EN PASSANT
Photographs by Manfred Paul

10.09.2015 till 18.12.2015

Opening: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 6-9 pm

Opening speach: Dr Catherine Nichols, 7pm

 

Concept: Marc Barbey and Antonio Panetta

Curated by Antonio Panetta

 

The exhibition shows women’s legs photographed by Manfred Paul between 1986 and 1990. This cycle was created “en passant”, passing by, and almost exclusively in Berlin. The legs present themselves in nylon or naked, standing or elegantly crossed, entirely visible or in graphically appearing details.
These works were never shown before. They will be completed with still life and portrait cycles of Paul, including photographs of Wolfram A. Scheffler and Sascha Anderson.
The exhibition is curated by Antonio Panetta, artistic director of Collection Regard.

Extracts of the essay by Hubertus von Amelunxen:

“The women’s legs are what make these images, their beauty and concupiscence. Manfred Paul’s art lies not in merely pursuing voyeurism and making an image of longing, lust or cupidity, but in maintaining a tender distance when looking, viewing.”

“The images have a manifest sensuality, it is there, quietly, unobtrusively, in the images, awakened like a silent longing, or as Kierkegaard puts it with reference to Mozart, the ‘pulse beat of longing’”.

“The format is determined by the women’s legs; spaces plummet, disappear, the legs remain.“