Helena Blomqvist's 'The Last Frog' at Gallery Wagner + Partner |
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| Monday, 24 November 2008 01:24 |
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 Once upon a time… Like a scene from a fairy tale. A boy entwined with red flowers sits like a knight on a Lama. In front of him, as his companion, sits a fully dressed monkey, and together they look towards an adventure. Despite a fantastic and slightly odd impression one can subliminally sense an approaching catastrophe. Each photographic arrangement shows a drama in a particular situation. As if in a perpetual snapshot of life we see departure, sadness, companionship, and time and again darkness. As in her previous series, Helena Blomqvist captures the archetypes of our collective photographic memory. The reference to photographic practice of the 20th century is shown for example in the standardized group picture with soldiers, in the arrangement as well as the coloring. Blomqvist lays down many different visual tracks. In the end however the view again becomes free for the mechanisms of memory through photography. Helena Blomqvist has already exhibited very successfully in Scandinavia; Gallery Wagner + Partner present her first solo exhibition in Germany in the context of the Third European Month of Photography in Berlin. Visit : www.artnet.com/gallery/424272063/wagner--partner.html Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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