6. digital new art award
„plug out“
01.06.-06.08.2004
I. Prize (€ 3.000,--)
Melanie Wiora
"Abgrund", 2002 from the Series "Eyescapes"
Lambda Print
63 x 76,5 cm
Edition: 5 + 2 AP
Price: € 1.290,--
In my work ”Eyescapes”, I photographed landscapes which were mirrored to my eye. Due to the reflection on the lens, the pictures which were created are distorted and altered in their impression of space. The lids and eyelashes, projected in from the upper edge of the picture, also reflections, open up the space of the image. The colours of the irises and the pupils partly overlap that which was visible. These fragments of the body create references to individual landscape segments and allow the pictures to become insights into an altered world.Melanie Wiora
jury comment
Melanie Wiora leads us, as the observers of her work ”Abgrund” (abyss), from the series ”Eyescapes”, into a world which not only enables a pause but stops the world itself. She steers our glance to landscapes which open us up the way to meditation or a thoughtful stay and thus give our fantasy reign. We observe the picture as though we are looking through the eyes of a ”repoussoir” figure. Thus, at the beginning, is perception by the eye - a process which we repeat daily, consciously or unconsciously, infinitely often. The artist shows us what we see as an image without the often confusing perception of the observer. We observe thereby the world through the eyes of the artist. She photographs the mirroring at the moment of observance.
II. Prize (€ 1.200,--)
Friederike Hinz
"Feldforschung Nr. 12", 2003
from the Series "Feldforschung"
Oil on Canvas
50 x 70 cm
Unique Copy
Price: € 2.000,--
”Feldforschung Nr. 12” is a picture from a series on which I am working continuously. The topic is the con-frontation between near and far presented by distant landscapes all of which are equipped with a fixed point: a rabbit which merges into the landscape in the distance almost invisibly and thus becomes part of it. ”Feldforschung” emerges on the basis of digital photos which I process on the computer. I use these digital sketches as the model for my oil painting. Friederike Hinz
jury comment
Access from the perspective of the artists throws open the following questions: which way do I go myself to take a timeout for myself? How do I find access perhaps in this manner, to my work, to my artistic production? Friederike Hinz uses this angle of the artist ”spiced with humour” and presents the result of her hare stalk with the digital camera by means of ”Feldforschung Nr. 12” (field research). Leisure leads her into the ”plug out” and to her motive, the hare in the field which she processes on the computer and transmits to the screen. A type of ”picture puzzle” evolves which arouses us as observers to attentive and patient viewing – similarly to the search for the motive in the first design phase of the artist.
III. Prize (€ 700,--)
Christiane Stegat & Mark Jahelka
"anthurie", 2002
Exposure on Duratrans film, on Acryl Glass
40 x 50 cm
Edition: 10
Price: € 560,--
„…what we imagine to be vegetative, it is marked just by the fact that it is not made of meat and blood.A digitally calculated difference takes the place of the bodily unit; that which is imagined as being different shows itself to be identical ….” Mark Jahelka
jury comment
Artists like Christiane Stegat and Mark Jahelka give the image of a room, an object which, in its presentation – here by the example of her work ”anthurie”, has a realistic effect but has been calculated digitally. When looked at more closely, the question of reality becomes loud for us as the viewers. We are faced with a paradox. Similar to how a Koan in the Zen or an aphorism opens up our thoughts for a different world in its contrariness when standing still through a pause in the paradoxes, access is found to the moment which can allow the void to arise which leads you to stay and to the New.
Christoph Balzar & Birgit Lothmann "Naiades", 2002 from the Series "A0"
Digital Print, on Alluminium
70 x 50 cm
Edition: 33
Price: € 420,--
Victoria Coeln "farbraum_digital_1a-1c", 2003
(Original: Chromogramm)
Epson Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
each 30 x 43 cm
Edition: each 3
Price: each € 400,--
Price: complete € 1.200,--
Color is visible light. Pure color, free of figure, leads us into pure sense, to the origin of our emotion. Victoria Coeln
Stephan Fischer "Das Picknick", 2003
Piezo Print
84 x 119 cm
Edition: 2
Price: € 980,--
Wolfgang Hoffmann "Rotgrünschwarz", 2002
(Original photograph of the Lake of Constance)
Inkjet Print on handmade paper
30 x 40 cm
Unique Copy
Price: € 500,--
Michaela Karch "Magdalena 1-3", 2002/2003
from a several part series
Digital Prints on photo paper, mounted on Forex
each 60 x 60 cm
Edition: each 3
Price: each € 350,--
Julie Monaco "CS_0/2", 2002
Lambda Print
24 x 42 cm
Edition: 3
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Martin Muehlhoff & Christian Vossiek
"Ruinen", from a series of 7 single motives
Piezo-Pigment Print
30 x 40 cm
Edition: 5
Price: € 520,--
Gabriele Nagel "Someone-Nowhere # 05"
from the C-Print Series "01-09"
C-Print behind glass
90 x 120 cm
Edition: 5
Price: € 1.850,--
Frank Voigt "Embryo", 2003, Videostills, 3-teilig
Digital Prints, Framed
each 50 x 50 cm
Unique Copy
Price: € 2.400,-- kompl.
Fredi Voss "Urbane Standard Aussichtseinheit"
3D-Computer Graphic
Digital Print on MDF plate
35 x 75,5 cm
Edition: 15
Price: € 525,--
Andreas Wenz "Forever Plugged out", 2003
Giclée on Epson Enhanced Matt paper
60 x 80 cm
Edition: 5
Price: € 570,--
Seoung-won Won "Regenwald", 2003
Lambda Print, mounted on Aludibond
160 x 100 cm
Edition: 7
Price: € 2.600,--
All descriptions refer to the date of the actual exhibition
