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Ulrike Ottinger
ISBN: 9783775734622
(HB - E/ G)
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Distant cultures, exotic images: the most important works by the photographer/filmmaker
After starting as a painter, curator, and publisher in the 1960s, Ulrike Ottinger (*1942 in Konstanz) found her artistic home in the medium of film. In her numerous projects she has developed an inimitable, unconventional visual vocabulary, which seldom permits a clear separation between the documentary and the fictional. Her works live precisely through the dialogue between the two poles. With the trilogy Bildnis einer Trinkerin - Aller jamais retour (Portrait of a Female Drunkard-Ticket of No Return, 1979), Freak Orlando (1981), and Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press, 1984) Ottinger created a monument to her home town of Berlin, while at the same time producing an absurd, theatrical, and historically charged universe. This publication presents her most significant works, including the current eight-channel installation Floating Food (2011), in which the artist provides an audio-visual summary of her journeys to distant lands and cultures, drawing attention to cultural phenomena and rituals.
Exhibition schedule: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, May 29-October 6, 2012
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