Wahre Lügen - Claus Feldmann & Joachim Seinfeld

WAHRE LÜGEN / TRUE LIES

Claus Feldmann – Schiffsmeldungen

Joachim Seinfeld – Wenn Deutsche lustig sind
(Photographie)

15. May – 12.July 2014

In our era of Photoshop we can't be sure anymore if a
photo captured a true moment of our lives and made
reality visible. New techniques enable a lot more than
sophisticated retouching.

In our exhibition Wahre Lügen – True Lies we present
works by two artists who create their own reality, each
one in their own vision.

The German novelist Monika Zeiner wrote about Claus
Feldmann's works: "If David Lynch, Edward Hopper and
Caspar David Friedrich designed a film together, I would
imagine this film like a series of Feldmann's images. You
want to stand in front of these pictures infinitely,
because unfortunately you can't enter the scene."

Feldmann's images which look like film stills admittedly
show man made sceneries, but no one is ever to be
seen. The black-and-white works of Joachim Seinfeld are
the complete opposite: The artist places himself
disguised (most often repeatedly) into documentary
photos of German history, thus creating a tongue-in-
cheek self-portrait within a historical context. The
viewer's confusion due to this docu-fiction is intended.