Mutating Medium / Mutující MédiumPhotography in Czech art 1990-2010 by Pavel Vančát

Mutating Medium / Mutující Médium - Photography in Czech art 1990-2010 Pavel Vančát Galerie Rudolfinum and Fotograf magazine czech / english 149 29 x 24 cm 1.0100 kg - 9788025491294 In stock €28.00 Add Items to Cart 1 Add to Cart Product Description The exhibition captures the metamorphosis of photography as artistic media in the dynamic environment of the past two decades influenced by sweeping political changes and technological development aimed at mass digitalization and the democratization of image media. Since the 1990’s, the use of photography in modern art has been fundamentally as an artistic medium, photography has been gradually liberated from the isolation given by its technicist professional essence. During the past two decades, we have been able to view the divergence from the modernistic vision of photography to post-conceptual formulated creation. In the field of themes and subjects, the emphasis now moves from the reflection (either interior or exterior) of facts to its more structured photography adopts the languages of poetry, sociology, psychology and mass media. The exhibition thereby captures the gradual metamorphoses and variations of from postmodern exaggerations through the conceptual approaches of the 1990’s up to the most modern works which investigate the essence of photographic media itself. Even from the view of other artistic approaches (painting, installation, performance), the exhibition implies the metamorphosis of the perception of photography as bearer of social and cultural content. The exhibition wil