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Germany after 1989, in colour

Staff Reporter

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday
17 groups of work by 19 photographers will be on display

The third eye: One of the photos that will be on display at the exhibition ‘The World as One: Photography from Germany after 1989’.

Bangalore: Serious but not unsentimental, ironic but never sarcastic, this photographic essay of Germany after 1989 captures both complex themes as well as everyday life: the effects of German unification, the withdrawal of the Russian Army from Germany and the precipitous pace of economic and social change in the Far East.

These stories will be told through the sharp lenses of the photographers at an exhibition “The World as One: Photography from Germany after 1989,” at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, starting Saturday. The exhibition is organised by the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (‘Institute for Foreign Relations’) as part of their survey of 20th century German photography.

The collection of 1990’s documentary photography (in colour), will represent 17 groups of work by 19 photographers born between 1955 and 1971 — some of whom are “artists,” while others are photographic journalists.

Julia Sörgel’s work “Rasborka” (test of strength) relates the hard struggle after the end of the Cold War and is concerned with ethnic German immigrants from Kazakhstan. Axel Boesten and Kai-Olaf Hesse documents the bizarre landscapes around Dessau (a mixture of classical civilisation and post-industrial decline). Jitka Hanzlová travelled for over five years from 1990 onwards, back to the Bohemian village where she was born, and captured glimpses behind the façade in her series.

Personal roots also characterise the work of Ingo Taubhorn which portrays his own Westphalian family alongside the Berlin milieu he now lives in.

All these photographers received their training at academies in Essen, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Munich and Leipzig.

The exhibition will be inaugurated at 6.30 p.m. on April 5, by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, a fiction writer, curator and art critic. The exhibition will held between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. April 19.

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