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Stefanie Schneider
Jane (Heavenly Falls) - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
2016

Name: Jane (Heavenly Falls) - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Brand: Stefanie Schneider
Rating: 4.9 (36 reviews)

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Jane (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 50 x 50 cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Artist inventory 19503. Signed on verso and certificate Not mounted. On the edge of Berlin, in the outer suburb of Weissensee, the artist Stefanie Schneider works in her dream lab factory, producing analog artworks based on the expired Polaroid material she’s been using for over 20 years. Dedicating an entire artistic career on a vanishing medium may seem like a risky dream but the revival of analog is growing. This first show presented by the Instantdreams Gallery has been produced for the documentary “Instant Dreams”. A film about the magic of Polaroid featuring the artist Stefanie Schneider. Last June the team came to California to film Stefanie working on her newest project. In this context Willem filmed Stefanie’s post production in her Berlin studio and next door in the large industrial hall Stefanie’s Instantdreams exhibition for the purpose of achieving immortality in the documentary. Instant Dreams is not your typical documentary. It’s a cinematic essayistic quest for the secret and magical appeal of Polaroid. “Stefanie’s lifelong relationship with instant film is inspiring, her work impressive and fully embodies my vision of this medium and the way I want to portray it in my film... Me choosing the title Instant Dreams is no accident. That’s why I decided that Stefanie will be the artist to be featured in the film and I think that it should be done in a way that not only puts a spotlight onto her work, but adds to the mystique. That, what is in some form illusive, mysterious and magical only makes us crave for more. So in filming how Stefanie creates her work, I will try to capture the elements of her work in the visuals of my film; the day-dream-like quality, power of femininity, subtle eroticism and whole eccentric vibe of the time-less surroundings. Stefanie is a great artist; and I want to portray that greatness in a poetic larger than life fashion.” Willem Baptist 2016 “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” – Dr. Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen. Stefanie Schneider's new photographic works tell fantastic stories about her adopted Californian home. She seeks out faded American myths and distils auratically charged reality in a very personal and surprising way. She uses out-of-date Polaroid film, and the blemishes caused by the degenerated film stock, - are included in the composition in a painterly way. Exposure mistakes and low budget movie effects are combined to alienating effect. Everything shimmers and flickers before our eyes. The artist plays with the authentic poetry of the amateur, mixing strangely dreamy staging with random photochemical events. In the 16-part work Frozen, which is characterized by a strangely transcendent mood in the lighting, film-still-like pictorial clusters come together to form a mysterious story, with the artist herself as the lonely protagonist. the aesthetic is reminiscent of early Lynch films. The components of the elliptically choreographed events are scenes from an enchanted, gleaming winter landscape, together with "staged snapshots" of a pale young woman in her underskirts, who radiates the troubled reality of a mirage with her sleep walking presence. The story is presented in the manner of cinematic flashbacks or dream sequences. Stage blood and a knife are used to evoke a crime of passion whose surreal attractiveness is derived from the scenic openess of what is shown. The deliberate use of old instant picture stock establishes in a richly faceted way the ephemeral quality of vulnerability and transience within a reality that is brittle from the outset. The American Stars and Stripes, recently updated as the absolute epitome of a patriotic signifier, is the subject of the 9-part work Primary Colors (2001). Schneider's reassuringly European view, free of undue emotion, presents the Stars and Stripes motif in a strangley alienated form: she shows stills with phases of fluttering violently in the wind, even torn in some cases, and the poor film stock emphazises the fragility of the icon even more. FlashART - Sabine Dorothee Lehner (translated from German by Michael Robinson)

Creator:
Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
Creation Year:
2016
Dimensions:
Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
Medium:
Archival Paper,Photographic Paper,C Print,Polaroid
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Morongo Valley, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: STSCH #0461stDibs: LU652310308652

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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