Exhibition
Architectural photographs and images of the city are a major thematic focus of the SpallArt Collection. The selection ranges from early Far Eastern city views from the second half of the 19th century to works of the New Seeing of the 1930s to contemporary positions and video works. Under several broad aspects, the exhibition shows over 100 works, while also offering an interesting glimpse behind the scenes and into the collection's depot.
Depot of the SpallArt Collection
Jakob-Auer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg
open on October 7, 2023
for the lange Nacht der Museen from 6 pm to 1 am
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The history of photography is closely connected with urban space and the image of the city. The very first photograph of a living person was taken in the city. It is the well-known photograph by Louis Daguerre of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris from 1838. It shows a busy street, but the traffic was moving too fast to be captured in the exposure time of 4 to 5 minutes. The exception is the man visible on the lower left, who stood still long enough because he was having his shoes polished.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851)
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3. Arrondissement, 1838
Daguerrotypie
With the exhibition, we have tried to capture the theme of Urban Spaces from different points of view with works from the collection. Individual aspects of urban space are presented in ten chapters. The boundaries of these thematic blocks are not to be seen quite rigidly; many works could be assigned to several thematic blocks.
Die fremde Stadt (the foreign city) shows with very early photographs, for example by Domenico Bressolin from Venice in the 1850s or photographs from Damascus by Félix Bonfils from the 1870s, an exotic image of longing for the city. In Räume der Stadt (the spaces of the city), we have tried to assemble the most diverse approaches to the documentation of the urban space and especially the role of man in it, in contrast to Das Flimmern der Stadt (the flicker of the city), which is characterized by light and shadow. Die verborgene Stadt (the hidden city) shows works by Hanns Otte, who throughout his life has been concerned with the unknown and uninviting spaces of the city. Die produktive Stadt (the productive city) is only rudimentarily represented in this exhibition, yet the selection of works on this aspect would fill an exhibition of its own. In the chapter Die Farben der Stadt (the colors of the city), we have made a selection with a purely formal view, although some of the images at the same time reveal quite different themes. Die Stadt als Bühne (the city as a stage) and Die Eroberung der Stadt (the conquest of the city) show works that engage in a play with the city and its inhabitants. In the gallery of our depot there are two more chapters on Die dunkle Stadt (the dark city), showing night shots of the city, and Die fiktive Stadt (the fictional city), with works that approach and expand the theme in a playful way.
Exhibition views
With works from
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Werner Bischof, Théodore Blanc & Antoine Demilly, Hubert Blanz, Hans Blesius, Félix Bonfils, Adolphe Braun, Domenico Bresolin, Günter Brus, Harry Callahan, Daniele Cametti Aspri, W.P.A. Chambers, Edward Clark, Stéphane Couturier, Jack Delano, Pierre Descamps, Julius Deutschbauer & Gerhard Spring, František Drtikol, Adolf Fassbender, Andreas Fogarasi, Paul Freiberger, Gelitin, Mario Giacomelli, Esther Hagenmaier, Nguyen Ngoc Hanh, Lou Jacobs jr., Leo Kandl, Leopold Kessler, William Klein, Nikolaus Korab, Germaine Krull, Claudia Larcher, Bernard Larsson, Isabelle Le Minh, Lehnert & Landrock, Daniel Leidenfrost, Gerda Leopold, Maik & Dirk Löbbert, Cécile Machlup, Till Megerle, Walfred Robert Moisio, Lennart Nilsson, Jeff Nixon, Ferdinand Ongania, Hanns Otte, Joel Peck, Marc Peschke, Karl Peters, Andrew Phelps, Roland Pleterski, Vilém Reichmann, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Stephan Reusse, Franz Riedl, Wolfgang Schriever, Werner Schrödl, Fritz Simak, Aaron Siskind, Otto Steinert, Alex Stöcker, Studio Souissi, Rudolf Sulke, Andrea Tonellotto, Anton Trofymov, Barbara Trommeter & Gregor Szabó, Gerhard Trumler, Gerhard Ullmann, Burk Uzzle, Jan Vollmann, Martin Walde, Todd Webb, Michael Wesely, Garry Winogrand, Erwin Wurm, Robert Zahornicky and Zangaki Brothers.
Exhibition catalogue