representative of the oppositional nonconformist art scene in the GDR. He studied painting and graphic arts in Chemnitz, took part in numerous actions and performances, and from 1980 was a member of the music group "Kartoffelschälmaschine" (Potato Peeling Machine) alongside Andreas Hartzsch, Frank Raßbach, Gitte Hähner-Springmühl and Klaus Hähner-Springmühl.
His broad inter- and multimedia work includes painting and printmaking, sculpture and sculpture, drawings and collages, photography and film. | | | | | | | | | Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch
Meditation
© Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch | | | | | | The exhibition will feature his Super-8 experimental films as well as experimental photo series from the 1980s.
In both groups of works, Hartzsch's interest in the fragmentary and the apparently incidental is central; his uncompromising way of working creates an emotional immediacy that not only went against the grain of the official socialist art policy of the GDR, but still touches us today. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Micha Brendel
Vier letzte Bilder IV, 1988-90
Silber-Gelatine-Handabzug, Öl, Asphalt, Tusche, auf Hartfaserplatte
100 x 100 cm
© Micha Brendel | | | | | | | 1 February – 30 April 2023 | | | | | | | | | Micha Brendel
Aus der Serie: Anencaphlie, Nr. 7, 1992
Haut, Beizen über Gelantinesilber-Fotografie
54 x 75 cm
© Micha Brendel | | | | | | Micha Brendel works in the artistic fields of photography, painting, performance, installation, object and text.
A large part of his photo-based artworks can be seen as the result of a multi-layered work "in the material". Brendel's apparatus of attack includes photographic structural investigations as well as object alienations by means of experimental manipulations. What the artist achieves aesthetically on the basis of mechanical and chemical attacks against the photographic material or through subsequent painting and calligraphic compression of prints is never comfortable, the inclusion of bodily fluids and medical-historical preparations challenging. Brendel works on everything that becomes his material as a concentrate of origin, cultural history, the past. A duality of body and spirit is constantly present, a corporeality that the artist has acted out surreally-performatively for years using flesh, blood, and animal organs-from the darkness of trauma and Protestant blossoms of fear.
But Brendel always continues a familiar topos in art: the memento mori, as an invitation to self-exploration and as an artistic retreat. | | | | | | | | | | Installation view Brendel - Buchwald - Hartzsch, © SANDRO E. E. ZANZINGER PHOTOGRAPHIE, 2023 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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