Reflecting on Beate Gütschow's Work
Breaking down the artist's way of work, investigating the 'I' series.
Transferring landscape paintings which incorporates conditioned visual perceptions to photography, Beate Gütschow digitises anolog photographs by following principles of studio paintings inspired from the Baroque times to the 18th century.
“You only need two or three of these rules, and the photos look like paintings, because that is how we have been trained to perceive things,” she explains.
Challenging the norms of perception, she’s able to detach herself from conventional image schemes to create her own reality, portraying an attempt to describe the object’s conditions.
Approaching new interpretations of traditional pictorial representations, Beate abandons her natural and urban scenes and dabbles on a more staged and confined space. The interiors have nothing in common with the daylight-flooded interiors of Dutch painting. Reminding us of advertising agencies, laboratories or offices and even photo studios, the various contemporary locations which are functionalistic rooms which allows a variety of things appear to stand under careful scrutiny or, in the case of the photo studios, to be in the process of being turned into “images.” There is a pause, a short delay, before, one can imagine, the objects are rearranged again.
Using the aspect of flattening to make images, the two objects are viewed from overhead and depicted approximately life-size in the illuminated image.
Identified, the black covering of the automatic transmission and rod next to it, assuming, linked to an automotive background as well.
The meaning of their juxtaposition may not be clear at first glance, photographed against a wall of white tiles reinforced by the white flash from the front, the image is evidently attempting to describe the objects’ conditions.
The work’s title can be translated as “Are you ready?”
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