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Authors: Daniel Blochwitz | Natalia Dobrocka | Pia Draskovits | Nela Eggenberger | Carla Susanne Erdmann | Verena Gamper | Peter Kunitzky | Helena Lang | Christina Natlacen | Margit Neuhold | ORLAN | Nicolas Oxen | Dani\u00e8le Perrier | Veronika Rudorfer | Tina Schelle | Gudrun Sommer | Raimar Stange | Julia Stellmann[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”172462″]Languages<\/strong> | Deutsch \/ Englisch
\nSize<\/strong> | 280 x 210 mm
\nISBN<\/strong> | 978-3-904083-17-1
\n96 Pages
\nPrizes:<\/strong> \u20ac 18,00 (inkl. 10% USt)[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_gallery el_id=”gallery-203623″ type=”carousel” medias=”177106,177107,177108″ gallery_back_color=”color-xsdn” carousel_lg=”3″ carousel_md=”3″ carousel_sm=”1″ gutter_size=”3″ media_items=”media|lightbox|original,caption” carousel_interval=”3000″ carousel_navspeed=”400″ carousel_loop=”yes” stage_padding=”0″ single_text=”under” single_overlay_opacity=”1″ single_overlay_visible=”yes” single_overlay_anim=”no” single_text_visible=”yes” single_text_anim=”no” single_image_anim=”no” single_v_position=”bottom” single_padding=”0″ single_text_reduced=”yes” single_meta_custom_typo=”yes” single_meta_weight=”300″ single_border=”yes” lbox_caption=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”718716″ gallery_back_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”195544″]CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

PORTFOLIO
\n<\/u>Ji\u0159\u00ed Th\u00fdn <\/span>| Natalia Dobrocka
\nAndrea van der Straeten <\/span>| Verena Gamper
\nKapwani Kiwanga <\/span>| Dani\u00e8le Perrier<\/span>
\nLaia Abril <\/span>| Pia Draskovits
\nBastian Schwind | Nicolas Oxen<\/span><\/p>\n

PROJECTS
\n<\/u>A Decade of the Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse | Tina Schelle<\/p>\n

A WORK IN PROFILE<\/u>
\n\u00c9tude Documentaire: Le Drap\u00e9 \u2013 Le Baroque, Ska\u00ef and Sky and Video| ORLAN<\/p>\n

ARTS AND STUDIES
\n<\/u>Anna Vasof <\/span>| Gudrun Sommer<\/span><\/p>\n

FOCUS
\n<\/u>A Conversation with Renate Bertlmann and J\u00fcrgen Klauke | Nela Eggenberger<\/p>\n

FORUM
\n<\/u>An Interview with Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector of the Angewandte | Carl Aigner, Nela Eggenberger<\/p>\n

EXHIBITIONS<\/u>
\nFlashes of Memory. Photography in the Holocaust | Veronika Rudorfer
\nCindy Sherman. Anti-Fashion | Carla Susanne Erdmann
\nWerner Bischof. Unseen Colour & Rosellina. Living for Photography | Daniel Blochwitz
\nIsaac Julien. What Freedom Is To Me | Julia Stellmann
\nFocus! Click! Maria Austria. Photographer in Exile | Christina Natlacen
\nCandice Breitz. Whiteface | Raimar Stange<\/p>\n

TERMINE
\n<\/u>with Lars Willumeit<\/p>\n

COLLECTOR’S EDITION
\n<\/u>Oliver Frank Chanarin. A Perfect Sentence<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS \/ REVIEW<\/u>
\nJ\u00fcrgen Beck. Sun Breakers | Margit Neuhold
\nHans-Michael Koetzle. Reden wir \u00fcber Fotografie | Peter Kunitzky[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”712130″]<\/p>\n

EDITORIAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Readers!
\nAt least in Western democracies, it seems that fluid identities are now socially accepted to the extent that even fashion chains can commercially exploit concepts such as Pride Month; the awareness of the constructed nature of social gender has thus finally arrived in the mainstream. This was, of course, preceded by a long process in which, in addition to an active subculture, artists were also involved through their targeted questioning of role stereotypes. Photography, as a mirror of\u2014a now increasingly dubious\u2014reality, has always played a key role in this process.
\nWith \u201cQuestioning Queerness,\u201d the motto of this issue in response to the strong presence of the LGBTQIA+ community, the focus is placed on the questioning of gender constructions, using the example of the oeuvres of two jubilarians who negotiated this topic long before today\u2019s debates: Some fifty years ago, Renate Bertlmann and J\u00fcrgen Klauke, both born in 1943, were already deeply engaged with the theme of sexual identity. Although the currently discussed terms were far from being defined at the time, the early works of both artists already visualized many of the ideas that drive society today. J\u00fcrgen Klauke, for example, was interested in \u201cbreaking up entrenched gender identities in order to expose a binary logic of sexuality as inadequate and thus to unsettle normative ideal images of gender\u2014whether in relation to masculinity or femininity\u2014by means of an anagrammatization of the body\u201d (Elisabeth Bronfen). In the work of Renate Bertlmann these same ambivalences are perhaps most clearly seen in the act of inversion, as practiced with her latex works: This demonstrates \u201cthat form and content are identical or, rather, that the distinction between them simply does not exist. […] Pacifier and condom, penis and vagina are just fluctuating picture-puzzle formations of a single, flexible material, a soft skin\u201d (Katharina Sykora).
\nWith the works of Bertlmann and Klauke, one can also experience, in addition to so much else that must remain unmentioned here, how entrenched cliches can probably best be dispelled,namely with a certain lightness and a sense of humor.
\nNela Eggenberger | EIKON | November 2023<\/p>\n

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EIKON #124
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