Exhibition “positive-negative”

Initiated by Baustelle Schaustelle e.V. at their recently opened space on Brehmstraße 41, Düsseldorf.
This exhibition is part of the Bauschau Fenster series.
Visible through the shop window (04/05/2020 to 05/05/2020) and my oncoming personal tour.

1. „Rodin-Relief“, 2017, photography on plaster, 35 x 35 x 10 cm
2. „Orthostat“, 2018, photography on plaster, 38 x 47,5 x 18 cm
3. „Grave fragment“, 2018, photography on plaster, 34 x 39,5 x 20 cm
4. „Moonlight“, 2018, photography on plaster, 27 x 31 x 15,5 cm
5. „Last year in Marienbad“, 2012, photography on plaster, 35 x 33 x 18,5 cm
6. „Moment out of Sand“, 2017, photography on plaster, 34,5 x 35 x 20,5 cm
7. „Supported View“, 2016, photography on plaster, 28,5 x 40 x 3,5 cm
8. „ Zeus“, 2012, photography on plaster, 62 x 50 x 31 cm

POSITIVE/NEGATIVE
“Positive” and “negative” are basic terms of both sculpture and photography and the starting point for Johannes Döring’s artistic question. In his approach, he turns the photographic negative into the mental mold of plastic. In order to make this hypothesis physical, analogue photography and plaster relief merge into one intellectual and spatial entity in his works. His investigations focus on fragmentary artifacts, conditions of cultural production and representation in private, institutional and film spaces.
Anke Volkmer
Art historian M.A.