UNTIL SUNDAY 14/4
GENS PUMPS. Burjassot, 54
In collaboration with Essen's folkwang museum, Gens bombs presents a retrospective that covers five decades of production by German photographer Timm Raurt. It started as a photojournalist, believing that he could change the world if he focused on injustices, about the moral and social problems of the world, But initial idealism ended up fading. As stated in the presentation of the sample, Today does not believe that photos improve the world, But they can modify our perception of it and invite us to reflection. Timm Rauter and the lives of photography exposes 350 Photographs in which the artist's thematic and methodological versatility is appreciated, According to the co-compromise of the sample, Thomas Seelig, "One of the great innovators of the photograph of his generation". They are fifty years of career in which this subjective photograph has worked - thermal coined by his mentor Otto Steinert - that claims greater creative freedom, also abstraction, Fashion, Architecture, he collage and the media (The arrival of man to the moon) giving it importance, Not only to what I narrated, but to the methodology applied to your work. Hence, as long as, I of different approaches to the same negatives, that stir them in the dark chamber to get a very different image from the original.
In the seventies he met the director of the magazine Time magazine for which he made several reports based on photographs that later reinterpreted artistically outside the publication. This time is his works on the decline of mining in the heavy industry, Daily life in a Amish community and the Crazy Horse dancers, a series that, According to Raurt, In this era post #metoo it could not be published. He Crazy horse It is the mythical Parisian cabaret (still active) that became famous for the performances of practically naked dancers of perfect bodies. Rautert visited her to take a picture of her creator, Alain Bernardin, And while waiting for him, he got him to let the dancers photograph in his rest time, eating, smoking, Make up… Gens bombs also show Germans in uniform (Germans in uniform), A series that portrays uniformed professionals - a car park, A hostess, A mailman, A Fire Chief, etc. - As firm representatives of your trades more than themselves. The same photographs, black and white, They are exposed for the first time to give a warm counterpoint to the above. Another of the series collects portraits of friends and great personalities like Andy Warhol. RauterT was betting in front of an elevator who sensed that Warhol would end up and shot at the precise moment to get a spectacular photo in which he himself appears portrayed by the mirror game. It is not the only self -portrait, Raurt says to use them to self -state despite him, The photographer, the artist, It is not important, The spectator is. "Everything I think," he said, "comes from photography". S.M.
