Exhibition
Manfred Paul - Pictures are saved time
2 Oct 2020 – 31 Oct 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- Potsdamer Strasse 63
- Berlin
Zehlendorf - 10785
- Germany
Travel Information
- S-Bahn: Hauptbahnhof
About
"Pictures are time left behind," says Manfred Paul, who today can look back on a comprehensive photographic oeuvre that has been created over the past five decades.
The exhibition shows his intimate, partly mask-like portraits from the series Jutta Deutschland (1981–1984) and Steffi Scherzer (1997–2001). They allow a glimpse behind the scenes of the Berlin operas during the 1980s and 1990s and tell vividly about above-average physical performance, emaciation and pride.
These introspective portraits of two prima ballerinas, removed from their presence, flanked by motifs of withering flowers from the group of works still - Leben (1993–2008), illustrate Paul's view of the dialectical nature of photography. The fleeting moment is withdrawn from its transience by means of a balanced interplay of artistically motivated authorship and simultaneous mastery of the photographic medium and captured in the image.