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Alfons Schilling
The Falling Man, 1969
Lenticular photograph, 4 views
© Estate of Alfons Schilling |
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BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY |
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| 14 February – 14 May, 2017 |
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| Opening: Monday, 13 February, 7pm |
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WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie Westbahnstraße 40, 1070 Vienna
Austria
T +43 (0)1-5226636
info@westlicht.com
www.westlicht.com
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Kleiner Vogel (small bird),
Alfons Schilling on the rooftop of 491 Broadway, New York, 1978,
photo by Janice Everett / Estate of Alfons Schilling |
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| Moving and setting in motion — the rebellious experimental spirit that drove Alfons Schilling (1934-2013) from the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, where with Günter Brus he had paved the way for Actionism, to Paris and New York in 1962, was also evident during the artist’s long career in his photographic works. They push the medium well beyond its traditional boundaries and provide the missing link between Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century movement studies and current notions of cyberspace. |
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Alfons Schilling
Self-portrait, c. 1968
© Estate of Alfons Schilling |
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| Schilling’s investigation of lenticular photography added a dynamic dimension to seeing and merged several images into a single picture. Holograms and stereophotography turn pictures into a virtual space. Those who travel the three-dimensional world today with head-mounted displays are merely following a path that Schilling embarked on in the 1970s. The exhibition focuses for the first time on the visionary’s expanded photography, presenting it alongside selected vision machines, paintings and film experiments. The central thrust of his pioneering work is a critique of perception and the liberation of the act of seeing itself: "It’s not what’s on the picture — it’s what is behind it." |
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Alfons Schilling
Chicago Riot, Burning Car, 1970
Lenticular photograph
Courtesy OstLicht Collection
© Estate of Alfons Schilling |
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| The exhibition is jointly organised with the Estate of Alfons Schilling. |
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Alfons Schilling
Film still from 9XL – Es war einmal (once upon a time), 1965
35mm, b&w, sound, 13 Min.
© Estate of Alfons Schilling |
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 | The exhibition is accompanied by a book published by Verlag für moderne Kunst, with a preface by Peter Weibel and essays by Roland Fischer-Briand, Erkki Huhtamo, Romana Karla Schuler, Andreas Spiegl, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and curators Rebekka Reuter and Fabian Knierim.
"Alfons Schilling. Beyond Photography".
Price: 48 Euro |
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