© Franziska Strauss
Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art Berlin Fasanenstraße 37 10719 Berlin Allemagne
Exactly two years ago, we accepted the young photo-artist Franziska Strauss as a new artist represented by our gallery. Her work centers on the topic of dance as displayed in her first solo-exhibition Reckoner/I killed my dinner with karate in March/April 2011. Barely two months later, Franziska Strauss was honored with Germany's most important distinction for a young photo-artist, the 2011 Reinhart-Wolf-Award – precisely for the two series of photo-works shown in our exhibition.
By nature, dance is the most physical and thus the most direct and perhaps most intimate of all art forms. Franziska Strauss draws abstract body images that can hardly be surpassed in terms of sensual vibrancy, which reveal the very core of dance: the pulse of life, the fear of failing, the greed and the sense of being driven (which brings to mind Pina Bausch's "Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost"). These are perfectly composed photographs whose inner eroticism and external aestheticism are in rare harmony. Franziska Strauss shows what dance feels like.
We are very happy to announce Vert, the second solo-exhibition of the artist. On the website of the gallery you may already get a first overview of the new works – again brilliant – 19 single images and the two triptychs that we will present.
© Franziska Strauss
© Franziska Strauss
More information on www.berlin-contemporary-art.com/franziska_strauss
Photos et vignette © Franziska Strauss