BY Argus Firmansyah
Picture recording using the technology of photographic camera were developed in the modern era, at the end of 17th century in Europe. Supported by the art market, in the last ten years photographic technology even touches the commercial domain. Recent development of German photography can be seen through the works of three contemporary photographers of the country exhibited under the title“realer raum bild raum” in Soemardja Gallery.
The art using photography as medium was developed by the three photographers during the 1980’s. They created works strongly related to the time and place where they underwent the creative process.
Ute Eskildsen stated in his curatorial notes that the emphasized on “place” in the title of the exhibition is the key to bridge two opposite concept of “real” and “conceptual.” He did this to approach his work with a more actual point of view.
The same concept was materialized by Heidi Specker through a series of photographs of abstract architectures, division of city landscape by Susanne Brügger, while Thomas Demand explored the spatial construction. The methods of artistic production as well as the mediums used in this exhibition will give new perspective on photography to Indonesian photographers.
Through his work Thomas Demand showed the discourse of German’s contemporary photography by putting the art of photography as a model, instead of emphasizing on the reality of the object.
The reality in Thomas’ investigation was made simple, by making a model with a cardboard then it is represented with a photographic technique. What is seen in the photographs is not aimed to explain the true meaning of the models created by Thomas.
“What is visible is not always what it seems and the meaning can also be different. This exhibition is an effort to motivate the photography enthusiasts to investigate reality through photography techniques,” said Andreas Zürn, Director of Goethe Institute, Bandung.
Topography of urban development was also presented in the works of Susanne Brügger. The concept of “Map Work” in Susanne’s work presented a technique of photographical art in the domain of architecture and urban development with Paris as the object. She divided the city landscape into separate parts with a certain system and particular representations. Relation and association of photographic art are presented ironically by Susanne.
The photographic art of Heidi Specker is more dominant on the detail of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) colors. Specker conducted this artistic exploration by using computer technology.
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