Natalie Czech: Cigarette Ends Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

by Czech, Natalie; Löbke, Matthia

• ISBN13: 9783864423482
• ISBN10: 3864423481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-01-06
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

Summary

What exactly might this be about—"High Life" "Job"? With "Cool" "Kiss," on the other hand, ­options for connotations are boundless. And "fact" "true" "fact," who wouldn’t think of the ­biggest orange-maned tweet-machine there ever was. The relationship between text and visual form is the central theme of artist Natalie Czech, who was born in Neuss in 1976 and now lives in Berlin. In her various photographic work series, she explores the dynamic reciprocal effect of text and image. For her most recent seriesCigarette Ends, Natalie Czech has acquired ­numerous cigarette packets from the 1940s to the 1970s with such melodious names as "fact," "true," and "Kiss." She arranges the smoked cigarettes next to or one below the other on differently colored backgrounds and then takes photographs of them. The continuously visible names of the cigarettes on the banderoles combine to form minimalist poems. The small booklet assembles the existing works of the series Cigarette Ends to a good end.

Author Biography

Natalie Czech, born in 1976, lives and works in Berlin. Her photographic works resemble visual poems. With an approach characterized by critical reflection, Natalie Czech combines image, image object and text in her work and investigates the interweaving of the levels of representation. In her artistic practice, she collaborates with text authors to create a »visual-poetic language lab« and expand her own visual and linguistic systems of representation. Since summer 2020 she is professor of photography at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. Matthia Loebke, born 1963, artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others about Yoshitaka Amano, Markus Lüpertz, Olaf Metzel, Enoc Perez, Michael Schmidt, Michael Venezia, Silke Wagner. In Cologne she was an assistant to Donald Judd and gained her doctorate on Dan Flavin.