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WOLFGANG VOLZ
Christo und Jeanne Claude
Le Pont Neuf veiled,
Paris
1975-85, 1985
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Photograph Wolfgang Volz is also called "the eye of Christo and
Jeanne-Claude" (to quote Werner Spies). His large-format photographs reveal
to the viewers how humankind treats the landscape - the vulnerable skin of
our planet – in a manner that is as much fascinating as it is upsetting.
While the primeval stone circles in Scotland, or the ancient cultivated
terraces and regulated rivers in China blend organically into the natural
landscape, the industrial landscapes of America and Europe demonstrate how
mankind has also been able to subjugate, exploit and deplete it.
The photographs of Wolfgang Volz - in this exhibition - enter into an
intriguing dialogue with his photographs taken of the legendary LandArt
interventions into the topographical spaces of America, Europe and Asia by
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Volz's photographs have congenially captured the
monumental artistic events the artists created for a specific moment in
history, rendering visible for a prolonged time the utopian spirit of
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works: by wrapping, covering, tying up and
concealing they draw our attention to the riches of both nature and culture.
With a ruthlessly globalising human world in the background, Wolfgang Volz's
landscape photographs express the feast of human creativity, as well as an
evocation in an attempt to ultimately attain a peaceful equilibrium between
humans, technology and nature.
The exhibition, which shows 70 large-format colour photographs (250 x 180
cm) and 80 black and white photographs (50 x 40 cm), is a must for everybody
who loves grandiose landscapes and feels fascination for the artists Christo
and Jeanne-Claude. Their next project "The Gates" will take place in
February in Central Park , New York . The exhibition goes after Koblenz to the
Chelsea Art Museum, New York.
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WOLFGANG VOLZ
Christo und Jeanne-Claude
The "Reichstag" veiled,
Berlin
1971-95, 1995
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