Vorzugsausgabe zum Katalog "Das Fleisch der Wörter", 2000

Dikeou Collection, Denver

The Dance was produced on the occasion of Nancy Spero's solo show at the London's ICA in 1987 and features her iconic goddess figures in an extremely beautiful print. Spero, who passed away in October 2009, is widely recognised as one of the most significant figures in the first wave of feminist artists. Spero's works often take the form of long friezes of hand-printed and collaged paper, featuring figures drawn from ancient myth.

Alice Springs No TAG CO 10092

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Exhibited in a series of forty-eight, each identically formatted image bears a striking similarity to the others while revealing the differences particular to each one. By presenting the lobbies of apartments visible behind glass entrances, variations in décor, lighting, colour and ‘personality’ emerge from banal mid-century architecture, becoming metaphorical of human beings’ simultaneous unity and individuality, while the large windows, for Gergley, ‘offer a complete exchange of visual information from the subject’s illuminated room into the camera’s “darkened room”’. Gergley’s work centers around the role of the photographer in relation to various methods ranging from the classical still-life to the snap shot, and this series is at once an application of typological photography and a refinement of the analytical device of framing found in such work. It is also reminiscent of filmic framing devices, giving the work a Hitchcockian appeal, which is reflected in the film-strip style of installation in the gallery. As Gergley says: ‘It is the camera’s inherent “framing” requirement that has become the analytical tool that assists in recovering knowledge from the subject’. Throughout the history of photography and indeed the natural sciences, typology has been used to clarify thinking. From the oceanic and plant studies of Ernst Haeckel and Karl Blossfeldt through to photographer August Sander and the work of pioneering conceptual photographers Berndt and Hilla Becher, classification of forms has been used to define how relationships work and has been instrumental in documenting the oneness of the world in its most diversified forms.

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Stefan Mauck . PARKEN Kunstverein Celle . 19. Oktober 2008 - 23. November 2008

Serigraph, 1982