Pure Heaven © 2001 Iris Brosch
The exhibition Differing Views presented works by five fashion photographers
who had each in his or her own way been able to establish a successful career in the international world of fashion. The diversity
of the works on view provided a glimpse into the world of the widely divergent lifestyle magazines.
Artists
The young Austro-German photographer
Iris Brosch, who lives in New York, has published her works in international glamour magazines such as the
Italian edition of Vogue, in Harpers Bazaar, etc. In her works she focuses on depicting young women with a rigid kind of perfection.
Her latest works are videos where mythical female figures appear in auratic settings. Differing Views presented one of her
latest videos, through which she was moving ever closer to the visual arts.
The photo artist Sissi Farassat is represented here both as a photographer and as
the editor of Sioseh magazine. In the exhibition Differing Views she showd 17 issues of Sioseh magazine and two photographic
works.
The young photographer Bettina Komenda
represented a completely different approach. In works produced continuously over the past five years she focused on colourful
portraits of children. In this exhibition she presented her first book featuring pictures of children, which was published
by the Japanese publisher Composite at the end of 2001. Prints of some of the child portraits also were on view in the exhibition.
The star photographer Elfie Semotan showed
a series of six photographs that she produced for i-D magazine in 1999 together with the Austrian stylist Sabina Schreder.
Elfie Semotan does not consider herself a typical fashion photographer - the central features in her works are people
and moods, and fashion is but a complementary element.
In
her works, Maria Ziegelböck does not display an opulent style; neither does she illustrate the illusion created
by stylists and make-up artists. In depicting people she focuses instead on simplicity. In a series of six portraits that
she presented in this exhibition, her position was made clear in a remarkable manner.
© 2001 Maria Ziegelböck
from the series for View On Colour © 2001 Bettina Komenda
SHIOSHE 1-14 © Sissi Farassat
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Exhibitions
Opening
Thu 17 January 2002, 8 pm
Exhibition Dates
18 January -
2 March 2002
Location
Unit F büro für mode
Gumpendorferstrasse 10-12
1060
Vienna