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zurückerobert by nature - Abandoned places in Calancatal

Abandoned places in an Alpine valley Luoghi abba donati in una valle alpina
photographs by Oliver Gemperle articles from Markus Rottmann and Oliver Gemperle With return of legends from the Calancatal German / Italian 168 pages 63 color illustrations 25 x 39 cm cloth-bound band with € 54, - (D) / 55.50 (A) / CHF 78, - ISBN 978-3-7165-1639-3

Today we are experiencing a unique in human history Rückgang bäuerlichen of life and the thermal spa cultures. The small farmers give up their court and move to the city. This current wave of migration has been neglected in Vorgängerin südbündnerischen Calancatal. For several hundred years from the valleys of the great Bevölkerungsteile Alpensüdseite in the heartbeat of centers have migrated. As a result of the collapse of the mountain economy is undergoing a fundamental landscape change: meadows and pastures are again überwachsen of forest disappear Alpine path, break-wirtschaftsgebäude country. Doch nur in wenigen Regionen ist dieser Vorgang auf so dramatische Weise sichtbar wie im Calancatal, wo die vorliegenden Fotografien von Oliver Gemperle entstanden sind. Neben dem dokumentarischen Wert dieser Aufnahmen steht für den Fotografen im Vordergrund, dass die Bilder die Vergänglichkeit und das an sich unsichtbare Wesen der Zeit visualisieren. Das fotografische Inventar der verlassenen Orte des Calancatals lotet dadurch gekonnt die Schnittstelle zwischen Dokumentar- und Kunstfotografie aus.

Oliver Gemperle, geb. 1972, Grafiker und Fotograf in Zürich. Mitbegründer einer Werbeagentur, die auf soziale und ökologische Anliegen spezialisiert ist. Nach einer Auszeit mit Bergtouren in Asien und in der Schweiz startete er Anfang 2008 his own agency, and began to realize artistic projects.

Markus Rottmann, born 1971, freelance copywriter in Zurich and best climber in the world. Agency career at advertising agencies in Basel and Zurich. Today he takes communication mandates from Switzerland and Germany.

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Exhibition: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - The great unreal



August 21 to September 25, 2010
THE GREAT UNREAL
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs

What happens on a journey through a country Whose infinite production in media and art creates and celebrates its own myth? How can you escape from this maelstrom and discover new images behind the plywood facades?

The photo series „The Great Unreal“ by the Swiss artist duo Taiyo Onorato (born 1979 in Zurich) and Nico Krebs (born 1979 in Winterthur), deals precisely with these issues. After the two artists came in 2005 as fellows from the city of Zurich to New York, they have made several trips across the United States. Originated „on the road“ the photographs formulate the real and fictitious, documented and constructed, images and illusions as ideas that meet each other: We see a group of French fries that were assembled as a group of tourists on a cliff at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Street models made of cardboard are positioned in front of the horizon in relation to the camera, so that they look like real, endless highways. A row of old car tires falls down a hill, as would a galloping buffalo herd. In the tradition of Joel Sternfeld or Stephen Shore, Onorato & Krebs play with the images and myths that shape our view of the "American Way of Life". Without resorting to digital manipulation, they build their own unique worlds. And it is not unusual for the trail that leads to the final image to pass over the expansion of the flat pictorial space to the installation space. What remains is the certainty that each row of deserted terraced housing estates, each magnificent landscape panorama, every abandoned motel could ultimately be the perfect illusion – photography as a means to the sober documentation of reality is questioned self-referentially.