January 10th, 2008
These interview scenes are unused scenes from the documentary about Jock Sturges (not included in the DVD)
Interview with Jock Sturges (Quicktime-Video)
Deutsche Version
Official Filmwebsite (Trailer, Gallery, DVD, 99 minutes)
Jock Sturges and beauty
In the summer of 2007, we travelled to the French Atlantic Coast to meet an artist whose images stand out from the diverse pool of contemporary photography. His subject matter is the human being. His tool is a large format camera. His goal is the depiction of nothing less than beauty.
He demands the truth from his photographs. For over 30 years, the American photographer Jock Sturges has dealt with beauty and truth, an idea of art, unfortunately, which is often scorned today. In order to recognize and appreciate that, which distinguishes his work, we must focus on the definition of beauty.
Jock Sturges. Nikki. Montalivet. France. 1996.
Beauty is first and foremost an abstract definition, a concept, difficult to determine. It has always been governed by history and culture. However, there is a certain degree of global consensus concerning to the notion of beauty. Not only do we define physical matter, such as humans, animals, plants or objects as beautiful, but also abstractions, such as ideas or the notion of the soul. Even Schiller in his essay Read the rest of this entry »
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October 24th, 2007
Friedrich Nietzsches typewriter. Malling Hansen.
This song is done,–the sweet sad cry of rue
Sang out its end;
A wizard wrought it, he the timely friend,
The midday-friend,–no, do not ask me who;
At midday ’twas, when one became as two.
Friedrich Nietzsche. From the heights.
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September 21st, 2007
Interview with Hellen van Meene (Quicktime-Video)
Deutsche Version (Interview Sender in deutscher Sprache)
Hellen van Meene, a global photographer.
Not everyone finds access to poetry. Sensual beauty appears useless to some of us. In times of controllers man is reduced to his function.
As man is a creature that reaches beyond his plain function in the society, he has – among other things – created art. Art is one of the highest achievements of mankind and describes ever again the core which represents humanity.
Photo by Hellen van Meene.
In the images of the dutch photographer Hellen van Meene fragility, beauty Read the rest of this entry »
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May 8th, 2007
Interview with Thomas Olbricht (Quicktime-Video)
Interview in Deutsch (Quicktime-Video)
The passion of the art collector
Collecting is a passion and -or- the compensation of a lack, like Sigmund Freud says. Which lack it is will be a sheltered secret of every collector. Except the coldish, calculated collector who always takes a side look to the art market and the upgrading of the possessed art work. There are collectors who really collect art as a pleasure of collecting and who are neutral to whether an art work is a financial investment. Their purchases are intuitive and some of the collectors make the collecting of art their purpose in life. But there are some more causes to buy art. According to Christina Karasek´s book: “Make artists? Aspects of the art-market.” there are six reasons:
1. financial interest
2. decorative needs
3. show a group membership
4. aesthetic experience
5. experience different views of life
6. art sponsorship
John Issacs. Thinking about it. 2002. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 30th, 2007
Concert with Markus Zugehör (Quicktime-Video)
Interview und Konzert in Deutsch (Quicktime-Video)
The Aim of Art
And of course a man may enjoy himself in now producing over again by his own work, skill, and assiduity what otherwise is there already. But this enjoyment and admiration become in themselves the more frigid and cold, Read the rest of this entry »
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