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Dunja Evers Opening: Friday, November 3, 2006, 7pm In her second solo exhibition in the KUTTNER SIEBERT Gallery, Duesseldorf artist Dunja Evers exhibits new photographic works depicting motifs from boxing matches. The motif as well as the manner of its artistic alienation portray an emotional intensity. Initially, the almost luminous red surfaces of the photographs trigger in the observer physiological reactions, in the sense of a kind of intense agitation. The actual content of the images, the subject, captivates as well as repels. In the works of Dunja Evers, the contours of the figures dissolve and, in some pictures, the opponents fuse into one entity. The abstraction of what is represented is the result of a process which is quite typical for the artist. Dunja Evers photographs, using long exposure times, image sequences of projected super 8 films, the result being that several individual film images are superimposed, with the traces of their movement, on one photograph. The magenta tone of the photographic works is the result of the aging process of the original film material when the chromogenic process gradually changes due to chemical instability. An immediate recognition of the figures is almost impossible but what is important is not so much the reference to the actual form of the motif but, much more, the conveyance of an associative and emotional subjective mood. Works by Dunja Evers can be seen until
22th December 2006 in the exhibition "Out of the Camera - Analoge
Fotografie im Digitalen Zeitalter" (Out of the Camera - Analogue
Photography in the Digital Age) in the Kunstverein Bielefeld and
in "Bewegung im Quadrat - Das Quadrat in Malerei, Kinetischer
Kunst und Animation" (Movement in the Square – the Square
in Painting, Kinetic Art and Animation) on show in the Museum Ritter.
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