Christof Rehm
borrowed landscapes

16 March - 3 April 2017
thursday - sunday, 5-7pm

extended until 30 April 2017 (on appointment only)

fotodiskurs presents Christof Rehm’s recent body of work Curonian Spit for the first time as a solo presentation. In this photographic work, Christof Rehm stratifies times and techniques as well as putting past and present on top of each other. He shows landscapes of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen through his lens, forms historical photographs with simple means to contemporary images. By using the ordinary camera of his old mobile phone he creates images of ominous timelessness.

 

Curonian Spit
East Prussia 1941. Clouds, mountains, sand and water. A barren landscape. The landscape of Thomas Mann, Albert Speer then. An harsh landscape. Recorded by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen. Shifting sand dunes. Dedicated to the Germanic nation. Aggressive landscape, ideological pictures? No negative prints, burned. No photo prints, lost in war. But a book. Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark. A printed landscape. A printed landscape rephotographed. Today. East Prussia 1941. The pictures of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen. Digital. Clouds, mountains, sand and water. Appropriated landscape. Curonian Spit. Outland, images by Christof Rehm. Reprinted on recycled paper. Overlaid times, moiré. Wide landscape…

fotodiskurs is a place for artistic photography and for dialogue about photography in Augsburg, Germany. In the exhibitions in the 'Pavillon am Berghof' the works of a photo artist are always confronted by a single work of a different artist. This single work can be from another contemporary or an artist of former times. Also a painting, a sculpture, literature or another artistic expression is possible.

To keep the discourse going there are further events, which take up, deepen, expand and look at the current topic from different perspectives. Therefore not exhibitory artists exchange their views about the presented art in the 'Jour fixe' that is hold at the second Sunday of each exhibition.

Again a booklet with literary and visual food for thoughts, showing not only the photographs but also excerpts of different sources (this time with Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, Alfred Ehrhardt and others), is released to go with the exhibition.