courtesy COSAR HMT
Martin Klimas | Foulard
November 4th to December 16th 2011
c/o Haus Maria Theresia Flurstr. 57, 40235 Düsseldorf
Tel.: +49 (0)211 329735, mail@cosarhmt.com, www.cosarhmt.com
© Martin Klimas
courtesy COSAR HMT
MARTIN KLIMAS | FOULARD
High-quality silk scarves from establishments like Dior, YSL, Hermes or Louis Vuitton provide the thematic background for the new photo series ‘Foulard’ by Martin Klimas.
Their nature oddly ambivalent between two- and three-dimensionality, these scarves are themselves subject to an identity crisis situated between object and picture. They are strange hybrids that are perceived as images and serve as objects.
It is in fact the pictorial character of these fashion accessories that specifically interests Martin Klimas in his current works. The silk scarves on display here not only hold a mirror up to the last 50 years of fashion—Klimas deploys scarves from the 1960s up to the present day—in their own way they also stylistically reflect the art of the time. As fashion, they are more Zeitgeist than avant-garde, do not shape style so much as quote artistic trends such as Abstract Expressionism, Op and Pop Art and make us think of artists like Rothko, Vasarely or Lichtenstein.
This reference is what Martin Klimas highlights in his current works, giving yester year ’s motifs back their autonomous character. To the viewer, Klimas’ photos look like large-scale paintings caught between figuration and abstraction.
Expressively luminous color spaces encounter minimalist geometric patterns that completely take over the picture plane; each fall of the folds becomes an orchestrating gesture modulated by the reflection of the light on the metallically shimmering silk. In association with the patterns, complex perspectival constructions result, opening up intriguing pictorial expanses whose visual power is absolutely bewitching. Martin Klimas’ photographic series ‘Foulard’ testifies, on the one hand, to half a century of fashion history, while at the same time, via the most advanced camera technique, lends the scarves a visual presence they never before enjoyed.
courtesy COSAR HMT
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