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DIE FRAU DES FOTOGRAFEN
Karsten Krause & Philip Widmann, Deutschland 2011, Dokumentarfilm, 29‘


Gerti Gerbert wurde von ihrem Mann Eugen über mehr als vierzig Jahre hinweg fotografiert. Von ihrer Heirat bis zu Eugens Tod entstanden neben den obligatorischen Familienfotografien zahllose Bilder von Gerti – in Unterwäsche, in selbstgenähten Sommerkleidern oder gänzlich nackt, am Strand, im Wald, im Auto oder zuhause auf dem Fußboden. Anhand des Bildarchivs der Gerberts, Gesprächen mit Gerti und Aufzeichnungen von Eugen umkreist der Film die Frage was am Ende bleibt vom Leben und der Liebe.



Fotografien, Filme und Texte Eugen Gerbert Buch Philip Widmann Regie, Bild, Montage, Ton Karsten Krause & Philip Widmann Sound Design & Mischung Roman Vehlken Postproduktion Matthias Behrens

produziert von Philip Widmann in Koproduktion mit Karsten Krause und in Kooperation mit der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

gefördert durch den Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, die Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein und den Freundeskreis der HfbK Hamburg e.V.

Festivals & Preise Visions du Réel Nyon 2011, IndieLisboa 2011, Curtocircuito Santiago de Compostela 2011, Krakow FF 2011 [Special Mention], Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca 2011 [Special Mention], IKFF Hamburg 2011 [Special Mention], Dokumentarfilmpreis / First Steps Awards 2011, Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte 2011 [Best Short Film], Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro 2011 [Special Jury Award], Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada 2011, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest 2011, dokumentART Neubrandenburg / Szczecin 2011 [Latücht- Preis], Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife 2011, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2011, Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2011, Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2012, Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein 2012, Belgrade Documentary & Short Film Festival 2012, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg 2012, DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2012

Karsten Krause wurde 1980 in Freiburg geboren. Von 2004 bis 2010 studierte er Visuelle Kommunikation an der Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. Er lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg. Filmografie: You and Me (2009), Die Zeit, die es braucht (2008), A Fundamental Right (2007)

Philip Widmann, geboren 1980 in Berlin, hat in Hamburg Kulturanthropologie und Visuelle Kommunikation mit Schwerpunkt Dokumentarfilm studiert. Er ist Mitglied des selbstorganisierten Filmlabors LaborBerlin e.V. Filmografie: Destination Finale (2008)

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*** Der Film DIE FRAU DES FOTOGRAFEN wird am Samstag, den 24. März 2012 in der Galerie Susanne Zander (Antwerpener Straße 1, DE-50672 Köln) im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Miroslav Tichy: Drawings & Photographs" vorgeführt. Der Eintritt ist frei ***

Morton Bartlett & Miroslav Tichy in Liège

Morton Bartlett, Girl in Yellow Sundress, Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery

Morton Bartlett & Miroslav Tichy
BIP 2012
8th International Biennal of Photography and Visual Arts in Liège
11.03. - 06.05.2012

The “RUMEURS / RUMOURS” exhibitionwill take place at the MADmusée and it will feature the work of Miroslav Tichy, Morton Bartlett, Lee Goodie and Loulou.

Bartlett, Godie, Loulou et Tichý ont une histoire de vie hors du commun. Lee Godie séjournait dans les rues de Chicago et, s’autoproclamant « impressionniste française », y réalisait entre autres portraits et autoportraits photographiques. Miroslav Tichý vivait dans la solitude et prenait, à la dérobée, des photos de femmes à Prague au moyen d’un appareil photo fait main. Morton Bartlett réalisait secrètement lui aussi des figures en plâtre, la plupart féminines, puis les mettait en scène au travers de la photographie. Loulou, infirmière autrefois, sculpta sur le tard une foule de statuettes en argile représentant des personnages divers et parfois dérangeants. Chacun de ces artistes vécut une vie où la passion de l’image prit forme dans des conditions éprouvantes, rendant la découverte de leur travail encore plus troublante.

Il est paradoxal que ces «réalités particulières» soient devenues des sortes de légendes urbaines qui ont masqué les images étant pourtant à leur origine. Comme si les biographies extraordinaires de ces artistes empêchaient d’interpréter les objets et images qu’ils ont façonnés.

L’exposition RUMOURS incite à découvrir et apprécier les compositions fortes de sens de Bartlett, Godie, Loulou et Tichý. Non comme une collection d’histoires mais comme une collection d’images. Une invitation à reconsidérer ce qui a forgé le mythe que nous voulons croire être la «vraie histoire».

