| |
|
|
|
Venue
Teloglion Foundation of Art / Thessaloniki French Institute / Museum of Byzantine Culture
Artist
Daniel & Geo Fuchs
 Artists's biography |
| |
|
|
|
 |
|
TOYS, Andy Warhol, photography, 2005 |
|
|
 |
|
Untersuchungsgefängnis Potsdam, Fotostuhl, photo |
|
|
 |
|
TOYS, Astroboy, color photograph, 2004 |
|
|
 |
|
Berlin, Mielke Etage, Flur, fotograph, 2004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOYS
The photographic series TOYS thematizes the remarkably political and ideological world of collectible toy figures, sold and traded internationally. These large scale portraits of toy figures - representing superheroes such as Superman or Batman, actors and artists such as Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Andy Warhol, and even political leaders such as George W. Bush or his opponent Saddam Hussein – swiftly blurs lines between fact and fiction, between person and media image, between play and reality. Indeed, the effect of re-representing all these varied personas as toy figures is both sinister and humorous
STASI
In 2004, Daniel and Geo Fuchs began investigate the visual remains of the Stasi, the Ministry for State Security, responsible for both domestic political surveillance and foreign espionage, that was created in 1950 by the GDR regime of then East Germany. More than 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin wall and the demise of the Eastern bloc, many Stasi locations remain virtually untouched and the furnishings of the offices unchanged. Clarified by thorough research and generated with great formal precision, this series of large-format photographs– of interrogation rooms, archives of the Gauck/Birthler authority with endless stacks of protocols of control and espionage, prison cells for political prisoners in Bautzen, the border crossing in Marienborn - give precise insights into Stasi architecture, its everyday operation and working mechanisms.
|
|
|
|
|
