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Exhibition

Frank Mädler

11. Jun 16 — 4. Sep 16

Location
Leonhardi Museum Dresden
Grundstraße 26
01326 Dresden
AI generated: The image shows a wintry landscape with a snow-covered field, trees and a picket fence in the foreground. The atmosphere is calm and foggy."Koppel", 2010, archival pigment inject print | © Frank Mädler

Mädler is a household name on the international photography scene, but here in Germany the man from Leipzig with his poetic and conceptual visual language is still almost an insider tip. Perhaps this is because Mädler is less interested in the undisguised front side of reality than in what may lie behind it. There is a filter over the images he has been creating for around 20 years - not in the technical sense, but in the epistemological sense. As an offer to reflect on what photography is.

"In the retrospective, focal points become clear that always have to do with life circumstances that determine themes or approaches. For Frank Mädler, cities such as Leipzig, Madrid, Toronto or Cuenca could be mentioned, but ultimately these biographical localisations are irrelevant: Everything could also happen or have happened somewhere else. For him, it is much more about using the coincidences of being here or there, in the interplay of what he has found and what has developed from it."
- Dr Agnes Matthias -

Dr Agnes Matthias spoke at the opening on Friday, 10 June at 8 pm.

The artist was present at the opening.

The Leonhardi Museum gave an overview of Mädler's work with the first museum exhibition in Germany. Around 50 photographs from the last 20 years were on display.

The exhibition and catalogue were sponsored by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.

KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt einen Kunstgalerieraum mit mehreren Gemälden an den Wänden, die hauptsächlich Blumen darstellen. In der Mitte des Raumes steht ein einzelner gepolsterter Hocker auf einem Parkettboden.© Leonhardi-Museum / PR

Biography
Frank Mädler was born in Torgelow in 1963. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and completed his academic training there in 2000 as a master student of Astrid Klein after two one-year excursions to the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca. Several scholarships took him back to Spain and to the Villa Massimo in Rome. Mädler lives and works in Leipzig.

Catalogue

A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.

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