Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower

ISBN-13: 9783944669014 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str.

Matthias Hoch;Harald Kunde;Andreas Maier

Opis

The old Federal Republic of Germany is history--a fact made especially poignant by these photos of the abandoned Dresdner Bank building. The tower--the most beautiful high-rise in Frankfurt on Main--was opened in 1978 as the bank's head office. The construction was planned by ABB Scheid und Partner architects office, the corporate design was developed by Otl Aicher. Following the bank's acquisition by Commerzbank in 2009 the head office of Dresdner Bank was vacated. In Silver Tower, a series of pictures taken between 2009 and 2011, photographer Matthias Hoch explores the deserted building. He looks for signs and remnants of an era, for the biography of the place. Meticulously structured surfaces, signs of wear and the interplay of light and shade are probed to reveal their traces to the camera: scratches, marks, layers.

O autorze

Harald Kunde ist Direktor des Museums Kurhaus Kleve. Vorher war er Direktor des Ludwig-Forums für Internationale Kunst in Aachen und des Kunsthauses Dresden. Er hat zahlreiche Ausstellungen und Publikationen mit zeitgenössischen Künstlern organisiert, darunter Atelier van Lieshout, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Franz Gertsch, Barbara Kruger, Dan Perjovschi, Neo Rauch, Roman Singer und Erwin Wurm.