Photo Exhibition:
"Canudos - a war at the end of the world"
by Markus Kirchgessner
Introduction: Dr. Jochen Dietrich, artist and art educator
(Siegen)
The photographer Markus Kirchgessner searched for traces: He travelled into the dry area around Sertão because the classic of Euclides da Cunha "Krieg im Sertão" ("War in Sertão"), a journalistic eyewitness report about the extinction of an orthodox group at the beginning of the 19th century, animated him to deal with this issue. At this place he traced the report of Cunha and created an impressive photo spread which tells insightful stories. Visitors will gain detailed insight into the barren area and people fighting for their existence in the inhospitable landscapes. This exhibition provides an extraordinary combination of literature and photography.
The black-and-white pictures will invite visitors to deal with them in an intense way. After having read the classic of Cunha there can be constituted a lot of allusions to his opus.
Further information about Markus Kirchgessner can be found on the internet:
www.markus-kirchgessner.de
Location:
HELIOS-Rehazentrum Baumrainklinik, Lerchenweg 8
Tuesday, 10th of September 2013
Beginning:
7 pm
Admission is free.
The exhibition takes place until 4th of October 2013.
Markus Kirchgessner
Markus Kirchgessner was born 1963 in Wiesloch near Heidelberg. After his German and philosophy studies in Freiburg he enrolled in the FH Darmstadt. After he has ended up his studies in communication design he works for different magazines, agencies and publishing houses in Germany and abroad. On the one hand his work aims on culinary photo projects, on the other hand it aims on reports of his trips which took him to highly diverse areas of the world. His photography is distinguished by seeming timeless phenomenons of everyday life.
Dr. Jochen Dietrich
1965 born in Siegen
Studies (Art, German, Comparative education) in Münster, Siegen, Aveiro and Lissabon; First and second state examination
1994 - 1999 Teaching assignments for Photography and workshops at the universities in Siegen, Gießen, UFRGS Porto Alegre and PUC Rio de Janeiro
2000 Doctorate at the Universität of Siegen
2001 - 2002
Buildup/coordination of the museum educational service of the Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Leiria (Portugal)
2001 - 2003
Professorship (ambassador) for history and aesthetics of photography and for practical photography at the educational university of Coimbra (Portugal)
2003 - 2007 Teacher at the Wilhelm-Remy-Gymnasium, Bendorf
since 2007 Teacher at the Gymnasium Stift Keppel, Hilchenbach
Numerous exhibitions and shared exhibitions in Germany and abroad; Publications dealing with photography in art and art education; translations of texts dealing with science of art and history.
Member of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Siegerländer Künstlerinnen und Künstler" and the "Deutsch-Portugiesischen Gesellschaft".
HELIOS Rehazentrum Bad Berleburg
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