Werner Schnelle

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Werner Schnelle
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Werner Schnelle (born 1942 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian photographer .

life and work

Werner Schnelle was born in Vienna in 1942 ; he has lived and worked in Salzburg since 1965 . Working as a freelance photographer since 1987, he primarily works artistically with special photographic techniques such as instant cameras , photo , chemi and luminograms, with 'optical work', camera-free and negatives-free photography and in-camera negatives. Fast work is mainly created in the studio and deals with the process of photography itself in a media-reflexive manner, and "unique photographic items" are often the result of his artistic work.

The central elements in the work of Werner Schnelle, who with her "abstraction occupies a singular position within Austria" , are always the medium photography itself, the properties of light and space and of movement and time and the traces, the objects under the Influence of the photo-immanent processes in the picture. In the medium Werner Schnelle finds questions about the intrinsic qualities and characteristics in photographic and photoid processes. The image-generating light is what is essential, unchangeable, which leaves traces and signs in the room. Anything other than light, which is a constant quantity and weaves space and time back into a whole, depends on the viewer. Even in the earliest publication, the "historicity of looks", as he calls this interplay with the viewer, is the central theme of Werner Schnelle's instant photography: "The viewer of instant images and his predispositions thus come to the fore, Image and viewing are aesthetically linked in a dialectical game. "

Werner Schnell's approach to photography is deliberately analogue, thereby binding it to the origins of the medium and pointing to an appropriation of the world that only exists in analogue photography. Analog photography delivers an "authenticity" - for example through the in-camera negatives not being changeable after the recording process - but also a "lasting tension" through coincidences and experiments that make the chemical processes possible.

Kurt Kaindl locates the interests of Werner Schnelle's photography in the "exploration of the technical, chemical and optical foundations of photography [and in the] fundamental interest in images and their aesthetic and poetic qualities that only find a valid representation in the viewer" .

Margit Zuckriegl, who has curated several exhibitions with Schnelles Arbeit and wrote texts for his publications, says about Werner Schnelle's photography: " Werner Schnelle's photographs always reflect the conceptual approach of his work. [...] Schnell's photographic oeuvre draws is characterized by an experimental character and a specific handwriting. Light, space and time are the constants in an intensive creative process that alternates between trial and calculation. "

80 works from the "Photo Concepts" series by Werner Schnelle are in the collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg .

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018 unique items. Analogue photographs Fotohof , Salzburg
  • 2015 ILIOS - unique paper and film negatives Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2009/10 “WERNER SCHNELLE - FOTOKONZEPTE” exhibition - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg / Salzburg
  • 2009 From the darkroom Galerie Jünger, Baden near Vienna
  • 2008 LIGHT WORKS - Permanent Online Exhibition - www.luminous-lint.com - USA
  • 2007 CONCRETE PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery of the City of Salzburg, Museum Pavilion
  • 2005 WERNER SCHNELLE - PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery Spectrum Linz
  • 2009 Photo Concepts MdM Mönchsberg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
  • 2002 LIGHT WORKS Gallery Faber, Vienna
  • 1997 STILLEBEN Gallery Faber, Vienna
  • 1986 LARGE-FORMAT POLAROID WORKS FOTOHOF, Salzburg
  • 1988 POLAROID WORKS Städtische Galerie, Traun
  • 1986 LARGE-FORMAT POLAROID WORKS Galerie Faber, Vienna
  • 1984 POLAROID WORK Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2019 BLACK AND WHITE Galerie Schloss Wiespach, Hallein
  • 2019 MEISTERWERKE - 25 years Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2019 PICTURES WITHOUT CAMERA. Photogrammatic works from the Spallart collection, Galerie Eboran Salzburg
  • 2019 PHOTO VIENNA: ART STORIES Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2018 NIGHTLINE Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2016 EYES ON: DOUBLE TALKS Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2016 Berg und Tal - Landscapes by contemporary artists NöART - 9 exhibition locations
  • 2014 TRAILER opening exhibition at the younger gallery, Vienna
  • 2014 SPECIAL SELECTION Galerie Jünger / Dependance, Bad Vöslau
  • 2014 EYES ON: EXTENDED VERSIONS Galerie Jünger, Vienna
  • 2013 Structures Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg
  • 2013 THE MAGIC OF THE OBJECT Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2013 UOMINI ILLUSTRI / DONNE SUPERBE - The portrait in contemporary art Austria's Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade
  • 2013 GARTENKUNST / KUNSTGARTEN NöART traveling exhibition, 9 exhibition locations
  • 2013 TRANSFER Galerie Jünger, Bad Vöslau
  • 2013 FINAL CUT Galerie Jünger, Baden / Vienna
  • 2012 DAY AND NIGHT PICTURES Museum der Moderne: Rupertinum, Salzburg
  • 2011 UOMINI ILLUSTRI / DONNE SUPERBE - The portrait in contemporary art, Galerie Jünger, Baden / Vienna
  • 2010 Gartenkunst Galerie Jünger, Baden / Vienna
  • 2008 MÄNNER II Galerie Jünger, Baden / Vienna
  • 2007 LANDSCAPE - 2 COLLECTIONS Kulturfabrik Hainburg
  • 2006 CONCRETE PHOTOGRAPHY Photo Symposium Gmunden
  • 2005 LIGHT WORKS Galerie Jünger, Baden / Vienna
  • 2003 PHOTOGRAPHS Städtische Galerie Rosenheim / BRD
  • 1997 STEICHEN / SCHNELLE - Edward Steichen Photogravures 1900–27, Werner Schnelle - Stillife - photographs 1993–96. Gallery Faber / Vienna

