Anatoliy Babiychuk
Anatoliy Babiychuk, Anna Barfuss, Adrian Buschmann, Selma Doborac, Karine Fauchard, Julian Feritsch, Manfred Hubmann, Ludwig Kittinger & Fernando Mesquita, Lazar Lyutakov, Anja Manfredi, Christoph Meier, Julia Müller-Maenher, Wolfgang Obermair und Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Georg Petermichl, Max Schaffer, Antoine Turillon, Franz Zar, Marcin Zarzeka
Martin Vesely (Kurator)
Exhibition opening: Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 7 pm
Introduction: Andreas Spiegl, Vienna
Duration: 9 March to 30 April 2011
Photography is explored here at its margins under the curatorial eye of Martin Vesely at the Galerie Fotohof…
“(…) What are the essential characteristics of photography?
The lens itself sees nothing; it perceives vicariously. The transfer occurs by means of a (technical) apparatus, a construct. The incoming density, the information is replicated on a medium in analogue or digital form.
It is only in the short timeframes of the exposure itself that the photograph is allowed to exist as a photograph, with this partial loss of control capturing the photograph’s auratic nature.
Too much is indeterminately recorded in that empty space, at first without meaning, the informal having the opportunity to be borne to the surface, the emanation of the referent (Roland Barthes) shown by means of an imprint, a track.
The reference speculates with knowledge, as it were, wanting to be decoded, with the past updated only in the act of contemplation. Mistrust is always apposite, for too many factors impact the process of creation.
Index, track, imprint, referentiality, technical reproducibility – these are all terms which are now deeply embedded in our theoretical vocabulary, terms which admittedly are debated first and foremost in photography and the theory of photography, but which from the very outset also served as fundamental parameters of art and aesthetics in general.” (…)
Martin Vesely
