Karaoke – Photographic Quotes

Karaoke – Photographic Quotes

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs, Wires, 2008
. From: The Great Unreal
. Gelatin-silver print, 30 x 42 cm
. Courtesy of the artists
. © Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs.

October 23, 2009

Karaoke – Photographic Quotes
24 October 2009 – 7 February 2010

Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland
Phone: +41 52 234 10 60

www.fotomuseum.ch

Karaoke
Photographic Quotes

Seems familiar? We are constantly bombarded by images and information – at school, at work, in newspapers and on the web. All of these stimuli carry a multitude of underlying codes. Day in and day out, we navigate our way, more or less successfully, through a torrent of texts and images, subtle advertising messages and hard facts, official instructions and personal messages. New and long-established media alike vie for our undivided attention. What we tend to overlook is the fact that we are increasingly subject to a second, media-dominated reality in which we are no longer directly involved.

The exhibition featuring works by Becky Beasley (GB), Thomas Galler (CH), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL), Thomas Julier (CH), Anja Manfredi (A), Ryan McGinley (USA), Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs (CH/CH), Clunie Reid (GB) and Oliver Sieber (D) explores this densely woven tapestry of direct and indirect experience, of immediate and mediated seeing. It quietly flags up the relationships and juxtapositions that permeate our casual, everyday navigation of parallel worlds. The young generation of artists presented here draw their inspiration from found images and their own creative originality, mapping out new territory in contemporary art photography. In this context, the term Karaoke symbolises a certain pleasure in citing and trying out familiar patterns and styles. The karaoke machine invented in 1971 by Daisuke Inoue presents melodies and lyrics hesitantly at first and then with increasing confidence. In this popular, non-hierarchical form of entertainment, the serious and the light-hearted are never far apart. Singing along develops into individual interpretation and imitation develops into innovation.

Main sponsor: UBS

Sunday, 25 October at 11.30 a.m., artist’s talks with Thomas Galler, Anja Manfredi, Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs, Clunie Reid and Oliver Sieber will take place.

The exhibition catalogue is published by Kodoji Press, Baden:
KARAOKE – Photographic Quotes, edited by Thomas Seelig, 100 pages, with 121 shuffled visual and textual quotes from Ansel Adams to Slavoj Žižek, from Becky Beasley to Oliver Sieber and from William Shakespeare to Marilyn Monroe.

Still on display until 15 November 2009 (Main Gallery and Gallery):
Darkside II – Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed
( www.fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=8&L=1 )

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Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44+45
CH-8400 Winterthur (Zurich)
Switzerland

Phone: +41 52 234 10 60
Fax. +41 52 233 60 97
e-mail: fotomuseum@fotomuseum.ch

www.fotomuseum.ch

Opening hours: Tue – Sun 11am – 6pm, Wed 11am – 8pm, closed on Mondays

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