Publications

  • 2018: unique pieces. Analog photo work . edited by Kurt Kaindl . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902993-60-1
  • 2009: photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2
  • 2002: Light Works 1999-2002 . Salzburg: self-published
  • 1986: Large format Polaroid works 1982–1986 Salzburg: self-published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Exhibition FOTOHOF 2018
  2. ^ Text accompanying the exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg
  3. ↑ [catalog uomini illustri / donne superbe. The Portrait in Contemporary Art in Austria , Austrian Cultural Institute Belgrade, 2013]
  4. ↑ cf. Karl Aigner, Machines of Seeing - Machines of Speed. Fragments for the instant photos by WS In: Werner Schnelle: Großformatige Polaroid-Werke 1982–1986 . Salzburg: self-published
  5. ^ Text accompanying the exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg
  6. ↑ Kurt Kaindl, Everything you see is light. On the photography by Werner Schnelle . In: Werner Schnelle: Photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2 . P. 6
  7. ^ Text accompanying the exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg
  8. ^ Exhibition review Salzburger Nachrichten, January 26, 2018
  9. ↑ Gudrun Weinzierl. Taking pictures without a camera . in: Salzburger Nachrichten. December 5, 2009. p. 15
  10. ↑ Margit Zuckriegl, The Traces of Light . In: Werner Schnelle: Light Works 1999–2002 . 2002. Salzburg: self-published
  11. ↑ cf. Gudrun Weinzierl, photo art in Salzburg . In: Parnassus. Art magazine. Issue 4/2014. Vienna: Parnass Verlag Ges.mbH p. 86
  12. ^ Text accompanying the exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg
  13. ↑ Margit Zuckriegl, On the Depth of Pictures . In: Werner Schnelle: Photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2 . P. 150
  14. ↑ Margit Zuckriegl, On the Depth of Pictures . In: Werner Schnelle: Photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2 . P. 150
  15. ↑ cf. Kurt Kaindl, everything you see is light. On the photography by Werner Schnelle . In: Werner Schnelle: Photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2 . P. 7
  16. ^ Karl Aigner, Machines of Seeing - Machines of Speed. Fragments for the instant photos by WS In: Werner Schnelle: Großformatige Polaroid-Werke 1982–1986 . Salzburg: self-published
  17. ↑ Kurt Kaindl, Explorations in the World of Analog Photography . In: Werner Schnelle: Unique items. Analog photo work . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902993-60-1 p. 7
  18. ↑ Werner Schnelle, Notes on Analog Photography . In: Werner Schnelle: Unique items. Analog photo work . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902993-60-1 p. 156
  19. ↑ Kurt Kaindl, Everything you see is light. On the photography by Werner Schnelle . In: Werner Schnelle: Photographs . Salzburg: FOTOHOF edition , ISBN 978-3-902675-26-2 . P. 7
  20. ↑ Margit Zuckriegl. In: NöArt: Mountain and Valley. Landscapes by contemporary artists . St. Pölten: NöArt. ISBN 978-3-9503446-8-4
  21. ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/1256744223785/zwei-ausstellungen-im-salzburger-museum-der-moderne https://www.derstandard.at/story/1256744223785/zwei-ausstellungen-im-salzburger- museum-of-modern
  22. ↑ "Scripture of Light" in: Kronenzeitung. Edition November 7, 2009, p. 43
  23. ^ Luminous Lint, online exhibition Werner Schnelle
  24. ^ Text accompanying the exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg
personal data
SURNAME Fast, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria