Inge Dick

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Inge Dick in conversation with Tomás Rodriguez Soto on June 8, 2015 in her exhibition at Photo Edition Berlin 2015

Inge Dick (born January 15, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian photographer and painter .

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After attending the Vienna Fashion School in Schloss Hetzendorf, she studied commercial graphics at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1962 .

During this time she came across works by Karl Prantl , the ZERO artists and the light-flooded watercolors by Antonio Calderara . From 1971 she created conceptual painting as a freelance artist in the tradition of classical modernism .

Already in her youth she began to study the philosophy of Zen Buddhism , where she also got to know ink drawings, especially those of the Japanese painter Sengai .

While strong colors emerged in a geometric design language in the mid-1960s, the path to monochrome crystallized in the following years. She recognized photography as a suitable medium for optimal reproduction, which she appropriated from Eva Choung-Fux .

In the 1980s, she turned the Polaroid - Photography with the aim of, the issues of time and light are visible. The intensive examination of the technology of the Polaroids led to work with ever larger Polaroid cameras, ultimately also with the world's largest (100 × 200 cm) in Boston . By depicting monochrome surfaces at certain time intervals, she showed the changes in light over the course of the day.

Her first film project, made in 2007, titled zinnober, shows in real time the changes in a vermilion surface over a period of 13.5 hours under the influence of daylight during an August day . The film, recorded as HD video with normal optics in an aspect ratio of 16: 9 with a fixed aperture and a resolution of 1440x1080 / 50, was saved directly to the hard drive . The film was the occasion for the Swiss composer Roland Dahinden to compose the piece of music zinnober . As with the film project cinnabar were subsequently also from the project blue, infinitely removed (2010) single shots and presented as photo and pixels work.

The artist received occasional commissions in the context of art in architecture and designed and realized, especially in Upper Austria and Salzburg a. a. Rooms in old people's homes as well as sacred rooms (meditation rooms, chapels, mortuary). Her works are shown in numerous Austrian and international museums and public collections.

Her works are in the collections of Austrian and international museums.

Inge Dick has lived and worked in Innerschwand am Mondsee in Upper Austria since 1984 . In 2010/2011 she took part in the restoration and redesign of the Innerschwand branch church on Mondsee , where she also created the glass windows.

Exhibitions

Works by her have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including a.

• Inge Dick, painting and photography , Museum of Modern Art in Palais Liechtenstein , Vienna (1984)
• Inge Dick, work in progress , Rupertinum , Salzburg (1988)
• Lichtzeiten , Landesgalerie at the Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz (1994, 2001, 2008)
• Social facades , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich (2003)
• Polaroid as a gesture , Museum of Photography , Braunschweig (2005)
• Photography KONKRET, KONKRETE Fotografie, Museum im Kulturspeicher , Würzburg (2005)

Publications

• Inge Dick: Painting and Photography 1971 - 1984 ; on the occasion of the exhibition Works in Space , in the Museum of Modern Art, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Munich, 1984, ISBN 3-923581-02-5
• Inge Dick: Inge Dick - Osamu Nakajima , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz, 1994, translation into English: Peter Waugh , ISBN 3-900746-65-6
• Inge Dick: Inge Dick, large Polaroids, catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the galleries Fotohof and Renate Bender, Salzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-901756-05-1
• Friederike Mayröcker , Inge Dick, Carl Aigner (eds.): Inge Dick: Light, Space, Time - Painting and Polaroids, catalog for exhibitions in the Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt (1998), gallery in the Ingolstadt theater (1998), Kunsthalle Krems (1999), Heidelberg , 1998, ISBN 3-8295-0000-9
• Inge Dick, Martin Hochleitner (Hrsg.): Catalog for the exhibition From the collection: Light - examples of works by Inge Dick in the state gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz, Weitra, 2001, ISBN 3-85252-234-X
• Inge Dick (Ed.): Mondsee Land Art , 6 public spaces designed by contemporary artists, Weitra, 2006, ISBN 3-85252-760-0
• Peter Assmann , Bodo Hell , Friederike Mayröcker , Inge Dick: Inge Dick - am Wasser , catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunstraum Galerie Schloss Mondsee, 2006, Mondsee, 2006, ISBN 978-3-9502162-0-2
• Ruth Horak , Melissa Lumbroso , Inge Dick: Exhibition Work Show XIV: Inge Dick - Works 1989 to 2007 , Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978-3-902725-27-1

Awards

The artist received a number of awards (selection):

• Woyty-Wimmer Prize (1976)
• Theodor Körner Prize (1979)
• Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna (1981)
• Alfred Scharf Fund Award (1984)
• Upper Austrian State Culture Prize for Artistic Photography (1993)
• 2nd International Evard Prize (2010)
• Alfred Kubin Prize = Great Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria (2011)

Web links

• Entry about Inge, Dick in the Austria-Forum , author / editor: I. Schinnerl (biography)
• Literature by and about Inge Dick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Inge Dick , in: Web presence of the art collection of the province of Upper Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two by one meter - an oversized light model , Inge Dick: Works from the MUWA in a new light - light times in the Linzer Landesgalerie, in: Web presence of the Museum of Perception, Graz ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ In Zinnober the day is still whole, in: Fischer Film's website ( memento of the original from November 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Comprehensive Carl Aigner : Biography Inge Dick , in: Festschrift for the Alfred Kubin Prize 2011, website of the Innerschwand municipal office (PDF; 711 kB)
4. ↑ Biography Inge Dick, in: Festschrift on the award of the Alfred Kubin Prize 2011 (PDF; 711 kB)
5. ^ Painter Inge Dick receives culture award, in: ORF Upper Austria from July 12, 2011