Götz Diergarten Photographs

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Texts by: Carsten Ahrens, Matthias Harder, Petra Helck German, English 2021, 160 Pages, 98 Ills. Hardcover 272mm x 247mm
ISBN: 978-6-00002679-0
Texts by: Carsten Ahrens, Matthias Harder, Petra Helck German, English 2010, 160 Pages, 98 Ills. Hardcover 272mm x 247mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-2563-7

In his series featuring German façades, French beach cabanas, and British spa architecture, Götz Diergarten (*1972 in Mannheim) examines the outward appearance of different types of everyday buildings. Following in the footsteps of the Becher School , Diergarten’s works are conceptually rigorous, with a documentary-style straightforwardness. Diergarten’s originality, however, lies in the fact that he adds color as a dimension to this austere concept. In his photographs of standard beach cabanas, it is the color that expresses a sense of originality and uniqueness. In the METROpolis series, he transforms the materials and patterns of passageways, tunnels, and railway platforms into abstract color spaces and fields, so that they resemble the kind of American color photography by artists such as William Eggleston or Stephen Shore. Exhibition schedule: Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, August 21–October 31, 2010

In his series featuring German façades, French beach cabanas, and British spa architecture, Götz Diergarten (*1972 in Mannheim) examines the outward appearance of different types of everyday buildings. Following in the footsteps of the Becher School , Diergarten’s works are conceptually rigorous, with a documentary-style straightforwardness. Diergarten’s originality, however, lies in the fact that he adds color as a dimension to this austere concept. In his photographs of standard beach cabanas, it is the color that expresses a sense of originality and uniqueness. In the METROpolis series, he transforms the materials and patterns of passageways, tunnels, and railway platforms into abstract color spaces and fields, so that they resemble the kind of American color photography by artists such as William Eggleston or Stephen Shore. Exhibition schedule: Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, August 21–October 31, 2010

»With an interest in the painterly aspect of the picture, the photographer gives a primordial importance to flatness and colour. His meticulous attention to detail reveals the banality of utilitarian spaces and objects, which are dispossessed from any time or space identification.«

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