foto: armin linke

exhibition             

alpine landscape in transitionn

08.02. - 21.03.2004

Basilico | Barbieri | Casolaro | Gursky | Guidi | Inderst | Linke | Schletterer | Spinatsch | Vaccari

.scapes - alpine landscape in transition, shows changes in the landscapes of the alpine area.

Analytically and impressively, individually and "untouristically", these ten
selected artists turned their camera on the landscape. Video footage and
photography are at the same time documentation and the artistic will to
express. These two simultaneously sensitive for a perception far from
television- and postcard images.

Gabriele Basilico's black and white photographs since the 80's bear witness
to the increasing changes in the landscape in regions of increasing
mobility and urban outposts. He has captured Bolzano's peripheries too, as a silent observer.

Olivo Barbieri's works in the exhibition were shot from a helicopter - the
bird's eye perpective shows mutations caused by a human hand, which seen from a distance are imprinted in the landscape like patterns.

Gea Casolaro studies our perception of actions, gestures and every-day
situations through photography. Her pictures capture unspectacular details, which are all the more meaningful for a conscious perception of reality.

Andreas Gursky's works show the changes in the space we inhabit and way in which we move around in it. A lot of his works are value-free allegories of
nature, achitecture, human beings and technology.

Guido Guidi focuses on objects he has zoomed in on extremely. Thereby he not only challenges his own perception of space but also that of the beholder. In his work strada ovest he also collects and composes traces of an anonymous reality of the roadside.

Johannes Inderst pays special attention to creeping changes in the
landscape. In the cycle of works "forest" he shows us the oppressive and
alienating atmosphere of areas of over-forestation with completely dead
undergrowth.

Armin Linke combines asthetic, anthropological and social motives of the
human being encountering his or her surroundings. The film Alpi in movimenta captures the difference between natural and artificial rivers, which have both become characteristic for the alpine region.

Nikolaus Schletterer tracks down transformation and use of landscape by
human beings. Minimal human interference coupled with light is, the area of tension that he is interested in.

Jules Spinatsch's works of winter-sport events are located somwhere between landscape and sculpture. He caputres artificially produced landscapes in Snow Management. An overly close and deformed perspective underline the sculptural value of these subjects.

Franco Vaccari fixes his gaze on the landscape on the backs of trucks,
journeying from Modena to Graz. His perception of the landscape is therefore limited to fragments. Increased mobility lets space appear more and more as the travesing of territories.