Vernissage: Philipp Goldbach | Bilder Daten Sätze

In the organizer's words:

SETAREH presents the second solo exhibition by Philipp Goldbach, which will be presented as part of Düsseldorf Photo+. The vernissage will take place on Thursday, May 16 from 6 to 8 pm. The artist will be present.

How do you find us?
SETAREH
Königsallee 27-31
40212 Düsseldorf

The exhibition will be on view from May 16 to June 15.

Goldbach is an artist who consistently produces stunning photo-based works that explore the relationship between time, language and image. We are thrilled to present his latest projects as part of this important festival.

Many of Philipp Goldbach's works are created in collaboration with institutions. They create space for an intellectual discourse in which the artworks themselves become open channels of this conversation. Goldbach draws attention to questions around authorship and reproduction (themes that are re-contextualized through the camera) by photographically engaging deeply with the works of other artists. For Goldbach, photography is a form of communication that follows its own rules and conventions. Her images are created in a collective act. In Goldbach's work, they become objects that look equally at the past, the history of photography and its changing status in the present.

In his latest project, Philipp Goldbach explores the work of the artist Lucio Fonta-na. The opening of painting into three-dimensional space, which Fontana accomplished with his "Concetto spaziale" ("spatial concept") in the 1940s by cutting up and piercing the canvases, is taken up by Philipp Goldbach with photographic means. He uses one of the oldest techniques of analog photography, the photogram: the cameraless image of an object, in which it is placed on photographic paper and exposed. Lucio Fontana's radical ideas are echoed in Goldbach's examination of his originals by bringing them into direct physical contact with the analog photographic material. The sections of negative space are realized as spectral positives, a black figurative presence that mirrors Fontana's radical interventions. These works have been produced with the approval of the Fondazione Lucio Fontana and in collaboration with international museums such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum Folkwang, Essen and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

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SETAREH presents the second solo exhibition by Philipp Goldbach, which is presented as part of Düsseldorf Photo+. The vernissage will take place on Thursday, May 16th from 6 to 8pm. The artist will be present.

How to find us:
SETAREH
Königsallee 27-31
40212 Düsseldorf

As an artist that consistently realizes stunning photo-based work which explores the relationship between time, language and image, we are thrilled to present his newest research in the context of this important festival.

Many of Philipp Goldbach's works are in collaboration with institutions, creating space for an intellectual dialog to take place, in which artworks become open channels for this conversation. Goldbach draws attention to questions around authorship and reproduction (themes that are re-contextualized by the camera), by closely engaging with the works of other artists. For Goldbach, photography is understood as a line of communication that lends itself to its own rules and conventions. The shaping of photography is a collective act, where, its images become objects of its own reflections on the past, on photographic history, and its everchanging status as an art form, recent and modern.

In his latest project, Philipp Goldbach engages in a dialogue with the work of artist Lucio Fon-tana. The opening of painting into three dimensional real space, introduced by Fontana in his 1940s "Concetto spaziale" ("spatial concept") where he sliced and pierced through his canva-ses, is taken up by Philipp Goldbach with photographic means. To do so, the artist uses one of the oldest techniques of analog photography, the photogram: a camera-less image realized by an object being placed on photographic paper and exposed to light. Lucio Fontana's radical ex-pansion of painting is echoed in Goldbach's examination of his originals by putting them in direct physical contact with the analog photographic material. The slices of negative space are realized as spectral positives, a black figurative presence that echoes Fontana's radical incisions. These works have been developed with the consent of the Fondazione Lucio Fontana and in collabo-ration with international museums such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum Folkwang, Essen and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.