Beate Gütschow : R/LS

ArtSway and the Goethe-Institut, London are pleased to announce two exhibitions featuring newly commissioned and existing work by German photographer Beate Gütschow. R/LS marks the first British exhibition by Gütschow, who has previously exhibited widely in Europe and the USA.

Gütschow has developed the landscape photography of her previous ‘LS’ series, in which she reconstructed landscape paintings of the 17th and 18th Century using photographic digital montage. Gütschow’s new works are based upon canvases by Ruisdael - both entitled ‘The Jewish Cemetery’. In response to these paintings Gütschow located the actual Jewish Cemetery featured in Ruisdael’s original. She then sourced and filmed relevant settings in the New Forest and the South of England, such as Corfe Castle, to recreate a close approximation of Ruisdael’s canvases.

Beate Gütschow was born in Mainz, Germany in 1970 and now lives in Berlin. She studied at Hochschule fur bildende Kunste, Hamburg with Bernhard Johannes Blume and Wolfgang Tillmans, experimenting with painting and video as well as photography. She has recently exhibited in the Mutations I touring exhibition that tours seven different venues for the European Month of Photography, and was awarded the Ars Viva Prize in 2006. Beate Gütschow was selected from a group of nominated artists for a residency at ArtSway in September and October 2006.

During the residency ArtSway and the Goethe-institut in London provided mentoring and practical support towards the development of two new video works. These two new works will be shown at the Goethe-Institut, London, from 15 February - 8 April 2007, and included in a larger exhibition, with a selection from the photography series entitled ‘LS’, at ArtSway from 24 February - 8 April 2007.

Beate Gütschow
R/LS

15.02.07 - 08.04.07 Goethe-Institut London
24.02.07 - 08.04.07 ArtSway, Hampshire