Candida Hofer: Contexts; Semper Oper Dresden - Rilegato

Burkert, Herbert; Boddy, Jane

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ISBN 10: 3753306428 ISBN 13: 9783753306421

Casa editrice: Walther Konig, 2024

Riassunto

Höfer applies her majestic and formal photographic approach to the collections and hidden spaces of a Dresden museum

Both artist’s book and exhibition catalog, Contexts reveals Candida Höfer’s (born 1944) exacting photographs of Dresden’s Semper Oper. The opera house becomes a lens reflecting the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen’s archival collections containing prints by Dürer and Piranesi.

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In this book, an interplay unfolds between Candida Höfer's 2023 photographs of the Semper Oper and selected pictures from Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, offering both deep insights into Höfer's artistic practice and a reflection on the artistic representation of space.

At once artist's book and exhibition catalogue, this publication is both an exploration of Candida Höfer's artistic practice and the contexts in which this practice takes place. In 2023, Höfer photographs in Dresden's Semperoper: spaces of rehearsal, storage, performance, strolling and working in the opera house become a lens that reflects the view of the context of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in the Kupferstich-Kabinett as a place of research, collecting, archiving, exhibiting and working. The focus is on the period from the mid-16th century to the invention of photography in 1839 and includes woodcuts, engravings and etchings by Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, among others.

Text: Jane Boddy, Doreen Mende.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Walther Konig
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3753306428
• ISBN 13: 9783753306421
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 88
• Redattore: Mende Doreen
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile