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18. October 2000 - 28. January 2001 Opens: Wednesday, 18th October 2000, 7 pm. | |||||||||
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Shirin Neshat born 1957 in Qazvin, Iran lives in New York Stripped, 1996 Gelatin-Silber-Druck mit Tusche 35.5 x 28 cm Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz Inv. no.: 6802, purchased November 1996 Short View |
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A large and seminal exhibition of photography is in the programme of the New Gallery of the City of Linz for the 2000/2001 season. The object of this exhibition with the title "Photography - the Collection" is the remarkable permanent collection of the Museum itself, comprised in ensembles and in important single images, it is now being shown in an extensive form for the first time. The event is a cross-section and photo historical profile at one and the same time with 150 of some 500 exhibits elucidating singularities and specifics as also revealing phenomena in the development of the history of photography; not least in comparison with the other disciplines of the graphic arts. Starting with landscapes and portraits of the 19th Century (Julia Margaret Cameron, Felix Beato, Wilhelm Burger, Nadar, Lewis Carroll, Pascal Sébah) the exhibition moves on through the avantgarde of the twenties and thirties of the 20th Century with images of among others Karl Blossfeldt, Walter Peterhans, Herbert Bayer, André Kértesz and Alexander Rodtschenko. Important Austrian photographers of the post 1945 period such as Inge Morath, Erich Lessing, Franz Hubmann, Leo Kandl or Heinz Cibulka are placed in juxtaposition with Mario Giacomelli, Dieter Appelt, Candida Höfer, Bernhard Prinz or Shirin Neshat the photographer and video artist who has recently attracted much attention. The limits of photography have long been raised, exploded, interwoven with multimedia and brought into contact with other techniques, modes of thought and aesthetic practices. Arnulf Rainer, Günter Selichar, Ilse Haider and Eva Schlegel provide examples of this manner. So too are Valie Export, Hermann J. Painitz, James Casebere, Lois Renner and Irene Andessner. This exhibition makes accessible a remarkable and until now, only little known aspect of the Linz collection. It is a dramatic incursion, rich in discoveries, into over 160 years of richly varied photographic history. |
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