Erratic Photography - Flowers and new works
13 February - 10 April 2010
Opening: Friday, 12 February from 7pm
Book signing with the artist
Introduction by:
Gunther Dietrich, Gallery owner and publisher PHOTO EDITION BERLIN
Dr. Bernd Fechner, photomarketing.de and board member of Section Art,
Market and Law of the German Society of Photography (DGPh)
gallery for contemporary photography
Ystaderstr.14a, D - 10437 Berlin
+49 (0)30 41717831
www.photo-edition-berlin.com
Opening hours: Wed-Sat 2- 6 pm
and by appointment
© Eliska Bartek from the series 'Erratic Photography
- Paris' 2008
© Eliska Bartek from the series 'Erratic Photography
- Paris' 2008
Eliska Bartek is probably one of the most diverse contemporary artists. Not only does she experiment with different media such as painting, photography and video, she explores each medium in depth. In her first solo exhibition at Photo Edition Berlin new photographic works will be on show. "Flowers" are prominent in the works of Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, or Thomas Florschuetz and often stand for the limits of visible perception, notions of beauty and the ephemeral. Eliska Bartek continues and expands this tradition, producing breathtaking images with her own signature of light, form and colour.
ERRATIC PHOTOGRAPHY
The artist has come to be increasingly interested in the subconscious and the mystic, the sense that there is another reality behind pictures, that remains unshown. It is this unshown reality that Eliska Bartek focuses on in her recent work, as in this 2008 series of black and white photographs. Created on a journey to Abu Dhabi, the series reveals both a hightened sensitivity for the void and a profound curiosity for orientation in an unknown culture. By working with time exposure and camera in motion, the artist succeeds to capture the fluid image of a megacity at the moments of departure and arrival on its airport. She presents us with a sense of tension which builds up in transitional moments of arrival and departure, and which seems to correlate with the discrepancy between image and non-image, longing and disappointment, familiarity and estrangement, expectation and passiveness.
The exhibition also includes Photo- and Chemigrams from new series.
© Eliska Bartek from the series 'Shifting Mountains:
Niesen with Thunersee' C-Print, 80x90cm, Edition of 8, 2008
© Eliska Bartek from the series
'Und abends blüht die Moldau' 2003/04
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| On the occasion of the solo exhibition at ROSPHOTO, the State Russian Center for Photography in St. Petersburg, Russia, appeared a 120pp book, "Silence", with essays by Christoph Tannert, Magda Durda, Christina Wendenburg and Gunther Dietrich. |
On the occasion of the solo exhibition at ROSPHOTO, the State Russian Center for Photography in St. Petersburg, Russia, appeared a 120pp book, "Silence", with essays by Christoph Tannert, Magda Durda, Christina Wendenburg and Gunther Dietrich.
The book assembles photographic works from 2004 - 2009.
ISBN 978-3-00-028291-1
Book order for the price of 20 Euro in the gallery or via Amazon
special edition +
C-Print 13 x 18 cm from the Series "Und Abends blüht die Moldau" 2004
or from the Series: "O.T. - Abu Dhabi" 2008
Open Edition
Book plus Print: 300 Euro
with two Prints: 500 Euro
Artist Website: www.eliska-bartek.de
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