Candida Höfer Lot n° 47

Candida Höfer Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Herzog & de Meuron 2016 C-print, mounted flush on Aludibond. 139.5 x 157.5 cm (184 x 201.5 cm frame). Artist's label on the reverse, signed in felt-tip pen and with typewritten work details. Copy 2/6 - In artist's frame. Provenance Galerie Rüger Schöttle, Munich; private collection, Berlin Literature Dirk Luckow (ed.), Elbphilharmonie Revisited, exhib. cat. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cologne 2017, p. 102 with ill. "Candida Höfer deals with the significance of private and public spaces. Her works mostly show deserted, seemingly timeless interiors that are characterized by the absence of recognizable dramaturgical interventions. Photographed without additional lighting, the types of spaces depicted - museums, theaters, libraries, opera houses, waiting rooms, foyers or churches - usually appear cool and objective. Höfer's distanced, objectifying perspective is related to the New Vision of the 1920s and stands in contrast to the journalistic-documentary view. In the [...] 22 large-format motifs of the Elbphilharmonie from 2016, Höfer makes more than the architecture visible - in the austere images, which include both generous views of the building and detailed shots, the artist examines the building: the escalator in the entrance area, the spiral driveway of the parking garage, the concert hall, the striking roof wave. In the process, both the materiality and the structure of the architecture are sublimated." (quoted from Angela Rosenberg, in: Dirk Luckow (ed.), op. cit., p. 12).