C/O Berlin - Cathrin Schulz . Last Call
From December 3, 2008 to January 18, 2009 C/O Berlin presents the exhibition “Cathrin Schulz . Last Call” - Photographs of Berlin-Tempelhof.
Although its days as an airport finally ended four weeks ago, Berlin-Tempelhof Airport has attained mythic status, calling to memory the legendary Berlin Airlift, the Allied “Raisin Bombers,” and feeling of faraway places that seem strangely close by from this airport in the heart of the capital city. As one of the biggest buildings in the world, it is a monumental place of collective remembrance that oscillates between modernity and progress, war and destruction, hope and freedom.
Tempelhof is laden with memories, dreams, and plans for the future. Without the lens of its nebulous legends, this urban architectural ensemble appears monumental, calm, and sovereign. Cathrin Schulz powerfully evokes this calm clarity in her photographic series. Through the formal reduction and accentuation of particular colors in her photographs, she creates the possibility for an unobstructed gaze at this iconic airport.
And it is the aesthetic qualities of her subject matter that Cathrin Schulz places in the foreground. Using a reduced visual language, careful choice of motifs, and precise cropping of the image, she condenses singular moments in their own authenticity. The clarity is intensified further through digital manipulation. By heightening contrasts, colors, and saturations, Cathrin Schulz allows individual details and structures that would otherwise escape our attention to emerge in palpable relief. The objectivity, lack of distortion, and emptiness of human presence in her works reveal the photographer’s affinity to the tradition of the Becher School. The reserved, muted tonality creates the impression of standstill and timelessness—a blank screen onto which we project our own memories and emotions.
The photographs of Cathrin Schulz are being presented for the first time at C/O Berlin. The exhibition in the foyer of the Postfuhramt includes 15 photographs from the series “Berlin-Tempelhof.”
Cathrin Schulz . Last Call
Photographs of Berlin-Tempelhof
Exhibition December 3, 2008 to January 18, 2009
Opening Tuesday, December 2, 2008 . 7 pm
Opening hours daily . 11 am to 8 pm
Organizer C/O Berlin
Location C/O Berlin at the Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße / Tucholskystraße . 10117 Berlin
Contact Phone +49.30.28 09 19 25
. http://www.co-berlin.com
