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Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer | Artefakte und Modelle

Mathematisches Modell Nr. 72, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 72, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 66, 2017, Archival pigment print, 64 x 90 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 66, 2017, Archival pigment print, 64 x 90 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 77, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 77, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 90, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 90, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 93, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 93, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 25, 2012, Archival pigment print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 25, 2012, Archival pigment print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Herakles, 2013, Archival pigment print, 61 x 42 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Herakles, 2013, Archival pigment print, 61 x 42 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 53, 2017, Archival pigment print, 154 x 102 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 53, 2017, Archival pigment print, 154 x 102 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 57, 2015, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 57, 2015, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 89, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 89, 2018, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Mathematisches Modell Nr. 65, 2017, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Mathematisches Modell Nr. 65, 2017, C-Print, 50 x 35 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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Verlorene Sammlung Nr. 1, 2015, Archival pigment print, 130 x 90 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
Verlorene Sammlung Nr. 1, 2015, Archival pigment print, 130 x 90 cm, Ed. of 5 + 2AP
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The series “Artefakte und Modelle ” by Lena Amuat und Zoë Meyer is a collection of objects that embody the human struggle for knowledge. Over twelve years in the making and numbering hundreds of images, the project inventories the models, artifacts, natural specimens and teaching objects that the two women have unearthed traveling to search through the archives and collections of European universities and natural history museums.

However, with information and provenance entirely exorcised from the titles of their images, we are left knowing almost nothing factual about each of the photographed items: not the collection they belong to or the place of that archive; nor when they date from, who made or found them or how they came to be collected; nor any explanation as to the ideas, theories and natural laws that each of the models apparently embodies. Instead, they are left to communicate through the power of their visual identity alone.

Each of the selected objects is treated to the artists’ mobile photo studio where they are posed in front of colored paper backdrops (sometimes assembled with other items, but most often standing alone), seductively lit and skilfully shot. Going against the surge of digital, the Swiss duo embraces analog and the “hand-made” – from dark-room printing to carefully prepared color backdrops and hand-painted frames that they build themselves.

Dutch art historian Flor Lincknes calls it “a series of enigmatic and decontextualized objects that are given a new life” and in her review of the work in the summer of 2022, she writes: “Elements from science, advertising, religion, art and nature are isolated and combined effortlessly in what could be described as encyclopedic cabinets of curiosities. In the work of Amuat and Meyer, the past and the present enter into a new relationship.”

Lena Amuat (*1977) & Zoë Meyer (*1975) live and work in Zurich and Berlin. They both graduated from the University of the Arts in Zurich and collaborate since 2008. The book to the series “Artefakte und Modelle” was published by About Books, Zürich in 2021.

Current

Michael Lange | Cold Mountain

CM 13726, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 13726, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 16815, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 16815, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 10520, 2016, 142 x 213 cm (also available in 95 x 140.3 cm, 66 x 99 cm & 34 x 45 cm, Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 10520, 2016, 142 x 213 cm (also available in 95 x 140.3 cm, 66 x 99 cm & 34 x 45 cm, Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 15694, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 15694, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 19603, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 19603, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 21789, 2018, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 21789, 2018, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 17155, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 17155, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 14992, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 14992, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 18395-18346 (Diptych), 2017, 2x 100 x 133.3 cm (also available in 2x 71.2 x 95 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 2x 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 18395-18346 (Diptych), 2017, 2x 100 x 133.3 cm (also available in 2x 71.2 x 95 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 2x 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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CM 16792, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
CM 16792, 2017, 150 x 200 cm (also available in 100 x 133.3 cm, 71.2 x 95 cm & 42 x 54 cm), Archival pigment print, Ed. of 2 + 1AP (4 + 2AP, 5 + 2 AP & 3 + 2AP)
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Over a period of six years, photographer Michael Lange embarked on extensive journeys to various regions of the French Alps. He created a collection of impressive, meditative landscape images, set between light and dark, silence and storm. On the occasion of the publication with Hartmann Books in 2021, Stefan Fischer wrote in Süddeutsche Zeitung:

“The heaviest and the lightest come together in the mountains. Here the massive, seemingly immovable rock, piled thousands of meters high, chapped and mighty, sometimes covered by additional snow loads weighing tons. And there, wisps of clouds, driven together by the wind and immediately blown apart again, without place and without support. (…) Lange’s photographs from the French Alps are extraordinary. Because they sound out the border region between the just visible and the invisible. Because they capture the moment when the first structures just emerge from the darkness of night or from the thicket of clouds – or, conversely, when a curtain is drawn and a last fleeting glimpse is possible of what will be completely hidden a second later.”

Michael Lange (*1953, Heidelberg, Germany) became known for meditative investigations of landscapes. The series “Wald” (Forest) was published in 2012 by Hatje Cantz and gave Michael Lange international recognition as an artist working in photography. Just as in the follow-up project “Fluss” (River), also published by Hatje Cantz in 2015, Lange is concerned with the search for stillness and an emotional relationship with nature. The publication of “Cold Mountain”, now available from Hartmann Books, concludes this trilogy of landscape projects. Michael Lange lives and works in Hamburg.

ROBERT MORAT GALERIE will host an artist talk with Michael Lange and Dr. Christiane Stahl, Director of Alfred Erhardt Stiftung, on Saturday, November 5, at 3pm!

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