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depth 2 mm glossy, frameless, 180 x 120 cm (External dimensions)
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A UNIVERSE TO ONESELF

With his masterpiece Blow-Up (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni cemented Vera Lehndorffā€™s status as fashion-world icon ā€œVeruschka.ā€ From the time of the legendary photos by Richard Avedon, shortly before the film was made, it was self-evident that the top model would be up to the role.

In Antonioniā€™s movie, swinging Londonā€™s fashion photographer David Hemmings attempts during a photo shoot to take possession of the womanā€™s thin, long body, which in its filigree, nearly fragile-seeming proportions always gave off the aura of inapproachability. Solely with the cameraā€™s lens is he able to snatch a moment of this womanā€™s mystery. Her distinctive elegance seems to elude any worldly estimate. Had Veruschka modeled for a sculptor, then presumably the emerging sculptures would not have looked unlike Giacomettiā€™s figures.

In the photographic series that Vera Lehndorff designed in collaboration with Holger TrĆ¼lzsch, the aesthetic figure Veruschka refuses to be a projection of beautyā€™s ideals, yet in these portraits she retains her completely individual aura. Diffused in bolts of energy, in bizarre particle streams, and in psychedelic plays of color that reflect London of the 1960s, Veruschka transcends her body and delves into a world that translates the glamour of an icon into a sensually experiential image.

Even if the forms into which Veruschka transforms cannot be grasped, they always bear the artistā€™s female touch. Her body constructs an in-between universe, one which plays by its very own set of rules. Here the artistā€™s aura meets the blackness of an endless nothing. If these photographs could emit sound, it would be the spherical tones of Pink Floyd. Even if body parts have been alienated into unrecognizability, for the viewer they always remain the eyeā€™s reference point to a world that lies outside of human experience. Never will a human be closer to not being from this world, come so close, as in these photographs. A privilege Hemmings could only dream of.

David GƤrtner



ON HOLGER TRƜLZSCH

The sculptor, photographer, and video artist Holger TrĆ¼lzsch undertakes large artistic projects, most often in multimedia, which always hinge on a desire for autonomy and a conceptual approach. This approach is committed to the concrete manifestation of ideas and the materialization of phenomena. His conceptual projects for the most part have to do with architecture and public space. They take up the subject of current political and social relationships and reveal the res publica as the absolute concern of his production.

The artistā€™s works show an excellent handling and mastery of space ā€“ the dynamics and tension between forms become visible. They appear in both static and shifting visions and are portrayed by their intellectual application of the mass, by relevant plays of transparency and reflection. The majority of his installations ā€“ whether permanent or temporarily, whether sculpture, painting, or photography ā€“ deal with light. TrĆ¼lzschā€™s signature can immediately be recognized in the collaboration with Vera Lehndorff, aka Veruschka, in the series ā€œSigns.ā€ In these photographs, the philosophical, analytical discourse is implemented with critique and irony in the two artistsā€™ unique artistic language.

BIOGRAPHY
John David Morley, One for the Road, Sunday Times, London, 19 October 1986
Death of Photography, Village Voice, 30 September 1986
Susan Sontag, Fragments of an Aesthetic of Melancholy, Art in America, September 1986
David Lurie, Persona Non Grata, Arts, December 1985
Sanford Kwinter, Art in America, July 1985
Gary Indiana, Ex-Model Found in Wall, Artforum, May 1985
Grace Glueck, Vera Lehndorff, Holger TrĆ¼lzsch: Oxydationen, New York Times, 12 April 1985
Imitation and Its Double, Village Voice, 9 April 1985
Edith Newhall, A Body of Work, New York Magazine, 8 April 1985
VITA
"Veruschka" Vera Lehndorff
1939born May 14, 1939 as Vera Lehndorff in Kƶnigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
Studied at the Technical School of Design, Hamburg, Germany
1966Film debut in Michelangelo Antonioniā€™s Blow-Up
1971Participation in the Alice Schwarzer-initiated media happening Wir haben abgetrieben!
Main role in the Italian feature film Veruschka by Franco Rubartelli
1983Collaboration on the documentary film Vom Zusehen beim Sterben
1984Leading role in Ulrike Ottingerā€™s The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press
2005Concept and script for TV documentary Veruschka ā€“ (m)ein inszenierter Kƶrper, directed by Paul Morrissey and Bernd Boehm
2007Cameo appearance in Martin Campbellā€™s Casino Royale
  
Holger TrĆ¼lzsch
1939born in Munich, Germany
1960-1964studied at Art Academy Munich, Germany
1967co-founder HSK Munich
1960-1968studied sociology and psychology in Munich, Germany
1969founded experimental music group "Popol Vuh"
1970TrĆ¼lzsch meets Vera Lehndorff. Parallel to his personal creative work, he begins an artistic cooperation with her: body painting, performance, film shorts, and photography
1973 moved to New York, USA
1983moved to Paris, France with further stays in the US and Germany
2002TrĆ¼lzsch and architect/artist Natascha Bindzus receive the first prize Concours du Val de Marne du Parc DĆ©partemental des Cormailles in Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Exhibitions
"Veruschka" Vera Lehndorff and Holger TrĆ¼lzsch
2007Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Ninfa Moderna, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, Germany
2003Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Oxydationen, Arcadia University Gallery/Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
1999Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Oxydations, Browne Gallagher Gallery, New York, USA
1989Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1987Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, USA
Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Boca Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
1983Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, La Photographie Creative, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
1982Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, MusĆ©e Nationale d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1981Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Galerie Centre Americaine, Paris, France
1979Lehndorff / TrĆ¼lzsch, Museum fĆ¼r Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
  
"Veruschka" Vera Lehndorff
2008Veruschka Self-Portraits, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, Germany
2007Don't cry baby - work!, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, Germany
2006Veruschka Self-Portraits, performance: Vera Lehndorff; photographs: Andreas Hubertus Ilse, Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2004Photo installation, video installation: Burning City, LE OPERE E I GIORNI-TRE, Padula, Italy
 
Holger TrĆ¼lzsch
2003Sous Le Sable, Le PĆ©trole ā€“ The hereo lies in you, Galerie MichĆØle Chomette, Paris, France
TrĆ¼lzsch / Bindzus, "FADING and it fades, fades, fades ...", Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany
2002TrĆ¼lzsch / Bindzus, "FADINGā€œ, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany
2000TrĆ¼lzsch / Bindzus, Terra Humana ā€“ Terrains Humains, Erschaffung in der Galerie Nei Licht, Dudelange, Luxemburg
1998Le Mont Des Oliviers ā€“ Die Welt der Oliven, Galerie MichĆØle Chomette, Paris, France / Mois de la Photographie, Paris, France
1993Le Champ Dynamique de la Tension, Galerie Zoumboulakis, Athens, Greece
Fire and Forget, CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine, France
Fire and Forget, Galerie MichĆØle Chomette, Paris, France
1991Verlichtungen ā€“ Onement,  Salle Saint Jean, town hall, Paris, France
Verlichtungen ā€“ Onement,  Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris, France
1990Nicolas Ledoux ā€“ MusĆ©e Carnavalet Collection, Paris, France and Architecture Center Zaragossa, Spain, then traveling exhibition in Spain
1989Le garage de Hegel, Parking Odeon, Paris, France
Le garage de Hegel, Galerie MichĆØle Chomette, Paris, France

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