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Jens Knigge "Tenojoki", 2015
© Jens Knigge |
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WINTER |
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| 23 November 2021 ‐ 11 March 2022 |
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Herbert List: Ruhpolding, 1957
© Herbert List |
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| Winter, those are memories. The crunching of deep firn under the boots; wondrous ice flowers on the window panes; the sweet sightings of early snowdrops. But above all, winter is the season when the world becomes quieter. Thomas Mann once caressed a snow-covered mountain landscape with his words as "padded soundlessness". It is not only the world that becomes quieter, but also the colours. Grey light, white fields, black branches. The paint of winter is as monochrome as it is rich in contrast; and yet the winter colouring is a nuanced one. In her upcoming group exhibition, Johanna Breede creates a multifaceted picture of the quietest of all seasons. With a love of detail, Breede condenses various aesthetic approaches and photographic signatures into a small kaleidoscope of winter. |
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Koichiro Kurita: "Unforeseen River", Southold, NY 2011
© Koichiro Kurita |
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You think you can hear it, the silence in the photographs on display. It lies in the meditative and formally clear landscapes of the Japanese artist Koichiro Kurita; it sits in the snow-covered tips of Nomi Baumgartl's firs and in the bare branches that stand out against the white in Jens Knigge's photographs like calligraphic characters of an unknown alphabet. A quiet solitude also envelops the silhouette of a male figure portrayed by Donata Wenders, who walks in the snow, in a blur, as if he wants to escape the visible together with the world. Even the penguins in tails turn away from the photographer and waddle into the all-swallowing expanse of Antarctica.
Isa Marcelli, Ulrike Ottinger and Stefan Moses also visualise the quiet side of winter. The snow stains the world, it rubs against the trees. Only from a portrait of Herbert List does the cold clink at us in the form of two tin milk cans. The Magnum photographer casts a surreal, magical glance at a winter long gone, and while we smile at the cow's head sticking out of the winter coat, we think we can hear the pizzicato of the violins from Vivaldi's fourth season in the dim distance. |
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Nomi Baumgartl: "Winter's Tale", 2021
© Nomi Baumgartl |
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Winter, these are subtle fleeting moments. The fragility of a season is hardly felt as much as when the thaw sets in. It can take up to five hours for a flake to touch the ground after it is formed. In a fraction of a second, it can be captured in a picture, and then it is gone. And so this exhibition also makes us reflect on the absence of winter, on the transience of snow, on the disappearance of a season that has become even more fleeting with climate change. The snow quietly crumbles. What remains are images. Small escapes from hectic modernity, into visualised vastness, into landscapes of delicious tranquillity, into carefully exposed white.
Jana Kühle (Translation: Sondra Kitchen) |
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Isa Marcelli: "Perce-neige", 2016
© Isa Marcelli |
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