State of the Art Photography

Düsseldorf

„The future does not belong to pure photography, but to the free arts,“ says Andreas Gursky, one of the advisors of the State of the Art Photography exhibition. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf asked for photographers who are tipped to be the movers and the shakers in this field in the coming years. In an attempt to reflect this remit, each of the 40 artists/photographers, who are feature in this summary exhibition is represented by a collection of images or an installation. The photographers were proposed by Andreas Gursky, Thomas Weski, Klaus Biesenbach, Udo Kittelmann, FC Gundlach, Thomas Seelig, Andrea Holzherr, and Werner Lippert. They hail from America, Europe, and South Africa; other continents and cultural spaces will be addressed at a later date.

Photography is currently going through a period of change as not only digital revolution is proceeding, but aesthetics and the way photos are ‘staged’ are changing. What is striking is that the selectes artists are turning away from emptiness and are allowing the sublime, the aural, to shine through, as is the case with Andreas Mühe’s photographs of Obersalzberg. In other words, photography has not just arrived in art, it has also obviously rediscovered itself.

Due to this exhibition, art publishing house Feymedia published State of the Art Photography. Therein, 6 pages are dedicated to each of the 40 international artists and include biographies, bibliographies, and illustrations of their work.

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

February 4th – May 6th, 2012
Ehrenhof 2
40479 Düsseldorf
Germany

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