"Color of Shadow C 1022" appears to be a work of Concrete Art but is in fact a photograph taken by Hiroshi Sugimoto in 2005. This somewhat enigmatic, accurate, and unflustered work is part of the Arthur de Ganay Collection. Born in Paris and a resident of Berlin for six years now, de Ganay has "become addicted to art with body and soul". His treasures form the special showcase of the forthcoming art KARLSRUHE.
The exhibition, shown in Hall 1, provides an insight into the focal points of the architect's passion. He had already begun to collect photographs during his studies in the mid-90s but then cast his eye in a different direction in Berlin: since his move to the banks of the Spree he has been particularly interested in German photographic art, concentrating on large formats. For art KARLSRUHE he's building a faithful reproduction of his Berlin premises, where he presents predominantly conceptual photography in Köpenicker Strasse in Kreuzberg, in order to give visitors as exact a mental image as possible of a composition of space and art.
The dimensions and the impressive perspectives of this matter-of-fact and analytical altercation with reality are provocative: largely unmanipulated interiors by Candida Höfer, unfinished carcasses of autobahns left over from the "German Unification Project", captured by Hans Christian Schink, Lewis Baltz' data-processing centre of a bank - these are pictures that, cold and distant to start with, put the view-finder on the fruits of human labour with a critical but judgement-free eye.
By the way: art fair curator Ewald Karl Schrade has planned 18 sculpture zones again for art KARLSRUHE 2009 (5-8 March), among them the presentation of extensive media works by Fabrizio Plessi on the stand of the Dr Dorothea van der Koelen Gallery of Mainz/Venice.
The exhibition, shown in Hall 1, provides an insight into the focal points of the architect's passion. He had already begun to collect photographs during his studies in the mid-90s but then cast his eye in a different direction in Berlin: since his move to the banks of the Spree he has been particularly interested in German photographic art, concentrating on large formats. For art KARLSRUHE he's building a faithful reproduction of his Berlin premises, where he presents predominantly conceptual photography in Köpenicker Strasse in Kreuzberg, in order to give visitors as exact a mental image as possible of a composition of space and art.
The dimensions and the impressive perspectives of this matter-of-fact and analytical altercation with reality are provocative: largely unmanipulated interiors by Candida Höfer, unfinished carcasses of autobahns left over from the "German Unification Project", captured by Hans Christian Schink, Lewis Baltz' data-processing centre of a bank - these are pictures that, cold and distant to start with, put the view-finder on the fruits of human labour with a critical but judgement-free eye.
By the way: art fair curator Ewald Karl Schrade has planned 18 sculpture zones again for art KARLSRUHE 2009 (5-8 March), among them the presentation of extensive media works by Fabrizio Plessi on the stand of the Dr Dorothea van der Koelen Gallery of Mainz/Venice.
