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"L' Amore" Hans-Peter Feldmann The only established fact about the six photographs in concept artist Hans-Peter Feldmann’s series “L’ Amore” is that he found them. However, one deems it possible to visualize, on the basis of photographic conventions, the circumstances in which the photographs have been taken. Feldmann chose the title “L’ Amore”, which is as interpreting as much as it is romanticizing. In contrast to the clichéd tourism and advertising industry images of “Amore”, Feldmann’s “L’ Amore” is subjected to a numerical principle – the woman three times, the man three times, each once dressed, twice naked. This strictness imparts the character of a study to the series. It also points to the combination of commonplace and intimacy. Posing at a foreign place in front of a bed of flowers is among the commonest subjects. The pictures taken in the hotel room, on the other hand, appear to be unique just because of their unspectacular character and their visual plainness. Since the depicted persons seem to mostly refrain from self-dramatization, the pictures convey an impression of privacy. Thus, Feldmann demonstrates with these images how quickly seemingly private moments may become public. They are not suitable material for the yellow press, though, but depict a private scene between two persons with different skin colours – a relationship which is still being frowned upon by many. Solely through the selection and its exhibition, Feldmann’s series of images thus becomes a political statement. Most important for him is which information is being conveyed by the pictures themselves, and the circumstances in which pictures are taken, publicized and perceived – in a nutshell, their everyday use. One of this uses is viewing the images in exhibitions, a place which visitors enter with preconceived personal imaginations. Artist, born 1941, lives and works in Düsseldorf. |
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