Miroslav Tichy
untitled
mixed media on photography
17,8 x 13 cm

www.madmusee.be

Miroslav Tichy: Drawings & Photographs" at Susanne Zander, Cologne

The blurred, voyeuristic snapshots by the enigmatic Czech-born photographer Miroslav Tichý (1926 - 2011) are legendary and coveted by the art market, critics and museum audiences alike. His late rise to fame in the mid-2000s is considered a unique phenomenon in recent art history.

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Tichý began a promising career in the late 40s as an up-and-coming avant-garde painter with clear influences by Matisse and the German Expressionists. But the totalitarian imperatives of the socialist regime increasingly began to alienate the young artist, who refused to comply with the official cultural agenda. As the incompatibility between his artistic interests and the impositions by state grows, Tichý moves away increasingly. He becomes an outsider, paying for his autonomy with longer spells in jail and in psychiatric institutions. Tichý turns more and more to photography. His radical antagonism towards the establishment remains consistent even after the iron curtain has come down.

In the early 1990s Galerie Susanne Zander showed photographs by the then rather unknown Miroslav Tichý. Now, another part of the prolific oeuvre that has hereto remained largely unshown and unknown is brought to light in an exhibition that provides new insight and surprising parallels within the artists oeuvre. Both the form and the content in the paintings and drawings on display attest to the artist's recurrent obsessions: the emphasis on selected body parts, the placid eroticism, the cut-up in the composition, the aesthetic of imperfection and of course the subject matter: the female, Tichý's eternal object of desire.



Miroslav Tichý's work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the MMK - Museum for Modern Art (Frankfurt), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the F.C. Gundlach Collection in the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen (Hamburg) and the Antoine de Galbert Collection (Paris).



"Miroslav Tichy: Drawings & Photographs"
02.04. - 12.04.2012
Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne

Galerie Susanne Zander @ INDEPENDENT NY

Galerie Susanne Zander at the 3rd edition
of Independent 2012, New York
Prewiev: Thursday March 8th, 12 - 4 pm

Horst Ademeit
Miroslav Tichy
Michael Paule

Independent

March 8 - 11, 2012
548 West 22nd Street,
New York, NY 10011
www.independentnewyork.com

The artist with the bad camera

Courtesy Foundation Tichý Ocean

Miroslav Tichy in Moscow

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
23. 2. - 1. 4. 2012

Miroslav Tichý

untitled, undated
mixed media on photography
21 x 15 cm

www.mamm-mdf.ru

Horst Ademeit at Norma Mangione, Turin

Horst Ademeit
untitled, undated
mixed media on polaroid
11 x 9 cm

Over a period of more than twenty years Horst Ademeit (1937-2010) built up an archiveof thousands of photographs and texts. Although he considered himself an artist, Ademeit documented the impact of cold rays – radiations that he considered a healthhazard and a potential threat –with no particular artististic intent. To do so he usedmeasuring instruments and, in the margins of his Polaroid photos he meticulouslynoted down the circumstances, dates, and descriptions, which became increasinglycramped over the years.

His photographs are divided into two groups: 6006 numbered “daily photos”, takeneach day in his apartment, and “observation photos” taken in the Düsseldorf districtwhere he lived.

The exhibition will show selections from both series and the film Ademeit (2010) will be screened. Directed by the artist Michael Bauer and the director Marcus Werner Hed, the film was produced by Punderson Gardens. This documentary-portrait is a poignant journey into the work and life of Horst Ademeit, with an in-depth interview, an exploration of the places he lived in and which appear inhis photographs, and his own interpretation of them.

The way Ademeit conveys aspects of time and biography allow comparisons with conceptual artists such as Hanne Darboven, On Kawara, and Roman Opalka. And heshows how it is customary in art to find an openness to non-official scientific theories and to personal obsessions. But together with his radically systematic nature and unparalleled perseverance, the most interesting thing is that, as he himself declared, his method was an activity that kept him alive, and an objective reality through which he was able to counter invisible, subjective forces.

Galleria Norma Mangione

Via Matteo Pescatore 17, Torino

Tel. +39 011 5539231

info@normamangione.com

Mousse Magazine and Publishing
Via De Amicis 53,
20123, Milano, Italy
T: +39 02 8356631

www.moussemagazine.it

Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room-Phalli´s Field, 1965,

Seeing spots: Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern - in pictures
At Tate Modern, London
from 9 February to 5 June 2012

The polka dot-obsessed octogenerian artist Yayoi Kusama's work has gone from free love and foraging in the 50s and 60s to infinity rooms filled with mirrors and twinkling lights in this decade. Her life has seen body parties in Andy Warhol's Factory and friendships with Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd and Joseph Cornell – and this retrospective takes it all in.

www.tate.org.uk