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Art Photography

Unsharp #01

An attempt to stimulate the viewer’s imagination. In his essay Between Imitation and Simulation – The Blurred Image from 2006, Bernd Hüppauf dedicates himself to the phenomenon of the blurred image and its reception. According to Hüppauf, blurring is ‘a visual simulation that violates the rules of imitation and documentation’. The blurring removes the uniqueness of the image (see Hüppauf, p. 271).

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The dispute over the meaning of the detail and the sharpness that grew out of this controversy is not only based on a pure media debate, but also has its origin in the epistemological question of whether the truth is in the objectively measurable (sharpness) or in the essence of the thing (the Fuzziness) can be found. Where the blurring affects not only parts of the picture but the entire photo, it is primarily about the transfer of a feeling or impression. The object is replaced by its representation or symbol. The image becomes a symbol and photography is elevated to a universal language due to the basic visual constitution of the world (cf. Stiegler, pp. 19-22).

(1) Bernd Hüppauf: Between imitation and simulation – the blurred image. In: Bernd Hüppauf and Christoph Wulf (ed.): Image and imagination. Munich: Wilhelm Fink 2006. p 254-277. (2) Bernd Stiegler: Theory History of Photography. Munich: Wilhelm Fink of 2006.

EXHIBITION

07.12.-28.12..2018
panoptikum. WERKSCHAU 2018
offSpace | galerie panoptikum.
Ruderstallgassen 4, A-5133 Gilgenberg aW (OÖ)/AUT
15.09.-31.10.2017
panoptikum. WERKSCHAU 2017
offSpace | galerie panoptikum.
Ruderstallgassen 4, A-5133 Gilgenberg aW (OÖ)/AUT
18.-21.05.2017
MAF 2017 – Metropolitain Art Fair (5th edition)
Gardenpalais Schoenborn, Vienna/AUT

PRODUCTION

Title: Out of focus # 01 | Year: 2013 | Print: 30×30 cm | Ink: Epson Ultra Chrome K3 Pigment Ink | Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Ultrasmooth, 305 g / m² | Framing: Museum framing white, (approx) 60×40 cm thickness: 30 mm, gallery cardboard, museum pass partout, white, thickness: 3 mm, museum back cardboard, acid-free | Glass: Clarity 92% / museum glass | Series: 13 single shots | Edition A: 1 (+1 AE) |

Title: Out of focus # 01 | Year: 2013 | Print 1: 50×50 cm | Ink: Epson Ultra Chrome K3 Pigment Ink | Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Ultrasmooth, 305 g / m² | Framing: Museum framing white, (approx) 90×70 cm thickness: 30 mm, gallery cardboard, museum pass partout, white, thickness: 3 mm, museum back cardboard, acid-free | Glass: Clarity 92% / museum glass | Series: 13 single shots | Edition B: 1 (+1 AE) |