{"id":39452,"date":"2021-04-28T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schloss-kummerow.de\/exhibitions-and-photographic-collection\/exhibition-touch-down-by-michael-soltau-2019\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T10:48:02","slug":"exhibition-touch-down-by-michael-soltau-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schloss-kummerow.de\/en\/exhibitions-and-photographic-collection\/exhibition-touch-down-by-michael-soltau-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition Touch Down by Michael Soltau 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhibition Touch Down
\nby Michael Soltau<\/h1>\n

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Exhibition by Michael Soltau<\/h2>\n

The Photography collection – Kummerow Castle<\/em> presents a video installation in the cabinet for the first time. The special exhibition Touch down<\/em> by Michael Soltau consists of a multimedia production that combines light, sound and space. For the recently retired professor of fine arts and visual media, the focus is on working with photography, video, installation and performance. The video installation \u201cTouch Down\u201d, which is shown at Kummerow Castle, consists of four photographic back projections of flying feathers on semi-transparent glass surfaces. They approach the picture surface in a slow-motion rhythm before they move away again after pausing for a brief moment.<\/p>\n

*** The opening of the special exhibition Touch down<\/em> will take place on Thursday, September 5th, 2019 at 6 p.m. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dialogue between the artist Michael Soltau and Aileen Kunert from the Photography collection – Schloss Kummerow<\/em><\/h3>\n

Kummerow Castle:<\/strong> When I first saw your video installation, I immediately thought of a photograph brought to life. As is Touch down<\/em> perceived by other viewers?<\/p>\n

Michael Soltau:<\/strong> The installation was shown for the first time as part of the \u201cPINK PONG\u201d exhibition in Szczecin in 2010. There it was part of a series of rooms that were presented to the audience like a cabinet in the Villa Lentz. It is precisely in reacting to the respective spatial situation, in developing a dramaturgy of the rooms to be entered, the effect for the recipient is ensured. From attentive uncertainty to friendly sympathy, I have so far registered an open interest in the work.<\/p>\n

Schloss Kummerow:<\/strong> The transitions between photography and moving images are becoming increasingly blurred. We already show some videos in the photographic collection. It was therefore a logical step for me to also use video art in the cabinet. How do you feel about the relationship between photography and video installation?<\/p>\n

Michael Soltau: <\/strong>Since my intensive examination of the audiovisual media in the field of visual art during my studies in the 1970s, I was convinced from the start that the use of video technology in particular requires a different approach than the new medium now available to everyone as understand cheap film replacement. The opportunity to make sure of the present in the picture was a particular challenge. The sound was added as an additional design medium, and the spatial staging was downright absorbing. In my opinion, a visual artist is ultimately always interested in a picture. A filmmaker develops a script-like narrative with a plot. In the visual arts, this moment comes into play primarily in performance. Certainly today there are also transitional forms and penetrations that inspire each other, especially in the everyday world characterized by media.<\/p>\n

The increasingly high-resolution video technologies have currently opened up a perspective that photography and video are approaching each other in terms of technical perfection and are almost equal to one another in terms of processing options. Thus, the minimally moving video image moves increasingly in the direction of the Still image<\/em> of photography. This results in interesting new forms of expression in the exhibition context.<\/p>\n

Biography Michael Soltau<\/h3>\n

1953<\/strong> born in Oldenburg \/ Oldenburg
\n1974-1980<\/strong> Studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart<\/em>
\n1975-1977<\/strong> Studied art history at the University of Stuttgart<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 1983<\/strong> Free artistic activity and teaching activity
\n1984-1994<\/strong> Lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart<\/em>
\n1990-1992<\/strong> Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz on Institute for Communication Design<\/em>
\n1992-1997<\/strong> Artistic-Scientific Assistant at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg<\/em>
\n1996\/97<\/strong> Visiting professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt \/ M.<\/em><\/p>\n

1997-2019<\/strong> Professorship at the University of Greifswald \/ Caspar David Friedrich Institute<\/em> (Fine arts, visual media and their didactics)<\/p>\n

2002-2004<\/strong> Member of the cultural advisory board of Ministry of Education, Science and Culture<\/em> in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania<\/p>\n

2005\/2006<\/strong> Member of the European Commission for the Selection of Artistic Projects Culture 2000 Program \/ Visual Arts in Brussels<\/p>\n

Michael Soltau lives and works in Leipzig and Greifswald.
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The special exhibition<\/h2>\n

Period of the exhibition<\/strong>
\n06 September – 31 October 2019<\/p>\n

Entry to special exhibition:<\/strong> 7.50 EUR p. P. *
\nGroups (from 20 adults):<\/strong> 6.00 EUR p. P. *
\nAnnual pass:<\/strong> 50.00 EUR p. P. *<\/p>\n

* Incl. Entry to the photographic collection<\/em><\/p>\n

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