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Zoe Leonard. Photographs
02.04.2009 - 05.07.2009
Exhibition | PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE | KUNST
The Pinakothek der Moderne is staging this American artist's first retrospective. The focus is being placed on Zoe Leonard's photographic work of the past twenty years, their subtle, visual look at the relationship between the sexes, the ambivalence between culture and nature, history and the present day, as well as the relation between space and time.
Leonard, born in 1961 in Liberty, New York, is one of the most exceptional artists of her generation. Among other venues, her works were shown at the documenta in 1992 and 2007. For more than twenty years her photographs have reflected her wanderings - lost in thought - and her cognitive way of looking at things. Leonard's unconventional views of water or with mirrors, her images of female anatomical wax figures, of fashion shows, of trees and fencing, her hunting trophies from various cities and countries are not intended as pictorial inventions but show the precision and attentive manner in which she finds, captures and memorises her subjects. Seemingly everyday things photographed in black and white or in colour will be shown in a new context. The artist wants to render her lost history visible again, to give it a voice of its own while, at the same time, wresting it from its transient state.
This, the first and only restrospective of Leonard's work in Germany, has been initiated by the Fotomuseum Winterthur and comprises some 90 works. The 600 square metres exhibition space will be re-designed by the artist herself especially for the Pinakothek der Moderne. |
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