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Anna Halm Schudel
“Meaningless, nameless places that are given significance for a moment fascinate me.” If you look at the world from this perspective, there are endless numbers of “non-places” that reveal their inner beauty only to those who possess the eye and the alert thoughtfulness. Swiss photographer Anna Halm Schudel (*1945) has been… Read more
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Background Information about Anna Halm Schudel
Introduction
“Meaningless, nameless places that are given significance for a moment fascinate me.” If you look at the world from this perspective, there are endless numbers of “non-places” that reveal their inner beauty only to those who possess the eye and the alert thoughtfulness. Swiss photographer Anna Halm Schudel (*1945) has been photographing one project for years that actually has neither beginning nor end. She started out on her “never-ending journey” a trip through the seemingly inconspicuous, the fleeting, everything that whooshes by on her car drives that she captures with her camera. A building as a fleck of color, a copse of trees as if the landscape were marked with creatures, a guard rail on the side of the road: motifs whose banality becomes pure emotion through Halm Schudel’s eye, becoming moving landscape pictures per se, settled between figurative painting and classical landscape photography.
“Paradoxically it is exactly in this blurriness that clarity emerges; metamorphoses also occurring that testify to the relationship between nature and things of culture.”
Michael Pfister in the foreword to the book “The never-Ending Journey”
Mosaic
Every person has multiple facets that combined determine his or her personality. Thinking about these internal images has recently inspired the Swiss photographic artist Anna Halm Schudel to create unusual portraits.
For these portraits, she set her sights on today’s and yesterday’s stars and celebrities in a highly original way. In her large-format photographic art, Schudel erects fascinating monuments to figures of particular charisma – Scarlet Johannsson, Keira Knightly, Barack Obama, and Marilyn Monroe.
All these portraits seem to eschew exact understanding at first glance. The déjà-vu of the faces disseminated daily in the media dissolves into a completely unknown quality. Indeed, a closer look reveals the great surprise lurking in the conspicuously large pixilation: the artist creates a mosaic-like image of thousands upon thousands of smaller portraits she culls from the World Wide Web. All these universally accessible digital images and biographical traces gave Schudel the idea to consolidate the unmanageable flood of visual information in new aesthetic realities. The photo artist reworks the digital portraits of famous people on the computer screen in a complex process. She generally chooses only one section out of every image. While creating the montage she is careful to match the formats and tones so that the reworked picture elements assemble like puzzle pieces to form a new portrait.
The particular allure of these works comes from the ambivalence between nearness and distance, close- and far-range effects. Each of the tiny elements measures only one square centimeter. Were it possible with the naked eye, you might even recognize the artist’s face in a small fraction of the pieces. Anna Halm Schudel thus leaves her own kind of fingerprint on each work in the mosaic series. The artist’s convergence with – if not penetration of – the interior image of a person in fact quite distant from her is nowhere more concretely evident than in these small details.
Almut Andreae
“Paradoxically it is exactly in this blurriness that clarity emerges; metamorphoses also occurring that testify to the relationship between nature and things of culture.”
Michael Pfister in the foreword to the book “The never-Ending Journey”
Mosaic
Every person has multiple facets that combined determine his or her personality. Thinking about these internal images has recently inspired the Swiss photographic artist Anna Halm Schudel to create unusual portraits.
For these portraits, she set her sights on today’s and yesterday’s stars and celebrities in a highly original way. In her large-format photographic art, Schudel erects fascinating monuments to figures of particular charisma – Scarlet Johannsson, Keira Knightly, Barack Obama, and Marilyn Monroe.
All these portraits seem to eschew exact understanding at first glance. The déjà-vu of the faces disseminated daily in the media dissolves into a completely unknown quality. Indeed, a closer look reveals the great surprise lurking in the conspicuously large pixilation: the artist creates a mosaic-like image of thousands upon thousands of smaller portraits she culls from the World Wide Web. All these universally accessible digital images and biographical traces gave Schudel the idea to consolidate the unmanageable flood of visual information in new aesthetic realities. The photo artist reworks the digital portraits of famous people on the computer screen in a complex process. She generally chooses only one section out of every image. While creating the montage she is careful to match the formats and tones so that the reworked picture elements assemble like puzzle pieces to form a new portrait.
The particular allure of these works comes from the ambivalence between nearness and distance, close- and far-range effects. Each of the tiny elements measures only one square centimeter. Were it possible with the naked eye, you might even recognize the artist’s face in a small fraction of the pieces. Anna Halm Schudel thus leaves her own kind of fingerprint on each work in the mosaic series. The artist’s convergence with – if not penetration of – the interior image of a person in fact quite distant from her is nowhere more concretely evident than in these small details.
