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For media interviews or further information, please contact : |
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Ms Karen Loh |
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Manager (Media Relations) |
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Corporate Relations Department |
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Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts |
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DID : 6512 4017 |
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| 18 June 2008 |
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| real space conceptual space |
| 2 July 2008 - 23 August 2008 |
| NAFA Gallery 3, NAFA Campus 1 |
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| Co-organised by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and Goethe-Institut Singapore, “real space conceptual space” presents three distinctive positions in contemporary German photography. Curated by Ute Eskildsen, the pictures of “public space” featured in this ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziebungen) exhibition explore issues beyond the aesthetic merits or authenticity of a photographic image. Whether in the “painterly” architectural images of Heidi Specker, the conceptual scenes of ‘constructed’ spaces by Thomas Demand, or Susanne Brügger’s dissected town view, the advanced techniques and diverse possibilities of using photography are exemplified with strong emphasis to the perennial questions concerning reality and visual representation. |
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| The exhibition will run from 2nd July to 23 August at NAFA Gallery 3, NAFA Campus 1 (80 Bencoolen Street). It presents 12 colour prints from Specker, seven large-format colour photographs by Demand and eight black and white photos by Brügger. Before making its upcoming debut in Singapore, real space conceptual space had previously traveled to Penang (Malaysia). Thereafter, the show will move on to Jakarta (Indonesia) followed by Hanoi (Vietnam). |
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| Bridget Tracy Tan, Director of Art & Corporate Knowledge, NAFA, said: “This is our fifth project in partnership with Goethe Institut in Singapore, capitalising on the travelling shows of iFA from Germany. Every show continues to embrace diversity, with a high standard of curating and presentation. As with other previous exhibitions, real space conceptual space offers a contemporary medium that combines strengths of both fine art traditions and technology, and also the depth of history. Image-wise, the show's contents remain compelling. And at the end of the day, this is what is important.” |
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| Specker’s work uses the computer as a design tool. She is less interested in a changing exchange of producer and observer, but more in the analogous picture/time reference of the photographic process which is “redrawn” with the aid of new techniques. For Demand, the “real” space has already become transmitted information. He does not photograph in relation to real context, but makes use of published photographs as “models”. Brügger takes a traditional approach in her work - she photographs views of a town. She confronts the experience of the observer with the assessment or legibility of such systems of analysis in her works. |
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| In his essay on the exhibition, Justin Loke, Assistant Curator, NAFA, states: “It would be simplistic to describe this exhibition as one that merely features photographs or photography......Undeniably, the chief medium of these works, from the 1990s, by Susanne Brügger, Thomas Demand and Heidi Specker is photography. Nevertheless, without compromising their aesthetic concerns, the images exemplified the development of contemporary German photography towards application beyond its given framework. Within this expanded field questions and issues regarding reality, space, representation, and the roles of photography arise. In short, real space conceptual space is very much an exhibition of meta-photographs which, in place of theoretical discourse, examines the nature of photography through the practice itself.” (please refer to Annex A for the full essay) |
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| Please refer to Annex B for selected images. High-resolution images are available upon request. |
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| Exhibition Details |
| Opening Ceremony |
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1 July 2008, 6.30pm |
| Exhibition |
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2 July 2008 - 23 August 2008 |
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11am - 7pm (closed on Sundays and public holidays) |
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NAFA Gallery 3, NAFA Campus 1, |
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80 Bencoolen Street, S(189655) |
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FREE |
| For Enquiry |
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Justin Loke at 6512 4044 or email: artgalleries@nafa.edu.sg |
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