Stefanie Schneider - handgesigneerd - Exibitioncard California 2012 - Verkocht

S. Schneider - uitnodigingskaart - Exibition California 2012 - handgesigneerd

afmetingen 21,0x 14,8 cm

met zilver Parker gesigneerd

in goede staat

Schneider's solo exhibition of photographs "Stranger than Paradise" will be for some a tough sell.The German-born, LA and Berlin-based artist's pictures are surprisingly painterly, not in that thick, expressive mode of oils, but like watercolors, lightly stained and very fluid. The gesture of using expired Polaroid film to created washed out surfaces of already sun-drenched landscapes feels just as much a nod to the times of old amateur photography as it does a tribute to 29 Palms.To recall the 2008 discontinuation of Polaroid Corporation's much loved, but now seldom used, film (first introduced in 1948) adds poignancy to Schneider's pictures, most of which were shot between 1999 and 2007.

Enigmatic reconstructions of dream-like road trips through mythic desert topographies in the old Polaroid idiom might feel too predictable. But at the same time, an undeniable, at times confrontational, poetics of technique keeps Schneider's pictures alive and, indeed, full of light.