STÉPHANE COUTURIER
Melting Point Series

Opening: November 06, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 07.11. - 12.12.2010

The Ursula Blickle Stiftung presents the Melting Point Series, the largest solo exhibition in Germany of the work of Stéphane Couturier. It features current photographic and cinematic works by the Paris-based artist, who since the late 1990s has been considered one of the major representatives of contemporary photography in France. The most recent development in his oeuvre is characterized by an increasingly intense focus on the medium of film. Couturier employs the possibilities of photography and film, respectively, to take the formal ordering structures of architectural, industrial, and urban situations and condense them into new visual constructions. Building facades, bridges, streets, construction sites, and other elements of public space photographed from various perspectives are combined to produce a transitory state in the cinematic or photographic image: the effect alternates between an objective, documentary excerpt of reality and a combination of details, perspectives, rows, and views in, out, and through that does not function in reality. Each of the artist’s works turns out to be an absolute visual experience, conveyed by Stéphane Couturier, the master of maximizing visual and temporal information.

Curator: Dr. Martin Hochleitner, director of the Landesgalerie Linz