Anna Meschiari
Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Nemo Nonnenmacher - Utopia
Sep 10, 2014
My purpose is to draw attention to the discrepancy between »concrete« perceived forms and their idea as an intangible immaterial image. I want to allow the recipient to reflect his shared perception on the representative character of the photographic image. The belief in this character bears the ability to point the index beyond the border of spatial and temporal representation. Looking at things surrounding us, one could understand their material as a natural utopia of our human concept that follows the limitation of the perception of time. Therefore I want to explore a perspective on the radical change of our concept of materiality. In order to achieve an equivalent form of the »smallest particles« of the image I print the pictures largely on semitransparent screen printing sheets and present them with enough distance to wall, floor and ceiling, so that the recipient has the possibility to approach the images from all directions and recognize the image and its backing material as independent layers.
Artist Blog
The blog of Der Greif is written entirely by the artists who have been invited to doing an Artist-Feature. Every week, we have a different author.
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1/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
2/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
3/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
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5/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
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7/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
8/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
9/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
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12/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
13/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
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17/18 Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
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Fabian Lehmann, Selected Works
Sep 17, 2014 - Nemo Nonnenmacher
Fabian Lehmann is an artist/photographer who lives, works and studies in Bielefeld. I have always seen his work as a pure, direct and tense approach to objects and situations (I do not know how to call it properly) and the resulting image. His concept of color, form and composition always drags me into an abstract world of things, but his visual vocabulary never pretends to be intelectual nor sophisticated. His non-affected style of visual language is what I deeply admire and truely aim for in my own work. It is important to mention, that the selected works are never only printed in certain sizes, instead they are always extended to something object-ish, like foil, glass and the like. I am very excited to see pieces of his work and their realizations at the upcoming exhibition starting on 20.11.2014 in the "Alte Stadtbibliothek" in Bielefeld. die-bielefelder-schule.de
Wireframe
- Nemo Nonnenmacher
"Wireframe" is an ongoing project that developed out of my series "Utopia". In "Utopia" there is still a photographic representation, that I altered afterwards. The whole work is centered around the transformation of the image data into another visual representation (e.g. the box into the exploding orb) with the exact same image data. In fact, the images consist of the same material, simply our way to percieve it has changed. "Wireframe" tries to go a step further and uses the photographic representation in a vastly indirect way in form of rendered models of the original object. Still the approach is a photographic one. I try to comprehend the digital space in which the pictures were taken as an extension of the space that can be experienced physically. Still we somehow notice a change in our concept of materiality when it comes to the question of how this space can be experienced. Using the photographic method in order to open up this space allows us to factor out aspects of our perception and concentrate on similarities concerning alternative concepts of experience.
1/13 David Jankowiak, Fairs
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David Jankowiak, Fairs
Sep 16, 2014 - Nemo Nonnenmacher
I want to show you an excerpt from the series "Fairs" by David Jankowiak, a young photographer from Dortmund. Usually he deals with the autonomy of the image concerning color and form in a very intuitive way, which I find astounding as well. But within "Fairs" he offers a view so deeply photographic and dissectional, that I can not stop looking over his pictures over and over again.
1/21 Elisabeth Neudörfl, Future Worlds
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Elisabeth Neudörfl, Future Worlds
- Nemo Nonnenmacher
A friend of mine, whose way of thinking and working I appreciate very much, gave me an artist book by his professor, called Future World. Elisabeth Neudörfl is professor for documentary photography at Folkwang in Essen. Even though I am often not agreeing with the principles of documentary photography, I found this work very precise. The expectations that came with the title of the book were, in my case, fulfilled in an artistic way, that I usually do not find in documentary photography. I am now very thankful to have this piece within my bookshelf.