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 Annelies Štrba (b. 1947), Tschernobyl [Chernobyl], 1996, Photograph behind glass, edition of six, 125 x 185 cm |
 [...] Portrait The Ricola Collection also possesses works by Rut Himmelsbach (b. 1950) and Annelies Štrba (b. 1947), both of whom use photography for very different ends, their work in other media such as painting, sculpture and film having led to an interest in the genres of portraiture and still life. Their exploration of themes such as the public and the private, the other and the self, and historical ruptures has resulted in some remarkably haunting, contemporary tableaus, including Linda with Teddy Bear (1981/91), Sonja with Mirror and Chernobyl (1991) by Štrba and DU DA (2004) by Himmelsbach. The famous portrait Doris (1989) by Franz Gertsch (b. 1930), by contrast, belongs to the category of photorealism. Monumental in format, it is a woodcut made after a photograph and printed in blue ink on Japan paper. Gertsch became famous for his photorealistic paintings of the 1970s, including one of Patti Smith, the American writer and “godmother of punk”. Among the other artists in the collection who use photography as a model or a starting point is Tehran-born Shirana Shahbazi (b. 1974), who now lives in Zurich. Her three-part photographic portrait, Untitled (2001), for example, is based on one of her own photographs, but was painted onto cotton not by the artist herself, but by a Tehran poster painter, thus giving rise to questions of originality, authenticity and authorship. Shahbazi’s engagement with the multiple possibilities opened up by photography is typical of artists of her generation. [...] |
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