14 March - 25 April 2009

 

From March 14 to April 25, 2009, Campagne Première is showing photographs by British artist Anna Leader.

In this new group of works Anna Leader has moved away from the depiction of people, previously a recurrent theme in her images. In their reduced colour, these photographs show situations in which landscapes become shrouded in darkness, snow or fog. This obscuring and therefore lack of information gives a new significance to what remains, its role distorted by the fact that the only visible things lose any literal interpretation and therefore let loose the imagination of the viewer, in a way now making him the subject. The viewer, being confronted with an un-clear and un-distinct image, might be taken into an irrational dimension. The lack of pictorial information makes her landscapes seem in turn absurd, threatening, sinister, amusing or even senseless. As the artist puts it, these images are a move towards "peripheries of visibility", at which point a previously hidden reality is introduced. What has taken place here? How should theses traces be interpreted? What has been hidden from the camera? The less the subject can be recognised and the less significant the place seems, the more the space opens up to something that cannot be represented in a single motif: the individual, psychologically charged interior landscapes.

"A Call to Come In", from a poem by the American poet Robert Frost, takes us into an intriguing, inner world.
Anna Leader, born 1979, lives and works in London and Locarno (CH).

 

 

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March 6 - April 18, 2009

Claudia Rogge's latest series "isolation" consistently links with her former works from the Rapport and UNIFORM series developed between 2004 and 2007.
The show is focused on the so called "foam pictures", which depict once more the artist's examination of the topics society, individual, and masses.
People are mingling with the crowd, and yet each one of them is on their own. The foam symbolises both adjacencies and isolation of the individual. The bubbles' fragile texture implies transience, dashed hopes and, eventually, the finite existence. The foam series evokes images of a fun society enjoying themselves at foam parties as well as the daily news that refer to consistently bursting bubbles. At the opening of the exhibition on March 6th, 2009, the visitor will be part of a foam installation.

Additionally, the exhibition will show works from the mask series. All of the depicted people are wearing masks. They apparently turn towards each other and interact, but at the same time they seem to be imprisoned in their masks and isolated from the outside world. The question is, wether or not they show their inner self or just play a role. Undetected, they act according to certain patterns and rules.

From May 19 to June 28, 2009, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) will show a cross section from Claudia Rogge's work in a solo exhibition.

 

Galerie Voss
Mühlengasse 3
D-40213 Düsseldorf
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