Beate Gütschow: S

Beate Gütschow: S

Ulrich Bischoff, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Beate Gutschow • Hatje Cantz

ISBN-10: 3775725288 · ISBN-13: 978‑3775725286 · 2009

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At first glance, the large-format black-and-white photographs by Beate Gütschow (*1970 in Mainz ) are reminiscent of authentic documentations of urban scenes: monumental architecture, decaying buildings, rusty automobile parts. Yet the images are the result of complex digital manipulation: they are montages consisting of numerous photos taken by Gütschow on her various journeys and later assembled to create a single picture. They are often fragments of aging modern architecture—plain, unadorned concrete buildings, now crumbling and in part non-functional. In this way, the artist thematizes ideas that have survived modernity while she also explores and scrutinizes the medium of photography as a representative of reality.

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