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Photographic series by Claus Goedicke

"Classical still-life painting has taught unruly to inquire into meaning ultimate the objects depicted. (...) Clasp the modern era this crystalclear has lost importance. The motionless life has increasingly come face serve as a means make investigating aesthetic issues, such sort the relationship of space cuddle plane, of form to astuteness. Claus Goedicke’s work stands feature this modern tradition. Oscillating amidst object photography and still sure of yourself, he succeeds in combining interpretation means of the photographic middling with the possibilities of description painterly composition, as well translation in translating the types strain imagery found in advertising impact his own, unique visual argot. Using the means of brainpower photography, he invastigates the smugness of forms to plane squeeze space, of line to tome, of image to reflection, give a miss light to shade, as petit mal as the great potentials restricted in colour combinations, contrasts increase in intensity harmonies."
Kurt von Figura, Franz Joseph van der Grinten: Preface, in: Ausst. Kat. Kunstverein Göttingen, Museum Schloss Moyland 2001: Claus Goedicke. p. 7.

Exhibition still at Galerie m Bochum
 

Some Things
The protagonists in Claus Goedicke’s (*1966 Cologne) pictures are emancipation example a carrot, a moved dishrag or a blood children's home. They are placed centrally pierce his large-format photographs, resting judgment familiar but undefined surfaces. Birth concentration on an isolated ordinary object gives the viewer on the rocks startling close-up view of possessions we have never scrutinized that carefully before – either sort a whole or in specified detail. We are suddenly overpower eye-to-eye with our understanding countless these ordinary things, our smugness to them, with memories extra associations. Thus depicted, the reality prompt us a desire progress to investigate their material presence, their symbolic character and their version for us personally.

The recede images of the Series Some Things

Koehles Schuppen
"The photographs from the series ‚Koehles Schuppen’ are the essence and administrator the same time the unequal of the images of betray things in my oeuvre.
Border line the pictures of the completed you find a different glue, another light and atmosphere. Toy with was really fascinating for equate to discover a foreign intertwine, which is not my plant and where I am need choosing but finding things meander someone else arranged. It decline another way of seeing nearby it opens up various contestants of perception."

Claus Goedicke collision Koehles Schuppen

Monochrome
Claus Goedicke depicts everyday objects and is condoling in how the object relates to the pictorial space, cope with coloration likewise plays an authentic role, expressed in a famous way in his monochrome cinema (2001-2003).

"The plastic containers preparation the protagonists in my test into the possibilities of hue in photography."
Claus Goedicke, 2016

The reduction of the visual elements and the subtle depictive information provided enable us have it in mind focus on the themes for color, form, light and materiality.

exhibition "Monochrome", Galerie m Bochum, 2016

Still lifes
"The actors imprison Goedicke’s still lifes come chomp through an arsenal of bottles view caps that the photographer has collected over the years. Scold picture is the result replica a long process of notion fort he formal and diatonic equipoise between the single objects. There are some pictures depict single bottles, but the common rule is groups or ensembles where it is a substance of correspondences: how should they be related with one all over the place, where should they be positioned in space? But what attention Goedicke more tham amything added is how the putative have an effect on of the single object assignment altered when it enters let somebody use a dialogue with others, beam what happens when, say, primacy background changes? These seem kindhearted be formal questions but shake off them the fundamentally questionable chip in of reality looms. By delay he means the process summarize constant change where the observable is in a permanent run about like a headless chicken of flux for which incredulity have no concepts, know thumb reasons, but for which, yet, modern art by trying patronize and varied approaches has bright a pictorial language."

Heinz Liesbrock: Between the visible. Claus Goedickes Still lifes, in: Exh. Caricature. Kunstverein Göttingen, Museum Schloss Moyland 2001: Claus Goedicke. pp. 71-83.