Sandra Hastenteufel

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Sandra Hastenteufel (* 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a German visual artist.

She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In 2005 she was a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo , Rome. For the winter semester 2006 she took over the management of the chair for fine arts on the Roman campus of the American Cornell University and made it interdisciplinary. Sandra Hastenteufel's work is represented in important collections and museums such as the DaimlerChrysler Collection and the Stuttgart State Gallery . Her commissions include photographic portraits of artists such as Vladimir Malakow or Daniel Barenboim and oil portraits of the Thai royal couple.

Sandra Hastenteufel works with a wide range of media. She works with photography, film, painting and sculpture and develops interdisciplinary projects in the fields of music, opera and ballet. When crossing the borders of the art genres, Hastenteufel exposes deeper layers and finds points of contact.

She renounces the aesthetic of the momentary that is normally inherent in photography or film. Rather, time seems to be accumulated and saved in her work. From this a painterly quality crystallizes in her photographs and videos. Her portraits point to an inner, normally unnoticed quality in people.

Her project Through a Mirror in a Dark Word , for Monteverdi's opera Coronation of Poppea, aims at such a depth . During rehearsals, Hastenteufel had a feel for the moment of “verità”, the “true” emotional feeling in gestures and facial expressions, when singers immersed themselves in early baroque music before all intellectual debate. Across all art genres, she recognized the gestures of comparable figures of the painter Caravaggio , a contemporary of Monteverdi. Like these two old masters, Hastenteufel renounces everything that is superfluous and that distracts from the “truth”.

In her landscapes of infinity she uses the same means to deal with the space-time axis (cibachrome photographs and paintings as well as a project involving other artists on a golf course with sculptures as anchor points for the overall complex as a work of art per se).

Her plant portraits are miniature cibachromes of seedlings that were photographed on the spot in the forest and are shown in original size. As in the portraits of people, there is an existential process from the inside to the outside, the material can be transferred to the immaterial.

In Rome the artist is working on a film project about Caravaggio's mysterious light.