galerie koschmieder | Josef Wolfgang Mayer »Route 96«

»Route 96«

Josef Wolfgang Mayer

Opening: Thursday, October 6, 2016, 19-21h (Facebook Event)
+ Reading (in German) at 20h by Marc Kayser
Exhibition: October 7 – 30, 2016
Curated by Annette Koschmieder

Guided Tour & Artist Talk (held in German): Friday, October 21, 2016, 19-21h
Finissage: Sunday, October 30, 2016, 19-21h

Opening hours: Fri 13-19h, and by appointment
Admission free

Along the German B96 highway, which leads through the eastern part of the country, from Zittau to Rügen, the photographer Josef Wolfgang Mayer explores the German provinces of today.

Houses, cars, plazas, signs, paths, fields and trees form references to the people that are missing in the images. Oscillating between a new beginning and the past, modernity and decay, numerous indications of cultural life and ‘natural states’, the photographs speak with poetic resonance. On the one hand sober, on the other atmospheric and occasionally ironic, the large-scale colour works, which belong to the tradition of straight photography, take the viewer on a visual journey through German sensibilities. 

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