PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY HIPPOLYTE
Kalevankatu 18 B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
+358 9 612 33 44, www.hippolyte.fi
Open: Tue-Fri 12:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-16:00 (Closed 25.-27.6.2010)

4.6.-2.7.2010
CLAUDIA ANGELMAIER
re-presented

Artist Talk Friday 4 June 5 p.m. Welcome!
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The protagonists of Angelmaier’s large-scale photographic works are books, postcards or transparencies and slides depicting copies of “masterpieces of art history”. In her exhibition at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Angelmaier explores the possibilities of layering, displacement, and double exposure in a number of variations.  

In the series Rückenfiguren the front and back sides of ordinary art postcards are perfectly superimposed and then enlarged to the size of the original. For the series Works on Glass she photographed glass slides, worn with age, of historical paintings. The almost monochrome appearance of the images on the slides is coated with a veritable second skin of oxidation. 

The more abstract works from the series 25 Farben are based on a reproduction of Gerhard Richter's 25 Farben, in which monochrome color squares form a grid of randomly placed colors. Through double exposure and depending on the degree of displacement of the layered images, the original color squares are doubled and even quadrupled in Angelmaier's pieces. The artist thus transforms the original image and its context into a new work with different blends and patterns of color.

The exhibition is realised in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Finnland.

 
Claudia Angelmaier (b. 1972, Göppingen, Germany) lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin, Germany.  The play with the images of art and their history is at the heart of Claudia Angelmaier’s work, placing a particular focus on the pictures and their mechanical reproduction, the material image and its contextual situation.

Claudia Angelmaier was in residency at the Cable Factory in Helsinki in HIAP - Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme during November-December 2009. The residency was organized as a collaboration between HIAP and Goethe-Institut Finnland.

Claudia Angelmaier, Tänzerin, 2009

For more information and press images, please contact:
Petronella Grönroos, exhibition co-ordinator / Photgraphic Gallery Hippolyte +358 9-612 33 44, firstname.lastname@hippolyte.fi