For the first time the German photographer is going to personally introduce her works in Australia
Emerging German artist Andrea Grützner will have a solo show at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Melbourne. Grützner is showing two of her most recent photographic series in an exhibition at the Fitzroy gallery between the 9th of June und the 23rd of July 2017. She will attend the opening night at the 8th of June to personally introduce her works and further on stay in Melbourne for an artist talk on Saturday 10th of June, midday.
Andrea Grützner lives and works in Berlin. Whilst taking photography as a starting point, the young artist seems to shift between the mediums of photography, painting and collage. She focusses mainly on the perception of spaces, historical structures and visual irritation. She wants to show the familiar as simultaneously unfamiliar.
CCP will be showing Grützner’s series Erbgericht and Tanztee. The photographs of the series Erbgericht were taken in a guesthouse of the same name in Saxony/Germany. This traditional venue is the backdrop for childhood memories as well as a reminder of the past. The different rooms bloom in different hues achieved by coloured flashlights. Therefore every photograph freshly explores the architecture of the old guesthouse, creates curious abstractions and contradictions of three dimensionality.
In contrast to Erbgericht, Tanztee does not focus on the architecture of the building but rather on the people inhabiting it. Tanztee documents the local custom of regularly meeting up for tea and dancing. Grützner’s images show the embracement elderly ladies while dancing. The colours and patterns of their clothes as well as their skin and jewelry are an endearing and at the same time an intriguing mirror of time and community life.
