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Andreas Magdanz:
"Nobody can claim to have understood something until they have photographed it", Emile Zola, 1920
Anyone can take pictures. After all, it can be learned. Photographic art, on the other hand, pursues ideas, conveys content and condenses knowledge beyond the realm of craftsmanship.
The photographic artist Andreas Magdanz develops his photographic work complexes from the interaction between the medium of photography and the tension-charged special places as motifs.
Numerous publications, including the huge underground nuclear bunker Dienststelle Marienthal abandoned by the German government, the homage to Marceline Loridan-Ivens Auschwitz-Birkenau, and the villages and areas doomed to ruin by the brown coal mining of Garzweiler, are places with a terrifying history or a dubious future, and are thus preferred objects for his documentary and artistic photography. In 2006 he finished a photographic documentation about the foreign intelligence service BND-location Pullach and in 2009/10 he presented his work about Vogelsang in several exhibitions, which has also been published as a book in printed and digital form.
In 2010/11 he spent five months photographing the Stuttgart Stammheim prison; a first exhibition followed at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (17 Nov. 2012 to 03 March 2013), the book publication "Stammheim" in December 2012.
See also publications under the publishing label of Andreas Magdanz- MagBooks.
Last published: Hans and Grete, Pictures of the RAF, 1976-77
The work is characterised by a high degree of conceptualism, which is expressed in cycles of pictures.
Andreas Magdanz has always tried to change the formal approach in terms of technique, material, composition and expression in order to find a new visual language.
The result is often a bundle of photographs that, depending on the object photographed, thematise different procedures and formulate completely different forms of expression according to the subject.
In terms of teaching, this means that it is not one style that is important, but the communication of the diversity of photographic forms of expression.
A combination of lectures on contemporary artists/photographers and an introduction to technical basics, the partial connection to ongoing projects, associated excursions, allow for independent, free work and the elaboration of an own artistic position within given time frames.
