The Best of Photography - g27

In the exhibition The Best of Photography, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie confront the viewer with diverse ways of seeing and perceiving treated in photography, different approaches that encourage a discourse about image and representation, reality and fiction. A qualitative selection of photographic works will be presented by the artists Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Peter Hebeisenand Christian Vogt. Galerie Christian Roellin will show works by Thomas Floerschutz, Ilkka Halso and Robert Lebeck.

In her photographs the New York-based artist Sonja Braas (*1968, Siegen) plays with the viewer's visual perception. A selection of works from her current series The Quiet of Dissolution will be on show, in which the elements or natural disasters, at times taking on their most extreme forms, are captured. Allusions of any kind as to the circumstances surrounding the incidents or the place of their occurrence are ommitted. Works by Braas are currently to be seen at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and in the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Balthasar Burkhard (*1944, Berne) counts among the great masters of international photo art. He achieved acclaim for his classic black-and-white shots in large format, a representative number of which are presented in The Best of Photography. His works tend to confuse, as they force the viewer into an interplay between inner and outer images. Before these pictures assume a definite form as photographs, however, they carry on an imaginary existence inside the artist's mind. Elementary topics such as mountains, the desert, the sea, animals, trees or the city are specifically sought out and fathomed with respect to their content and aesthetics.

European Battlefields, the title of the photographs by Peter Hebeisen (*1956, Berne) presented in this exhibition, is significant. Battlefields are associated with atrocities, war, death and casualties. No such thing is to be seen in the works of Hebeisen. He captures images of abandoned, well-balanced landscapes, formerly European theatres of war. The images are remote from what is widely considered to be war photography. The artist's aim is not to bring back to life the past, but to photographically document the concept of drama.

Christian Vogt (*1946, Basel) is the only artist in this show to attract notice to the human body. Three photographs are presented, - a nude, a semi-nude and an enlarged mouth - with the help of which the relation between reality and the photographic image is addressed. Simultaneously to the presentation at g27, the Fotostiftung Schweiz is highlighting the work of Christian Vogt in a one person show titled Today I' ve been you.

We look forward to welcoming you to g27 on 8 November at 11.00am. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information and images.

With kind regards,

Fabian & Claude Walter Simone Toellner

The Best of Photography - g27
In collaboration with Galerie ChristianRoellin

Künstler: Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Peter Hebeisen, Christian Vogt