Detlef Orlopp. Everywhere our features shine. überall splittern unsre Gesichtzüge.
Snoeck. Matthia Löbke.| N° d'inventaire | 30977 |
| Format | 32 X 24 |
| Détails | 48 p with 31 Abbildungen in Duplex, stapled booklet. |
| Publication | Cologne, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9783864424342 |
Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein Heilbronn, 24/2 – 5/5/2024.
text in German and English.
Detlef Orlopp (*1937) began his apprenticeship as a photographer in 1955 and today, 70 years later, the artist has a brilliant body of work behind him. Until 1973, he was also a professor at the Krefeld School of Applied Arts (Werkkunstschule). In 2015, the Folkwang Museum in Essen purchased a significant part of his archive. Devoted entirely to analog black and white photography, the artist "paints" with light, structure, line, and shading in the thematic field of landscapes and portraits. He selects details from the earth's surface, concealing their material origins and reducing the immensity to the perspective of the depth of the surface. The insufficient comparison of sizes gives rise to a new order of imagery, which the degree of abstraction liberates at the level of forms. Detlef Orlopp's landscape details are anchored neither in time nor in space; they are abstractions converted into structural image elements. They anchor the artist in 20th-century modern art. Wol's tachisme, the all-over structure of Jackson Pollock's drippings, and the gestures of Hans Hartung, whose work he notably saw at Documenta 2, prescribed the line and structure of his photographic images, which often have the effect of brushstrokes. The large-format booklet "Everywhere our lines burst" (Überall splittern unsere Gesichtszüge), published on the occasion of the exhibition, shows works from the glacier series for the first time.
Exhibition catalog. Kunstverein Heilbronn, 24/2 – 5/5/2024.
text in German and English.
Detlef Orlopp (*1937) began his apprenticeship as a photographer in 1955 and today, 70 years later, the artist has a brilliant body of work behind him. Until 1973, he was also a professor at the Krefeld School of Applied Arts (Werkkunstschule). In 2015, the Folkwang Museum in Essen purchased a significant part of his archive. Devoted entirely to analog black and white photography, the artist "paints" with light, structure, line, and shading in the thematic field of landscapes and portraits. He selects details from the earth's surface, concealing their material origins and reducing the immensity to the perspective of the depth of the surface. The insufficient comparison of sizes gives rise to a new order of imagery, which the degree of abstraction liberates at the level of forms. Detlef Orlopp's landscape details are anchored neither in time nor in space; they are abstractions converted into structural image elements. They anchor the artist in 20th-century modern art. Wol's tachisme, the all-over structure of Jackson Pollock's drippings, and the gestures of Hans Hartung, whose work he notably saw at Documenta 2, prescribed the line and structure of his photographic images, which often have the effect of brushstrokes. The large-format booklet "Everywhere our lines burst" (Überall splittern unsere Gesichtszüge), published on the occasion of the exhibition, shows works from the glacier series for the first time.