Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    Jeff Wall

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    Canadian artist Jeff Wall is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In his elaborately staged pictorial compositions, he combines the narrative of cinema with painting. Wall became known for his large-format lightbox images, which are formally more reminiscent of the world of advertising than that of fine art. With this technique, he revolutionized the medium of photography, elevating it to the height of painting and sculpture. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster presents a selection of his iconic lightbox images from the 1990s.

    Wall studied art history in Vancouver from 1964 to 1970 while also working as a painter and sculptor. From 1970 to 1973, he pursued doctoral studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and subsequently taught as a professor at various universities. He became interested in photography in 1967 and, as a self-taught photographer, produced a booklet of black-and-white photographs of Vancouver. He turned to color photography in 1976, and the following year began mounting large-format color transparencies in aluminum light boxes.
    Many of his works are set in his birthplace, Vancouver, where he still lives today. The city on Canada's west coast is characterized by a post-industrial landscape and a multicultural society. Artistically, his work occupies the space between documentary photography and cinematic staging. Although his images are meticulously composed and contain numerous art-historical references, they do not convey a fixed meaning; instead, they unfold an ambiguous and unstable significance that reveals itself only during the act of viewing.

    Kuratiert von Karsten Löckemann.

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    Sterling Ruby

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    The American artist Sterling Ruby, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is known for his multi-disciplinary body of work, which includes sculptures, ceramics, bronzes, collages, textiles, and expansive spray-painted canvases in which he intertwines a wide variety of autobiographical, art historical, and sociological sources. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, Ruby explores the idea of a non-hierarchical and borderless universe. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster lends insight into his multifaceted artistic practice through a selection of works created between 2008 and 2016.

     

    Further exhibitions

    Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route
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    Kunstpalais Erlangen

    Ilinca Fechete. Memory Magnified by Memory of Course
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    AkademieGalerie

    Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs
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    Deutsches Theatermuseum

    Cindy Sherman
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    Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    Elmgreen & Dragset. Handle with Care
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    Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

    Merlin Stadler. Stilled Life
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    AkademieGalerie München

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