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Claudia Fährenkemper | Seltsame Schönheit

Past exhibitions exhibition
11 January - 8 February 2020
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Claudia Fährenkemper CC 01-16-1 Courtesy Denys Eyre Bower Bequest at Chiddingston Castle, UK, 2016 Pigment print on archival paper flush mounted to Aluminum Composite Panel 51 x 32 ½ inch (129.54 x 82.55 cm) image 53 x 34 ½ inch (134.62 x 87.63 cm) paper/mount Edition of 3 + 1 AP (#1/3)
Claudia Fährenkemper
CC 01-16-1 Courtesy Denys Eyre Bower Bequest at Chiddingston Castle, UK, 2016
Pigment print on archival paper flush mounted to Aluminum Composite Panel
51 x 32 ½ inch (129.54 x 82.55 cm) image
53 x 34 ½ inch (134.62 x 87.63 cm) paper/mount
Edition of 3 + 1 AP (#1/3)
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Exhibition Dates: January 11 – February 8, 2020

Guided Tour of the Exhibition with Claudia Fährenkemper: Saturday, January 11, 3pm

Public Reception: Saturday, January 11, 2-5pm

 

The gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Canada and second in North America of work by the famed German photographer, Claudia Fährenkemper (b. Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, 1959).

 

For more than thirty years, Fährenkemper has used photography to explore the strange beauty of man-made or natural objects by isolating them in some way from their environment. She studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1989 until 1995 and has since produced series in landscape, machinery, photomicroscopy, and most recently, formal portraits of 15th to 19th Century suits of armour.

 

This exhibition offers a survey of her practice that displays her talents in many genres. Illustrating her central thesis of using photography to transform reality and produce photographic images that visualize phenomena to enable comparative vision, Fährenkemper invites the observer to compare the information conveyed by her photographs with their own visible or remembered reality.

 

Fährenkemper has stated that “In a time of fast-paced life, continuous immersion in a subject of calm, concentration, and distance is essential for me. In this way, the images are also predominantly created in a slow, analogous process. In my long-term photographic series, I question objects in terms of form, volume and dimension: from the machine giants of the open-cast lignite mines to the microcosm of filigree insects, plant seeds etc., to the centuries-old knight and samurai armour that was so elaborately crafted for historical personalities. The process of creating the picture is always marked by the ambivalence between beauty and the supernatural forms of structures. For me, photography is a medium of a deeper appropriation of the world that can raise questions about our lives and survival.”

 

Since 1989, Claudia Fährenkemper has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and Asia. Her work has been collected by museums of art, as well as by museums of history, including the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea; Sprengel-Museum, Hannover, Germany; and the Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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