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light traps - DAHLHAUSEN

Light as and color as light: Christoph Dahlhausen's artistic research revolves around the revalation and perception of light and color as mutually conditioning and manifesting phenomena. His works evolve in a field of tension beween analysis and intuition, objectivity and sujectivity, science and non science. Claudia Schmückli, MOMA, NY
Dahlhausen positions himself within a tradition of exemplary artists who sought and found freedom in abstraction includin Kasimir Melevich, Josef Albers, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Ryman, Yves Klein as well as Blinky Palermo. Form and color were freed from their representative functions and imbued with revolutionary ideas and spritual energy. The technique of photography liberates color from its traditional material and formal conditions, diesembodies and delimits it. Claudia Schmückli, MOMA, NY



on the first non-scientific proof of light
photography, 20 x 120 cm, 2000
The revelatory interest in the causality and effect of light and its manifestation through color that is at the basis of Dahlhausen's thinking eventually relates his work closer to painting than to photography. The artist indeed uses the photographic technique to create 'painterly' picutres and thus evokes the tradition of modernism and its quest for renewal of painting that was sought in the liberation of its means. Claudia Schmückli, MOMA, NY
on the forth non-scientific proof of light
photography, 50 x 300 cm, 2000
Bardos II,14 1995
photography
70 x 50 cm, 1995
removal of the color
photography
25 x 20 cm, 2001
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