BLUME, Anna & Bernhard - SX-70. Polaroids 1975-2000

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Background information

"The large and grotesque photo series by Anna and Bernhard BLUME are now well-known. The artists stage paranormal events, in a documentary style, within typical bourgeois settings or in regions that have symbolic meaning in the German art world (e.g. the Black Forest). The objects (dishes, plants, fruit and vegetables) and the protagonists (mainly the artists themselves, dressed up as bourgeois characters) are spun into the air, fly off, levitate above the ground or roll around. The undercurrent of madness that is inherent in every domestic life is made visible. The BLUME’s largely unknown Polaroid pieces are characteristic of all of they work, with one trivial difference: they are all small colour photos. Simultaneously banal and precious, intimate and bizarre, the Polariods are miniature pieces planned to the smallest detail, possessing no less artistic cogency than their monumental counterparts and with a clear stylistic development of their own.

Content

This artist’s book 'SX-70' by Anna & Bernhard BLUME contains colour illustrations of around 240 Polaroids from a 25-year period. These are presented in four groups: 'Polaroid SX-70 – 1975/76', 'natürlich' (natural) – '1982/85, gegenseitig' (reciprocal)' – '1986/89' and 'Prinzip Grausamkeit' (engl.: the principle of cruelty) - 1990/98. Each of the individual groups of work are introduced by texts by Anna and Bernhard Blume themselves. Informative essays by Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais and the BLUME’s gallerist Francoise Paviot interpret the Polaroid works from various perspectives, placing it within an art historical context." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2010)

About German photographers, Anna & Bernhard BLUME

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