Almut Andreae
Bio
| 1945 | Born in Bern |
| 1964 | Diploma from the Secondary School for Girls, Basel |
| 1964 - 67 | School of Applied Arts Vevey, Department of Photography |
| 1967 | 2nd Prize, Children’s Book Exhibition, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich |
| 1968 | College of Art and Design, Birmingham, England |
| Prize for photographs of harbor in Basel | |
| “Grosser Europhot” photography prize for fashion | |
| 1968 - 73 | Assistant to René Groebli in Zurich |
| Introduced to Peter Schudel | |
| 1971 | Marriage to Peter Schudel |
| 1973 | Opening of own photo studio in Zurich |
Exhibitions
| 2007 | Group exhibition, Historisches Museum Schloss, Nyon |
| Exhibition, Historisches Museum, Baden | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| 2006 | Exhibition, Galerie zum Schlüssel, Horgen |
| Exhibition, Fotoforum, Innsbruck | |
| Exhibition, Fotoforum, Bozen | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Group exhibition, Gemeindehaus Horgen | |
| Group exhibition, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel | |
| 2005 | Exhibition, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| 2004 | Exhibition, in focus Burkhard Arnold, Cologne |
| Exhibition, Galerie Im Ziegelgarten, Monika Wertheimer, Oberwil | |
| Exhibition, Triennale Contemporary Art Oberschwaben, Weingarten | |
| Exhibition, Galerie de Santos Houston, Texas | |
| Exhibition, Festival Foto & Photo, Milan | |
| Group exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| 2003 | Group exhibition, in focus Burkhard Arnold, Cologne |
| Exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg | |
| Exhibition, HUG Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Group exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston | |
| Group exhibition, Foto-und Kameramuseum, Leipzig | |
| Exhibition, Gemeindehaus Horgen | |
| Group exhibition, Villa Dutoit, Geneva | |
| Commission public art, Schinzenhof, Horgen | |
| Group exhibition, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel | |
| 2002 | Exhibition, Galerie Im Ziegelgarten Oberwil |
| Exhibition, Photoforum Pasqu‘Art, Biel | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Exhibition, Galerie Maurer, Munich | |
| Exhibition, Channel Galleries, Neuss, Deutschland | |
| Exhibition, Hotel Seehof, Zurich | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| 2001 | |
| Exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Exhibition, Nikon Image House, Küsnacht, Zürich | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Tigerhof, St. Gallen | |
| Group exhibition, Interartes im Nikon Image House, Küsnacht, Switzerland | |
| Group exhibition, Photoforum Pasqu‘art, Biel | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| 2000 | Exhibition, in focus, Cologne |
| Exhibition, Hotel Seehof, Zurich | |
| Exhibition, Kulturzentrum Villa Seerose, Horgen, Switzerland | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Group exhibition, Museum fur Post und Kommunikation, Hamburg | |
| Group exhibition, Nikon Image House, Zurich | |
| Group exhibition, "Kunst im Speicher," Wust, Germany | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Group exhibition, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel | |
| 1999 | Group exhibition, Galerie Incontro, Zurich |
| Group exhibition, Schloss Nyon | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| 1998 | Exhibition, in focus, Cologne |
| Exhibition, Galerie Woerdehoff, Paris | |
| Group exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Group exhibition, Schloss Nyon | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Exhibition, Festival Focales in Dünkirchen, France | |
| 1997 | Exhibition, Altstadt-Halle, Zug |
| Exhibition, Alcatel-Galerie, Zurich | |
| Exhibition, Galerie Focale, Nyon | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles | |
| Exhibition, Schloss Nyon | |
| Exhibition, Photoforum Feldegg, Zurich | |
| 1996 | Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles |
| Exhibtion, Alcatel-Galerie, Wädenswil-Au | |
| 1995 | Exhibition, Galerie Leuenberger, Solothurn |
| Exhibition, Galerie Wolfbach, Zurich | |
| Two exhibitions, in focus, Cologne | |
| Exhibition, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy | |
| Exhibition, Arc-en-Ciel, Arles, France | |
| Group exhibition, Nikon Gallery, Zurich | |
| Exhibition, Internationale Fototage Herten, Germany | |
| Exhibition, Department of Culture, Waldshut, Germany | |
| 1994 | Exhibition , Arc-en-Ciel, Arles, on the occasion of Rencontres de la Photographie |
| Exhibition, Mamyia Foto Galerie, Biel | |
| Exhibition, Galerie Maurer, Munich | |
| 1993 | Exhibition, Photogalerie Bild, Aarau |
| 1992 | Group exhibition “Polaroid,” Nikon Gallery Zurich |
| 1991 - 92 | “Kunstszene Zürich” |
| 1987 | Realization of the Kodak calendar |
| 1986 | Exhibition, Art Connection, Basel |
| 1985 | Exhibition, Nikon Gallery, Zurich |
| 1984 | Exhibition, La Plume, La-Chaux-de-Fonds |
| Group exhibition, Nikon Gallery, Zurich | |
| 1983 | Participation in “Kunstszene Zürich” |
1982 | Exhibition, Nikon Gallery, Zurich |
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