Photo Exhibition: The World as One

April 3rd, 2008

Photo Exhibition: “The World as One
Photography from Germany after 1989″
premières in Bangalore

It is a unique experience for Bangalore to host international art exhibitions and the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan is especially proud to bring a world-class exhibition of this magnitude to our City. “The World as One” is an exhibition of the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, another one in its series on documentary photography, with more than 250 works from 19 contributing artists, that is currently touring the sub-continent - Bangalore being the first station.

Event           :       The World as One
Photography from Germany after 1989
Date            :       April 5 to 19, 2008
Inauguration at 6.30 p.m. on April 5, 2008
with Introduction by the Curator Ulf Erdmann Ziegler
Timings :       10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. from April 6, 2008
Venue           :       Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath

An exhibition of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations

Free Entry. All are welcome!

For further details please contact the Bhavan: 2520 5305/6/7/8 or visit our website: www.goethe.de/bangalore

“The World as One”
“The artist on the prowl… the world as his territory.” The entire world is the workplace of the documentary photographer.” “The World as One” traces the chronological progression of documentary photography into the last decade of the 20th century, following the unification of East and West Germany, after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the re-integration of Europe.

The exhibits reflect the uniqueness of this historical situation, at the same time paying special attention to its social, political and cultural consequences. The 19 contributing artists view their social environments from different perspectives. Each documents, in his or her own unique way, the aspects of their individual realities that interest them the most. The exhibition presents a palette of sensitive pictorial observation, which is a strong tradition in Germany. Akin to photo-reporting though the works are, however, they go beyond mere documentation into the realm of aesthetic pictorial idiom, especially in subtle colour.

The exhibition is dedicated to artists who do not differentiate between other people’s commissions and their own work; who show “the world as one”; whose personal involvement encourages reflection rather than trying to shock; and who do not expose but rather respect the dignity of the sitters, both in letter and spirit.

More information on “The World as One” is in the attached document. Please also visit our website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/kue/en2991267.htm

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