Götz Diergarten

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Götz Diergarten (born December 23, 1972 in Mannheim ) is a German photographer . An essential characteristic of his picture series is a conceptual connection between typology and color.

Live and act

Life

Götz Diergarten studied fine art and photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd Becher from 1993 to 1998 ; he completed his studies with an academy certificate (diploma). Until 2000 he continued his studies at the University of Design and Art in Zurich. He has received a number of prizes (for example, the 1st Prize for Young Art from the Ulm Artists' Guild in 1999, the Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts in 2010 ) as well as grants, including the England grant from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 2002, the Hasselblad grant in 2003 and one in 2005 Stay at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral . Architectural motifs form the focus of his photographic activity. His work is regularly presented at art fairs such as Art Basel , Art Cologne or the new Armory Show in New York.

Diergarten is on the “ 100 heads of tomorrow ” list, which introduces selected young people who are predicted to have a promising future because of their “creativity and motivation”. He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Photo art

Diergarten's photo motifs are, for example, houses, huts, facades, doors or food stalls, which he shows in typological sequences of images. Standardized little beach huts and baskets, which he took outside of the bathing season, appear abstract and at the same time invite the photographer to interpret human traces through the subjective way of seeing things; the images make the viewer curious about the story that is hidden behind the objects captured. They are a “sober document, straightforward, economical in its timeless light […] Diergarten detects subtle details, delimits the space with a disarming simplicity” . In his objective focus on everyday culture, Diergarten is close to photographers such as Albert Renger-Patzsch or Walker Evans , while his color scheme is closer to American photographers such as Stephen Shore . There are close references to painting in his pictures.

One of his early work cycles was called Typography and Facades (1995). The doors are closed, there are no people in the pictures. In the exhibition "House Trip" at the Art Forum Berlin in 2007 he attached the photograph of a front door from the Palatinate next to the entrance door of an artificial house built in the hall and in this way drew a "disturbing boundary between private and public life" for the viewer. . Daniele Muscionico writes: "Diergarten has broken out of the canon in order to try more in his own visual language: the visual alphabetization of the viewer, the sensitization for his surroundings, his living space - and for his communication." Diegarten's motifs in the series England (2006 ) are shelters, benches and bathing structures along the coast, whereby an original group assignment and coloring create a remarkably characteristic seaside resort atmosphere.

Quote

  • “In all my work, the special in the banal is in the foreground. I am interested in the images created by people "unconsciously-consciously", which can be found in the form of banal house facades or banal beach structures. "

Works

Solo exhibitions

  • 2013: Forum Alte Post , Pirmasens | Passages
  • 2013: Museum DKM , Duisburg | The special in the banal
  • 2010: Weserburg, Bremen
  • 2007: Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
  • 2006: Galerie Kicken, Berlin
  • 2005: Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 2005: Artothèque Caen, France
  • 2004: DoArt, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2001: Galerie Holm & Wirth, Zurich
  • 2001: Center Photographique de Normandie (CPN) / Pôle Image, Rouen

Group exhibitions

Working in public collections

Diergarten's work can be found in the Bonn Museum of Contemporary History , other locations include: WestLB (London), State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Center Photographique de Normandie (Rouen) and Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern .

literature

Books and catalogs

Secondary literature

  • Maurice Lecoeur: Foreword . In: Ravenonville. 67 photo images . Freiburg i.Br. 2001. ISBN 3-00-008036-8
  • Daniele Muscionico: The wealth of restraint . In: Ravenonville. 67 photo images . Freiburg i.Br. 2001
  • René G. Siemer: The subtle difference and questions for Götz Diergarten . In: Art 21 [2]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Diergarten's biography in artfacts.net
  2. ↑ Series: Beach Cabins (2003)
  3. ^ Maurice Lecoeur: Foreword . In: Ravenoville . Freiburg i.Br. 2001
  4. ↑ Christoph surcharge in: Strandcabines, Knokke - Koksijde . Liege 2005
  5. ↑ Swantje Karich: Welcome home . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 28, 2007
  6. ↑ Daniele Muscionico in: Ravenoville . Freiburg i.Br. 2001
  7. ↑ In an interview with René G. Siemer. In: Art 21 [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kunst21.ch  
  8. ↑ http://www.kunstportal-pfalz.de/29/eid,15643/-quot%3Bgoetz-diergarten-passagen-fotobilder-1993-2013-quo.html , accessed on August 8, 2017
  9. ↑ FAZ of August 30, 2010, page 23: And another beach house
personal data
SURNAME Diergarten, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim