From the ancient mural to the baroque still life to contemporary photography: flowers are one of the most popular motifs in art history. For 25 years, Zurich photographer Halm Schudel has been working on the traditional subject.
Anna Halm Schudel celebrates the luminous splendour of colours and the variety of shapes and thus the seduction of flowers. Equally passionately, the photographer follows the process of fading and wilting, shooting dry or underwater bouquets.
Blossom combines decorative splendour with a memento mori.
Anna Halm Schudel loves flowers. But flowers are not just flowers. The pictures of Anna Halm Schudel make the flowers speak. They reveal themselves to us, show themselves from all sides and they make no secret of their aging process. How often do we carelessly pass a bouquet of flowers. We may perceive the splendor of colour in an angle of the eye, but seconds later the impression has already faded. This is where Anna Halm Schudel's photographs begin. "Take your time. Look at me," the flowers that the photographer immortalized in this work would like to tell us.
Portraits of the flowers are not simply created, but Anna Halm Schudel gives us with her sophisticated technique an insight into a world of flowers that only bees and insects otherwise know. A magnificent nature is revealed to us – a macro-world that we know in theory, but which we have never seen in this beauty and perfection. The aging process and the withering is also the subject of Anna Halm Schudel's photographs. They show us how beautiful flowers can look if we had disposed of them a long time ago. This process is accompanied by a subtle colour scheme: while the images of fresh flowers with a high saturation of colour work on us, delicate, grey-pasted tones underline their decay, thus emphasizing the whole drama.
Opening hours: Wed. - Fri., 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sat 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and by appointment: 0177 3202913
Virtual gallery tour: view on you tube: https://youtu.be/TeDXzGxOuOs
In addition to the original works, the book "Blossom" awarded with the silver medal of the German Photo Book Prize 2020 (48 €) and two posters in 80 x 60 cm from an edition of 90 Ex. (red tulip in vase in front of red and Christmas roses in soap bubble, 20 €) are also offered.
The exhibition is supported by the Kunstfonds Foundation and NeuStartKultur.
