New Release: SUBRAUM from Johannes Naumann / Gregor Sailer / Stefan Tuschy.

SUBRAUM

Johannes Naumann

Gregor Sailer

Stefan Tuschy

The spaces documented here in Germany’s Ruhr area by Johannes Naumann, Gregor Sailer and Stefan Tuschy are normally not freely accessible. It is the hermetically sealed world of archives, underground bunkers, storage facilities and tunnel systems which, as hidden lifelines, keep the pulse of our modern lives alive. With the camera’s inquisitive gaze and a compositional intent they explore this hidden world and uncover a certain functional aesthetic: monolithic shapes, endless corridors lined with shelves, the perspective of vanishing points, and the highly specific colour palette of items of everyday use. These literally underground locations are usually omitted in the presentation of architecture. In their coolly neutral images Sailer / Naumann / Tuschy cast light on these suppressed - as it were - sites of storage, protection and technology.

Authors: Gerald Matt
Language: Deutsch
Format: 24,5 x 30 cm
ISBN: 978-3-902675-40-8
Price: 29.00 €

OPENING - Susi Krautgartner / Leo Kandl. Thursday 18. Nov. 7 pm

Susi Krautgartner, from Uncanny Valley

Leo Kandl. from Free Portraits

Leo Kandl – Free Portraits

Susi Krautgartner – Uncanny Valley

Opening: Thrusday, 18. Nov. 7 pm

Words: Stefanie Hoch, Curater, Landesgalerie, Linz

Leo Kandl has immersed himself in the genre of portrait photography for several decades, whereby he unites the conceptual documentary process with the subjectivity and individuality of the object. In „Free Portraits“ Kandl made contact with his models through newspaper advertisements. Cities such as Vienna, London, New York, Tehran, Moscow and Havana became the public backdrop for works that at times give the impression of being snapshots from the streets, or private photographs. Kandl’s style allows the observer to engage with the subject emotionally as the potentially tense meeting of two strangers in role play, the subject and photographer, produces images characterized by curiosity and an occasionally subtle, erotically charged atmosphere.

“Uncanny Valley” is named after a well-known hypothesis of roboticist Masahiro Mori. Mori’s theory describes the empirically measureable effect of an emotional response to non-human entities. Essentially, human-likeness triggers empathy. However, when an almost perfect human-likeness is achieved, strong negative emotions can be detected. Susi Krautgartner invokes this effect through the medium of self-portrait which express familiar role models and stereo types.

Guest speaker at the exhibition is Stefanie Hoch, Curator of the LANDESGALERIE LINZ.

Artist biographies are available at www.fotohof.at

This evening we will also present our latest publication:

Leo Kandl, Free Portraits

Hardcover, 105 pages, 82 color photos

with a text from Jurko Prochasko

Fotohof edition 2010, Vol. 109

ISBN: 978-3-902675-09-5

€ 33,-

Fotohof edition at OFF-PRINT PARIS

Offprint Paris, starting this year for the first time, is an artist book fair dedicated to photography publications.

Focusing on independant publishing companies, Offprint aspires to be a meeting place for Artists, Photographers, Graphic designers, Curators, Artist directors, Journalists, Collectors … who deal with "printed" photography books magazines, zines, prints.

Entrance is free.

http://www.offprintparis.com

Espace Kiron

10 rue de la Vaquerie

75011 Paris, France

from 3 pm - 9 pm (sunday from 11 am - 5 pm)