Picture Perfect
Hans Peter Feldmann, Joe
Hamilton, Anna Kristensen, Mario Milizia, Taisuke Mohri, Macoto Murayama,
Shuichi Nakano, Wieland Payer, Annalisa Pintucci, Wang Qiang and Lorenzo
Vitturi.
In consideration of the viral development of
photography, which today is involved not just in other areas of art but in all
dimensions of society, "Picture Perfect" presents a selection of
works by artists who have been inspired, influenced or triggered by the
language of photography. None of them are photographers, but they all take
something from the technique, grammar and aesthetics of photography, developing
it in various directions. The exhibition is based on an examination of a single
medium, but the result is a combination of many media, without separations or
discrimination: painting, drawing, video, sculpture, and installation. Picture
Perfect represents both the celebration of a technique, and the
declaration of a failure: the history of photography is marked by its constant
striving for independence, but the exponential growth of its use and
applications has made this objective ever less feasible. After all, the
development of photography is based on the principle of an intersection with
different fields, a sort of contamination. Like that of a virus, one that
"Picture Perfect" isolates, studies and returns into circulation.