Stephan Kaluza & Dieter Nuhr
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Cover
Author(s)

Beate Reifenscheid, Thomas Hirsch

Design

Dieter Thiel

Size

22 x 27,5 cm

Pages

80 / 80

Illustrations

61 / 84

Cover

Two hardcovers in belly band

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-947563-86-9

Landscapes in a Dialogue between Painting and Photography

At first glance, Stephan Kaluza’s (b. 1964, Bad Iburg; lives and works in Düsseldorf) photorealist paintings might be still lifes, portraits of pristine nature. Yet they actually show battlefields and other scenes of past horrors. The idyll in his pictures positively appeals to our vigilance to resist the impression of profound peace. The same ambiguity lies at the heart of the photographs of Dieter Nuhr (b. 1960, Wesel; lives and works in Ratingen). Nuhr, who is also widely known as a comedian, has contributed pictures that are carefully focused renditions of seemingly serendipitous discoveries from his travels in Nepal, Bolivia, India, and Sudan. In their timelessness, Nuhr’s photographs are akin to the locales in Kaluza’s works, which, disburdened of the heavy weight of their histories, reemerge as straightforward natural landscapes. The lavishly illustrated two-volume edition presents the fruits of a collaboration between two artists united by their shared preoccupation with the dialectic of ephemerality and permanence.

Studio visit with Christiane Hoffmans (Die Welt) at Stephan Kaluza


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At first glance, Stephan Kaluza’s (b. 1964, Bad Iburg; lives and works in Düsseldorf) photorealist paintings might be still lifes, portraits of pristine nature. Yet they actually show battlefields and other scenes of past horrors. The idyll in his pictures positively appeals to our vigilance to resist the impression of profound peace. The same ambiguity lies at the heart of the photographs of Dieter Nuhr (b. 1960, Wesel; lives and works in Ratingen). Nuhr, who is also widely known as a comedian, has contributed pictures that are carefully focused renditions of seemingly serendipitous discoveries from his travels in Nepal, Bolivia, India, and Sudan. In their timelessness, Nuhr’s photographs are akin to the locales in Kaluza’s works, which, disburdened of the heavy weight of their histories, reemerge as straightforward natural landscapes. The lavishly illustrated two-volume edition presents the fruits of a collaboration between two artists united by their shared preoccupation with the dialectic of ephemerality and permanence.

Additional information

Cover
Author(s)

Beate Reifenscheid, Thomas Hirsch

Design

Dieter Thiel

Size

22 x 27,5 cm

Pages

80 / 80

Illustrations

61 / 84

Cover

Two hardcovers in belly band

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-947563-86-9

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