photography - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2016 - 68 Euro Cent

Dorothee Golz was born in 1960 in Mühlheim an der Ruhr in Germany. In 1986, she graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Plastiques in Strasbourg and studied ethnology and art history in Freiburg. Since 1988 she lives and works in Vienna. Photography and drawings as well as sculptural works are her most important artistic means of expression. Through her participation in the "documenta X" in 1997, where her sculpture "Hohlwelt" and drawings were exhibited, she gained international fame. Solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the US followed. In 2013 she was awarded the prize of the city of Vienna for fine arts, in the same year her extensive work was shown in a retrospective in the Tyrolean Provincial Gallery.   Since 2004, the artist has been dealing with her so-called "digital paintings". She borrowed portraits from her contextual and historical context and brought them into our time. The painted face is completely photographically recreated and integrated into a new, meticulously planned setting: clothing, accessories, space and body language come from the present and frame the "historical" facial features. Although the face is harmoniously inserted into the photograph, it irritates. Golz comments: "The fact that the face retains this temporal distance is extremely interesting. We bring in all our knowledge and our cultural memory. "The face of the" Turmhutfrau "from the year 2005 is taken from the painting" Portrait of Maria Baroncelli "by Hans Memling around 1470. In Golz's unmistakable imagery the complex psyche behind the face is revealed.