© Peter Granser, Megachurch Tryptich, from the project "Signs", 2007

 

Hängung #9: WETTERDÄMMERUNG - Selections from the Collection of Alison and Peter W. Klein

Brigitte Wetter the curator of the Klein collection presents a personal look back in her farewell show. She has selected from the now 1660 exhibits in the collection. Hängung #9 features works from the beginnings through to the latest acquisitions. Behind each work that has made its way into the collection lie personal encounters of the curator with artists and gallery owners, studio and art fair visits and constant communication with Alison and Peter W. Klein.

In short, the look back brings together drawings, paintings and photographs that have been and are favourites of the curator. Reflected in these are both the cross-section and the development of the Klein collection.

Hängung #9 features works by artists including Karl Bohrmann, Elger Esser, Katharina Hinsberg, Susanne Kühn, Thomas Müller, Eva Wagner, Corinne Wasmuht, Peter Granser and others. 

A farewell exhibition brochure is being produced.

17 02 2013 - 09 06 2013

http://www.sammlung-klein.de

 

Exhibition 

 

Andreas Langen wrote in the german newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung about this work:

Photographs of war are much sought-after because they attract attention – drama, death and horror are reliable eye-catchers. A counter-strategy is pursued in the latest book by Stuttgart-based photographer Peter Granser: “What We Once Called Home” (Verlag Bücher & Hefte, €28). It shows us a town that has been literally pulverized by armies, tanks, artillery and shells: Gruorn on the Swabian Alb. Its inhabitants were forced to abandon their homes when their village was incorporated into the Münsigen military training area in 1937–39.
What Peter Granser found here was therefore mostly a complete void. He makes what is absent into an important part of his visual language in photographs that bear a haunting resemblance to the earliest war photographs of all: Roger Fenton’s deserted landscapes captured during the Crimean War in 1855. Echoes of the American New Topographics movement in the 1960s are also apparent, when for example Granser composes black-and-white views of the barren hills of the Swabian Alb. He juxtaposes these images with sober studio shots of the ammunition used in Münsigen – a plethora of elegant-looking, deadly missiles before pristine white backgrounds. This chilling series is lent an emotional charge by the heart-rending, but futile, letter the Mayor of Gruorn wrote in 1937 lamenting the imminent extinction of his town. Peter Granser conjures from these elements a meditative study of transience and violence – a silent memorial in pictures.

Opening at 7pm on 22 02 2013

23 02 2013 - 14 04 2013

http://www.reutlingen.de/3346?view=publish&item=article&id=4026