photography - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2011 - 70 Euro Cent

With the present special stamp a new attractive brand series with the title "Photographic art Austria" starts; In the course of the forthcoming issue programs, some very interesting examples of this interesting and hitherto philatelically hardly appreciated genre will be presented. It all starts with the artist Eva Schlegel, born in Hall in Tirol on March 8, 1960, who has often been able to attract great international attention with her works. Personal details: From 1979 to 1985 Eva Schlegel completed her studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the masterclass of Oswald Oberhuber, from 1997 to 2006 she taught as a university professor of art and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Currently, after taking part in 1995, she is Commissioner for the Austrian contribution to the 54th Venice Biennale, which takes place from the beginning of June to the end of November 2011. In 1996, Eva Schlegel was awarded the Vienna Prize for Fine Arts. The Vienna-based photo artist has been working for years with the blurring of the image as an experimental investigation of our perception. In her exhibition catalog "Stills at the Back of the Brain", well-known advertising and fashion photographer Hannes Schmid writes about Schlegel's broad oeuvre: "She creates numerous installations and installations using materials such as glass and mirrors, which she programmatically uses in her work with the space Art at the construction work, which can be seen as a constant examination of the architectural and immaterial space. Their textual work on glass, blurred to the point of illegibility, is the same as research on the boundaries of language and communication. Like spooky dream images, the photographically staged portraits of women seem like a meditation on the question of the relationship between physical presence and absence. "Keyword portraits of women: Eva Schlegel's picture" o.T. 014, 2003 ", the original size is 185 x 120 cm. It comes from a group of works in which the artist dealt with prototypical images of women over a period of ten years, whereby the focus of information is shifted by means of photographic reworking with the means of blurring. Subjective elements such as emotional expression, facial features and details of clothing are reduced to essential information, while painterly elements and lighting situations are emphasized and reinforced through this process.