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dressur real
1986 bis 2000
Untitled, Bad Neuenahr 1997
In May 2001, the book dressur real with photographs from
the past 14 years has been published by J. Strauss in Potsdam.
Wolfgang Zurborn dressur real
From the text by Klaus Honnef
Translated from the German by
Jeanne Haunschild
...Wolfgang Zurborn with his workgroup “dressur real”
puts this to the test and shows by photographic means that
photography - no less than painting or digitalized images
- represents, always and inevitably, a construction of the
visibly Real in a twofold meaning of the word, irrespective
of its indexical structure, i.e., the physical imprint of
traces of what had once been. The make-up of his pictures
is correspondingly complex, on the level of their appearance
as well as their formal abstraction. Simultaneously on these
levels, other levels of varying origin additionally cross-connect,
which are of different intensity, space and time, nature and
culture, human and material world, signifier and signified.
In part they network here, in part the different event levels
seem to come about on their own, thanks to perspective, cut
and lighting...
Soft Cover, 30 x 24,5 cm,
80 pages,
73 colour photographs
Zeit Sprung 2001
J. Strauss Verlag Potsdam
Photographs of the series dressur real are included in the Exhibition:
On the Body and other Things - German Photography of the 20th Century
Exhibition curated by Klaus Honnef
and Gabriele Honnef-Harling, 2003/2004
City Gallery Prague, Czech; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; The Museum Moscow House of Photography, Russia; Museum Bochum, Germany
City Gallery Prag, Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Zurborn,
Gursky, 2003
The exhibition is showing more then 300 representative images from
57 authors including photographic work from:
Dieter Appelt, Wolfgang Zurborn, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Candida Höfer,
Karl Bloßfeldt, August Sander, Anna and Bernhard Johannes Blume,
Wolfgang Tillmans,László Moholy-Nagy, Floris Neusüss,
Heinz Hajek-Halke, Klaus Rinke
Contemporary German photography has gained worldwide respect over the
past 10 years. Thanks to systematic education, many leading photographers
have come from Germany and also form the basic foundation for this visual
project. The exhibition maps out the development of German photography
in the 20th century and introduces all key moments from the turn of the
century through Neue Sachlichkeit to conceptual expressions.
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