Adrian Sauer

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Adrian Sauer (* 1976 in Berlin ) is a contemporary German artist. From 1997 to 2003 he studied photography at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . In 2004 he and his colleagues founded the America producer gallery in Berlin, which existed until 2007 . Today he is represented by the Klemm's Gallery in Berlin. Sauer lives and works in Leipzig. His father is the chemist Joachim Sauer , husband of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel .

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In his photographs Adrian Sauer explores the fundamentals of a medium that has changed more recently than any other. When analog photography was replaced by digital image processes in the course of the 1990s , quite a few critics saw the end of photography. Sauer's photographic work is a decisive counter-speech to such assumptions. However, it is not only understandable here on what basis the latest photographic technologies are based and how completely new forms of display can be achieved with them. In particular, it is the viewer who in Sauer's works are made the subject of artistic discussion. In his earliest pictures, Sauer replaced every single detail of a photograph with manual intervention, so that in the end, strictly speaking, there is no photo left, but rather a hand drawing created on the computer. It takes a knowledgeable eye to discover and critically evaluate the differences that open up here in Sauer's tableaus. Details also play an important role in more recent works. Sauer understands the very large, but nevertheless finite, digital RGB color space as a spectrum of expression that has to be reinterpreted due to its isolation. Whether in a random row or in a strictly calculated order, all 16,777,216 color pixels are always visible exactly once in these images . To take a look at such works means to be able to think with a clear eye about the connection between calculation and beauty.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: About the Languages ​​of Photography - One Possibility , Folkwang University of the Arts , Essen
  • 2016: Generika , Friends of Current Art Zwickau
  • 2014: Form and Color , Klemm's, Berlin
  • 2014: Looking at the Window , Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • 2013: The following: Farben , Hamburg University of Fine Arts
  • 2012: Black squares , Fondation entreprise d'Hermès, TH 13, Bern
  • 2012: A — Z , Klemm's, Berlin
  • 2011: Pictures from calculation (together with Timm Rautert ), Museum for Photography Braunschweig
  • 2010: 16,777,216 colors , Klemm's, Berlin
  • 2007: You have to hurry if you still want to see something , Gut Selikum, Neuss
  • 2006: Photo-Trafic , bac, Geneva
  • 2006: Bastards , America Gallery, Berlin
  • 2005: Fundament , Galerie Amerika, Berlin
  • 2005: Before All Eyes - Young German Photography , Goethe-Institut , Paris
  • 2004: Eastory , Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery, Paris

Adrian Sauer is also regularly involved in group exhibitions, in recent years among others at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , the Galerie Eigen + Art in Leipzig, the Fotomuseum Winterthur , the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden and the DZ Bank art collection in Frankfurt am Main.

Scholarships

Publications

Books by Adrian Sauer

Texts about Adrian Sauer's work

  • Florian Ebner : Verifications and falsifications. Adrian Sauer's fragments on the digital use of photography . In: Adrian Sauer: 16,777,216 colors , volume "Material". Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2009, pp. 19–28.
  • Susanne Holschbach: The uncanny in the media . In: Adrian Sauer: Shell / Atelier . Schaden, Cologne 2008, pp. 33–36.
  • Steffen Siegel : Photographic details: analog / digital . In: ders .: Exposures. To the photographic present . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2014, pp. 23–37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The successful Berlin producer gallery America dissolves" in Der Tagesspiegel from August 17, 2007
  2. ^ "The drama between the pictures" in the daily newspaper of February 8, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Sour, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin