MIXED MEDIA (II)
EXHIBITION Mar 17 — Apr 22, 2016
Exhibition Text
The exhibition series Mixed Media, which presents photography in dialogue with other media, continues in a second show, About Abstraction. The exhibit addresses free forms – lines, surfaces, structures – ranging from the 1920s through the 1980s. From constructivism to minimalism, the spectrum includes drawing, graphic works, and sculptural works that correspond with photographic pieces. The complex formal language of the abstract motifs across various media reflects the development of abstract art in the twentieth century and is manifested in two tendencies: in a constructivist, geometric approach on the one hand and in a lyrical, expressive stance, emphasizing materiality and tactility, on the other. Assembled here by these approaches, the groupings serve to continuously spark new and unusual visual conversations.
In his photo-theoretical explanations in subjektive fotografie 2 (1955), Otto Steinert defined the optical-technical abstractions possible in the medium, beyond the mere representation of reality, as the freest form of “absolute photographic creation.” Moving freely from interwar modernism to Steinert and his cohorts and into the present, the exhibition Mixed Media (II): About Abstraction weaves together a dense net of related artistic perspectives. Transcending eras and media, these views represent a central theme in twentieth-century art.
We would like to thank the artists and their estates, Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Derda (Berlin), Galerie Fahnemann (Berlin), Galerie Michael Haas (Berlin/Zurich) and Galerie Leu (München) for their kind collaboration.
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Artists
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Kilian Breier
1931–2011
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Peter Brüning
1929−1970
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Lucien Clergue
1934–2014
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Jaromír Funke
1896–1945
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Günter Fruhtrunk
1923−1982
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Lotte Jacobi
1896–1990
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Heinz Hajek-Halke
1898–1983
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Takashi Kijima
1920–2011
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Kaoru Ohto
1929–2020
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Charlotte Posenenske
1930−1985
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Carol Rama
1918−2015
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Man Ray
1890–1976
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László Moholy-Nagy
1895–1946
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Albert Renger-Patzsch
1897–1966
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Jaroslav Rössler
1902–1990
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August Sander
1876–1964
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Kurt Schwitters
1887−1948
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Otto Steinert
1915–1978
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Christer Strömholm
1918–2002
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Jan Tschichold
1902−1974
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Vkhutemas Workshops
1920–1927
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Hans Uhlmann
1900–1975