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Wolf Kahlen
(*1940)
Wurfbilder I, Mistlau/Jagst,
1971
Material / Technology / Carrier
Fotoleinwand mit 24 Belichtungen und einer aufgeklebten s/w Originalfotografie (a) 20 Originalfotografien auf Pappe (b) Künstlerbuch zur Arbeit, Ed. 2/2 (c)
Dimensions of the object
120,5 x 155,5 (16456 a) cm
Displayed
Not on display
Acquisition
2017 als Schenkung erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Moderne Kunst
in der Pinakothek der Moderne München
Citation
Wolf Kahlen, Wurfbilder I, Mistlau/Jagst, 1971, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Moderne Kunst
in der Pinakothek der Moderne München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Qm45k19LNo (Last updated on 18.02.2025)
‘I'm standing in a cornfield near Mistlau an der Jagst with an
- analogue, non-automatic - Nikon camera in my hand.
I want to ‘capture’ the landscape.
Edgar Gutbub is crouching at the edge of the field, aligning his sculpture with the edge of the field and installing it.
Barbara Kahlen stands at an easel and paints the landscape.
Three medial ways of perceiving and ‘capturing’ the landscape.
I load the camera, set the self-timer, throw it in the air, catch it again.
Again and again.
It ‘takes’ pictures. Random documents of the moment of the landscape now.
From perspectives that emerge as the camera spins in the air at the moment the shutter is released.
None of the pictures show ‘the Mistlau-Jagst landscape’, the pictures are not pieces of a puzzle,
the landscape and situation can only be ‘read over pages’.’
(Quote from Wolf Kahlen)
Translated into English. From: Wolf Kahlen: Wurfbilder / Mistlau-Jagst 1972, Bonn 2016, p. 1.
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