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Balthasar Burkhard
Rio Negro 02 – Balthasar Burkhard, Black and White Photography, Jungle, River

2002

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Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland) Rio Negro 02, 2002 Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, artist's iron frame, museum glass Sheet 125 x 250 cm (49 1/4 x 98 3/8 in.) Frame 127 x 252 x 4 cm (50 x 99 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.) From a sold out edition of 7 Framed print Burkhard, who almost always worked in black and white, was best known for his large-format photographic series. These images have been described as centering "on a stock of clearly defined subjects which he carefully extracts one by one from their context", as for instance with the photograph of an arm that filled an entire exhibition hall in the Kunsthalle Basel in 1983. His work has been praised for its "hermeticism and poetic depth", characterized as that of a "hyperrealist dreamer" and placed in the tradition of Tanizaki Junichiro and Gustave Courbet, whom Burkhard admired; his photographic reflections on the painter's work were made part of the great Courbet exposition of 2007 in the Grand Palais. A central theme in Burkhard's work was the depiction of the female sex, in an approach that has been interpreted as the "search for the primordial goddess, the focus of all desires". Women were notably the focus of a 1970s Polaroid nudes series with Markus Raetz, the theme of a noted series of photographs on the nape and feet of a geisha, and the topic of a number of huge images shown in 2008 in the Songlines exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf. Burkhard and his work are the subject of an episode of the 2005 3sat documentary series PHOTOsuisse. His photographs have been published in several coffee-table books. – Balthasar Burkhard, Black and White Photography, Switzerland, Structure, Geometry, Landscape, Forest, Jungle, Rio, Water, River, Nature
  • Creator:
    Balthasar Burkhard (1944 - 2010)
  • Creation Year:
    2002
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 49.22 in (125 cm)Width: 98.43 in (250 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Zurich, CH
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU128017313982
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