Along with two monographic exhibitions by Ing Dick and Susa Templin, photography will move to the Concrete Art Museum in Ingolstadt (MKK) on June 27, 2021. Two women, two generations, two positions: both do not see themselves as photographers, but only use the medium. Each independently occupies one floor of the MKK and negotiates the relationship between space, light and time in its own way.
On the occasion of artist Inge Dick’s 80th birthday, the museum, together with the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design, is showing the latest continuation of his project “Jahrsleicht Weiss”. It effectively documents the Austrian’s creative life theme: the inexhaustible variety of daylight colors. Artist Susa Templin sees herself between painting and sculpture, the medium of which is analog photography. For his exhibition he developed completely new installations from photo collages, which he apparently adapted on the second floor of the exhibition building on Tranktorstrae.
Both artists have a particular approach to photography and represent a reflexive approach to it: photography becomes a medium as well as a material, focusing on its own laws and the conditions of its existence. The central question about the role of light, time and space arising in the photo-based works of Inge Dick and Susa Templin may be a similar one. The artistic answers they find for themselves produce surprisingly different results. By 20th July, two worlds of thought of two artists of different generations will also meet on the ground floor as an art dialogue.
Space ?? Light ?? Time: Inge Dick
What color is the light? Ing Dick has documented with scientific accuracy the infinite variety of colors visible through the optical lens of a camera. Using experimental and poetic photography as well as extensive film material, she explores the multifaceted nature of light, which is often hidden from prying eyes. Four-part film series ?? Jahreslicht Weiss ?? 2012 – 2015 is the major work of his work. In this, changes in light and color of different seasons, severe differences in light intensity and color, all colors except white are visible.
Over the years now, a large number of individual works have emerged through digital film: Ing Dick assembles film stills into photographic tableaux. In the Ingolstadt exhibition, large-format striped photographs with different light sequences can be seen with light colors for two to three days in spring, summer, fall and winter. For the first time, the artist selects individual colors from each season’s variety of colors and displays them as large monochrome squares. It fills the entire first floor with the color spectacle of the four seasons.
The exhibition, curated by Dr Gerda Ridler, will then be on view at the LENTOS Art Museum in Linz and the Conceptual Art Foundation in Soest.
Space ?? Light ?? Timing: Susa Templin
Susa Templin brings her idea of photography into the room?? In the literal and double sense: the artist establishes ?? local essence?? ?? Blank space from pictures of blank space?? and reacts to the conditions of light and time in the museum. He builds a maze on the second floor. A complex structure of steel girders runs through a very narrow but extremely long room. They hold plexiglass panes on which overlaid photographs of architectural details can be seen. Visitors walk around them, standing in front of, back and behind the photographs, becoming part of the motifs themselves for others in the room. At the same time, concrete stairs, handrails, house walls and much more become abstract, they become “spatial essence”. In these spatially tangible photo overlays.
material with exhibitions
Comprehensive Catalog Inge Dick. light time?? Hermer Verlag, the result of a collaboration between the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design, the LENTOS Art Museum in Linz, the Conceptual Art Foundation in Soest, and the Museum for Concrete Art. ISBN: 978-3-7774-3763-7
Shortly after the opening, the catalog “Susa Templin” will be published. Light, space and time?? For the presentation of the work of Susa Templin at the MKK and various groups of works and exhibition projects by the artist from recent years. ISBN: 978-3-86442-349-9
Museum of Concrete Art
Tractorstrasse 6 ?? 8
85049 Ingolstad
www.mkk-ingolstadt.de
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