"Catalogue book to the exhibition series 'with / against the flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions' . The surrounding dust jacket of the volume can be folded into a poster." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"New technical developments, floods of images and blurring boundaries between reality and fiction: For the exhibition series' with / against the flow 'contemporary photographic interventions', photographic positions were selected in which new forms of pictorial reality are used to question our society of the spectacle.
The much-revered flood of images in the works of artists living in Germany is both a tool and an object of investigation. The intervention in the pictorial material or in the external reality thereby combines the manifold, artistic works." (free translated text, © ifa)
"Sebastian STUMPF places his own body in relation to the urban spaces, urban constructions and to pedestrians. He uses fire prevention spaces between high-rise buildings or closing garage doors for small interventions that he always performs himself.
In this combination of performance and photography he enacts absurd movements that contradict the predefined urban order. By repeating exactly the same movements in different places, his photographs and videos come to focus less on the need for order in urban spaces and more on their potential for individual and idiosyncratic action. Sebastian STUMPF's camera angles are very precise compositions of urban arrangements, to which he adds his personal performative elements. He sets his actions against the purely factual gaze of the camera." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2019)
"The exhibition series 'with / against the flow. Contemporary photographic interventions.' shows contemporary artistic photography from Germany, juxtaposed with contributions from two artists in each exhibition, each double exhibition heading for a multi-year world tour.
Previously involved artists
Inside: Viktoria Binschtok (vol. 1, 2016), Michael Schäfer (vol.2, 2016), Sebastian Stumpf (vol.3, 2019), Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (vol.4, 2019)
On the design of the catalogs: the catalogs appear as a publication series and are designed in a light, experimental and open-looking form. The editions of the series are structured by means of a color concept and the artistic works are presented compactly in image series (with the participation of the participating photographers).
In the image sections, among other things, greatly enlarged details and 1: 1 cutouts are integrated, which look like close-ups and allow an additional unusual view of the work; an black-and-white text section on thin natural paper follows. This text contains an interview, installation views and a studio shot, which is realized by the artists themselves.
The flexible carton for the dust jacket and the binding as a folder brochure give the catalog a booklet character. On the dust jacket a selected piece of work will be reproduced in poster size." (free translated and slightly modified text, © Nicola REITER)
More photo books by the photographer, Sebastian STUMPF, are:
'Leaving Again' (2008)
'A Way' (2011)
About the photographer, Sebastian STUMPF (b. 1980 in Würzburg):
Sebastian STUMPF lives in Leipzig and Berlin
"New technical developments, floods of images and blurring boundaries between reality and fiction: For the exhibition series' with / against the flow 'contemporary photographic interventions', photographic positions were selected in which new forms of pictorial reality are used to question our society of the spectacle.
The much-revered flood of images in the works of artists living in Germany is both a tool and an object of investigation. The intervention in the pictorial material or in the external reality thereby combines the manifold, artistic works." (free translated text, © ifa)
"Sebastian STUMPF places his own body in relation to the urban spaces, urban constructions and to pedestrians. He uses fire prevention spaces between high-rise buildings or closing garage doors for small interventions that he always performs himself.
In this combination of performance and photography he enacts absurd movements that contradict the predefined urban order. By repeating exactly the same movements in different places, his photographs and videos come to focus less on the need for order in urban spaces and more on their potential for individual and idiosyncratic action. Sebastian STUMPF's camera angles are very precise compositions of urban arrangements, to which he adds his personal performative elements. He sets his actions against the purely factual gaze of the camera." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2019)
"The exhibition series 'with / against the flow. Contemporary photographic interventions.' shows contemporary artistic photography from Germany, juxtaposed with contributions from two artists in each exhibition, each double exhibition heading for a multi-year world tour.
Previously involved artists
Inside: Viktoria Binschtok (vol. 1, 2016), Michael Schäfer (vol.2, 2016), Sebastian Stumpf (vol.3, 2019), Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (vol.4, 2019)
On the design of the catalogs: the catalogs appear as a publication series and are designed in a light, experimental and open-looking form. The editions of the series are structured by means of a color concept and the artistic works are presented compactly in image series (with the participation of the participating photographers).
In the image sections, among other things, greatly enlarged details and 1: 1 cutouts are integrated, which look like close-ups and allow an additional unusual view of the work; an black-and-white text section on thin natural paper follows. This text contains an interview, installation views and a studio shot, which is realized by the artists themselves.
The flexible carton for the dust jacket and the binding as a folder brochure give the catalog a booklet character. On the dust jacket a selected piece of work will be reproduced in poster size." (free translated and slightly modified text, © Nicola REITER)
More photo books by the photographer, Sebastian STUMPF, are:
'Leaving Again' (2008)
'A Way' (2011)
About the photographer, Sebastian STUMPF (b. 1980 in Würzburg):
Sebastian STUMPF lives in Leipzig and Berlin
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Florian Ebner, Christin Müller
- Book design
- Nicola REITER
- Format
- Pb. with poster as dust jacket, 22 x 28 x 1 cm., 72 pp., with 42 color & 11 b/w ills., bilingual texts: German / English