Karin Ottmann
"The light they see from above and from the
distance of a fire behind them," such harmless is in Plato's Politeia, what
unfolds in the dark windows of the Gothic sacral architecture, the cords of
Feininger and the palaces of modern cinema into eternally new effects. *
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Ottmann got the Arts Award 1997 for
unusual copy-art. She photographed factory buildings and continued them into
large works of printed and enlarged copies. Sometimes she used even just
everyday appliances such as washing machines, which she photographed and
metabolized into copy-artworks. Even in these objects was the relationship
between planning ideas, technical design principles and everyday architectures.
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The newer works in the
exhibition at the H2 now issued in three rooms, are also about this
theoretical field - sometimes ironical-iconic with a TV between bottles,
sometimes conceptually with traditional and reproductive techniques of
painting for churches like the Russ drawing. Otherwise, her ornamental
drawings with charcoal and pencil show stucco cornices, the monastery
church of Ursberg and the church of St. George in Haunstetten, combined
and intermingled with a balcony in modern living architectures, sometimes
even adorned with satellite dishes.
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...since 1990 lecturer at the University of
Augsburg, created along with her former professor at the Academy of the Fine
Arts in Munich, Prof. Thomas Zacharias.
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