LAND_SCOPE. Fotoarbeiten von Roni Horn bis Thomas Ruff aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung

The constant land gain of photographic art

The exhibition and catalogue are dedicated to the depiction of landscape in postmodern and contemporary photographic art. Since the end of the 18th century, the art of Romanticism has characterised our idea of idyllic and sublime nature. Painters such as Philipp Otto Runge, but above all Caspar David Friedrich, pushed it into the centre of attention. However, Friedrich went beyond Runge's symbolisation of universal creative power in metaphysical fantasy landscapes by transforming real landscape scenes into pictures full of symbolic meaning as a brilliant technical designer. Many of these paintings are captivating in their enrapturing and oppressive depiction of spatial expanse and emptiness. A way of seeing that also characterises contemporary photographic art, which increasingly focuses on the transformation of natural and agricultural landscapes and addresses the effects of industrialisation - including agriculture - and urban sprawl. The book brings together works by around 60 artists from the DZ BANK art collection. Divided into seven chapters rich in images and text, this synopsis presents a wide range of ways in which artists can approach landscape in the medium of photography: different types of landscape such as ideal landscapes or deserted areas, political territories, agricultural landscapes; the formal forces and potential for abstraction in the photographic image are also presented, so that landscape is negotiated as a concept or even appears as a digital structure.artists:
Lucinda Devlin, William Eggleston, Beate Gütschow, Raphael Hefti, Dan Holdsworth, Carsten Höller, Roni Horn, Axel Hütte, Magdalená Jetelova, Sven Johne, Peter Keetman, Robert Longo, Richard Mosse, Heinrich Riebesehl, Thomas Ruff, Adrian Sauer, Stephen Shore, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Anna Vogel et al.

Exhibition:
Munich City Museum, 30/11/2018 - 26/5/2019