CANDIDA HÖFER – CLOSER
2014-12-29The exhibition presents a series of photographs of various interiors, two of which were made in Düsseldorf. These are “Schmela Haus Düsseldorf | 2011”, the Nordrhein-Westfalen art collection, and the “New Stahlhof Düsseldorf | 2012”, renovated in 2002. Here she has focused on a stairwell, showing its impressive architecture. A symphony in white, created simply by the receding line of the banister.
In contrast to her earlier works, most of which were meant to show inherent relations of images, the new works more often concentrate on single objects, often in isolation and carefully staged. They explore the ontology of objects, colors, and light. For example, a neon tube in the dark interior of a stairwell becomes a form-giving entity, and dictates the minimal composition on the picture surface. In another work a thin white line runs across a concrete floor, and the photographic composition is thereby fragmented into two abstract sections. These new works often have English titles, but as in those of her earlier photographs they indicate nothing more but what there is to see. For example, the work just mentioned is simply titled “Line on the Floor 2014”.
Opposite – Blinds 2014, 2014
Exhibition runs through till January 25th, 2015
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Löwenbräu-Areal, Limmatstr. 270
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland
