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Upcoming exhibition
9th October through 30th October 2010
Female IDs, a project of the artist/photographer
Josef Karl
1974 born in Vohenstrauss (Germany)1984 as early as at the age of 10 years my own studio in my parents’ house (first oil paintings)1986 first camera and intense engagement in photography in a home photo lab1992 first step as an art collector with an artwork by Joseph Beuys1996/1997 Institute of Art & Design (training with various designers und artists in Bavaria, Germany)1997 member of The Typographic Community Munich1997-2001 MA in design at the University of Applied Science, Munichsince 1999 Junior Art Director at the publishing house Hanra2001 first art photo book "Slums of Calcutta"(charity project)2007/2008 second art photo book "ABCnervosa"(charity project)2008 death of my one-year-old son Christopher, who was shaken to death by his nanny (enormous outrage in German mass media)since 2009 freelance photographer for shows&artists (jobs for Porsche, E.ON, Allianz Arena, DFB, Unicef, Ferrero, VIPs ...)2010 third art photo book "Female IDs – photography as a therapy"from 2010 on exhibitions of unique photo artworks (IDs as my own artist ID) in galleries and museums worldwideIn the exhibition some collaborations of Josef Karl with other artists such as Kommissar Hjuler will be also shown.In his series Female IDs the photographer, designer and artist Josef Karl stages wishes and misteries of human existence in the form of contrary identities. States of the same women overlap in the direct confrontation of identity-forming scenes, which either meet aesthetic conventions or break them. And what is more, the visual impact is based on the actually impossible - the concurrence of these states. This doesn't imply categories such as glamour, fashion, fetish or nude, but rather the scope of life itself as a visual dimension. Life of an individual is always the condensate of the possible whereas identity is always subject to an outer authority - a state, a contemplator - and is always alterable, for example in the form of a passport, appearance or even particular existence. Female IDs join together these complex aspects of human identity and consistently blend these ideas in unique works - artificial existences - on the level of art and take us for a journey to the most different possibilities of life... (Essay by Dr. Mario Klinger).
bookcover Female IDs [ka1000]
FemIDsNaschbox (Collaboration with Kommissar Hjuler) Ref : ka1003
Down Feather, 2009 Photograph and assemblage with old passports and down feathers 63x31cm, Unique Ref: ka1001
Parasite, 2009 Photography, Assemblage with old Passports and stocking 64x55cm, Unique, Ref: ka1011
Sushi Eyecatcher, 2009 Photography, Assemblage with old Passports and shushi-sticks 62x54cm, Unique, Ref: ka1016
light2sky (Collaboration with Nobuyoshi Araki) Ref 1009
skyPhone (Collaboration with Nobuyoshi Araki) ref: ka1015Kussmundbaum (Collaboration with Kommissar Hjuler) Ref 1008
lReisebegleiter (Collaboration with Kommissar Hjuler) Ref 1012
SCHREIn (Collaboration with Kommissar Hjuler) ref: ka1014
When a child dies, the nightmare of all parents, which has never been thought to an end, becomes reality.
The small Christopher Karl could turn as few as 14 monthes, because the nanny who had been recommended to his parents by the Munich office for youth welfare, herself mother of two children, shook him so severely that the boy died of the consequences of the shaken impact syndrome. Christopher was the sense of his parents' Natalie and Josef lives and their only sunshine. Other peoople talk or write about the feelings which forge out of their soul. Josef Karl catches the issues which are on his mind with his camera. The photographer takes photos, the writer writes, the composer composes, the painter paints: from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Joseph von Eichendorff over Gustav Mahler and Joseph Haydn to Thomas Mann and Käthe Kollwitz - all of them allowed room for the death of their children with the help of their art. This way indeed makes it possible to deal with one's grief, that is to say to involve it in one's work - to articulate it in art. (Abstract from prolog by Doris Witzany)
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