Beate Guetschow
The German artist Beate Gütschow (*1970) studied at HFBK – the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (1993–2000) and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway (1997). She teaches as a professor for Photography at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. She was awarded the Ars Viva Prize and received a residency grant for Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
Her work has been presented in renowned art institutions, including Kunsthalle at Lipsiusbau in Dresden, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Her works are represented in many private and public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Kunsthaus Zurich, SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the MMA – Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Beate Gütschow lives and works in Cologne and Berlin, Germany.
Link: www.beateguetschow.de
Beate Gütschow: HC#6, C-print, 115x153 cm, 2018, Courtesy: Barbara Gross Galerie, München; Produzentengalerie Hamburg; Sonnabend Gallery, New York. © Beate Gütschow, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
In her new group of works “HC“, Beate Gütschow employs a combination of several digital tools: using digital photography and photogrammetry she records existing motifs from the current architectural environment. These are then composed on the computer through the use of 3D programs (Cinema 4D) and digital image processing (Photoshop) to make a „photographic“ looking image with a coherent illusionary space. However, Gütschow replaces the usual and expected „photographically“ connoted central perspective by the „unnatural“ parallel perspective of the 3D program. Her title „HC“, which stands for „Hortus Conclusus” (enclosed garden), refers to the pictorial representation of gardens in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance
(immediately before the invention of the centrally-organised system of perspective). The historical quotation is used by Gütschow as a deliberate disruption of perception. The photographic habits of seeing and the associated (supposed) certainties are subjected to a sustained interrogation within the context of the new digital possibilities.
Text: Michael Reisch
Beate Gütschow: HC#4, C-Print,148x115cm, 2018
Courtesy: Barbara Gross Galerie, München; Produzentengalerie Hamburg; Sonnabend Gallery,
New York. © Beate Gütschow, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
Beate Gütschow: HC#5, C-print, 148x115 cm, 2018
Courtesy: Barbara Gross Galerie, München; Produzentengalerie Hamburg; Sonnabend Gallery,
New York. © Beate Gütschow, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
Beate Gütschow: HC#6, C-Print,148x115cm, 2018, Courtesy: Barbara Gross Galerie, München; Produzentengalerie Hamburg; Sonnabend Gallery, New York. © Beate Gütschow, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019