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JEFF WALL.
PHOTOGRAPHS
1978 - 2004
30.04.2005 - 25.09.2005
Schaulager
Ruchfeldstrasse 19
CH - 4142 Münchenstein / Basel
T: +41 61 335 32 32 F: +41 61 335 32 30
info@schaulager.org
http://www.schaulager.org
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12-18h
12-19h
10-17h
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Jeff Wall
Overpass 2001
Transparency in lightbox
214 x 273.5 cm
© Jeff Wall
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"Jeff Wall. Photographs 1978-2004". The Schaulager exhibition features some seventy pictures and thus offers the first opportunity to appreciate the full range and diversity of the Canadian artist's work over the last 25 years.
Jeff Wall (born 1946) has been making photographs since 1967. He first created his large-format colour transparencies in 1978; for the past ten years, he has also been making black and white photographs on paper. A feature of Jeff Wall's photographs is that they are neither part of series nor are they composed as groups of works. Each picture is an individual composition in its own right. Some of these pictures have become icons of contemporary photography, yet many others are little known.
The exhibition shows how, apart from the technical and thematic innovations, a new pictorial concept has gradually taken shape in this oeuvre. Echoing Baudelaire, Jeff Wall long ago referred to this pictorial concept as the "painting of modern life", but evolving a hundred years later under quite different conditions and using the
language of photography.
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Jeff’s Choice (film cycle)
On the occasion of the exhibition Jeff Wall has put together a series of films that have influenced his work. Among them are movies by great European authors such as Ingmar Bergman, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and others as well as movies by American directors such as Terrence Malick and Frederick Wiseman. Beginning in mid-August at Stadtkino Basel (www.stadtkinobasel.ch).
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Exhibition catalogue
A catalogue raisonné will be published in connection with the exhibition. (Approx. 121 full-page illustrations) Edited by Schaulager. Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen. Price: CHF 62.-
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