highlike

tamara grcic

zugunruhe

tamara grcic  zugunruhe

source: re-title
Tamara Grcic is known for her serial photo works and video projections. By concentrating on a motif and its consistent repetition in the series, she sharpens the perception of the eye for -people, situations, colors, forms, and details. In our third solo show, Grcic’s photographic work, still, displays a new approach in her photography, in connection with an acoustic installation especially conceived for the gallery.

Still is Grcic’s first show to feature individual photographs of many different split-second moments. The point of view in this new series is broader; the images are more narrative. Scenes come from the periphery of the everyday. We see a gardener in the park, a girl reading at a table, a tiger in his enclosure, girls on the beach. Still lifes, such as a broom in the snow or a broken lamp on a wall, are visual triggers. Grcic presents us with incidental situations, with a view for details and contexts. They demand our deliberate attention, since it is only after prolonged observation that the attraction of the images, with their gentle tones and hidden moments, can be deciphered.

The thread running through the series is a voice, a sound, which loosely connects the individual photographs and turns them into a series, and which Grcic calls still. People are absorbed in their tasks; objects have not been used for a long time. The situations, people, animals, and things depicted are removed from the flow of movement in the real world. Like film stills, they are extracted from the inattentiveness of daily life. Time seems to stop, also in the filmic sense of still.

Sixteen photographs total comprise the series. For Grcic, they function like a building set, from which she takes individual photos and mounts them in sequence for the exhibition. The pictures enter into a relationship; the scenes combine to form stories, which, however, remain open-ended.The artist developed an acoustic installation to accompany the photographs. In vases of different size, color, volume, and texture are concealed metronomes, which beat in different rhythms. The fragility of the vases, their delicate placement on the floor of the gallery, demands viewers’ attention and guides their movement through the space. Yet another frequency supplements the sound of the photographs.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: raumsichtenorg
Born 1964 in Munich; lives in Frankfurt am Main.
Studied art history and cultural anthropology in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main, and fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Tamara Grcic has a broad concept of sculpture. The »field of tension between nature and culture« (René Block) plays a fundamental role in the processes of the artist. In her work – whether photographs, films or installations with sound – she calls upon the existential feelings of the spectator. She is interested in »intermediate states« (Grcic) that enable one to sense the possibilities of change. In 2005, for example, on an idyllic public square in Munich the artist set up a glasshouse painted with an opaque camouflage pattern; the sound of excited chirping birds could be heard from within, which triggered an almost alarmed feeling in the passers-by. For the 2009 Venice Biennale, she created a sound installation including voices, and using 17 bright red covered life rafts grouped together in the Arsenal (fig.).
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: kunsthochschule-mainzde
Geboren 1964 in München, 1983-86 Studium der Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien, 1986-88 Studium der Kulturanthropologie an der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, 1988-93 Hochschule der bildenden Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main. Lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt/Main.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: heyeventuk
Tamara Grcic (Mynih, 1964) është një artiste që jeton dhe vepron në Frankfurt Am Main, Gjermani. Që nga 1992, ajo mori pjesë në shumë ekspozita indviduale dhe grupore në Gjermani dhe jashtë saj: MMK2 Frankfurt, Joanneum Graz; 53. Biennale di Venezia; Fotohof, Salzburg; FRAC Bordeaux; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Kunsthalle Bern; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Kunsthalle St. Gallen; Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel; Bonner Kunstverein; Portikus Frankfurt; etc.