lens-based sculpture. Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie The Transformation of Sculpture through Photography

The richly illustrated catalogue book with texts by Michel Frizot, Ursula Frohne, Friedemann Malsch, Herbert Molderings, Dietmar Rübel and Annette Tietenberg as well as a picture essay by Bogomir Ecker and Raimund Kummer provides insights into the multi-layered art-scientific and artistic research on the phenomena of “lens-based sculpture”. It focuses on how modern sculpture became detached from the millennia-old principle of the statue through photography and transformed into a new artistic practice in which the whole of reality with its manifold tactile, spatial and medial phenomena becomes sculptural material. The camera serves as the primary sculpting tool, as a sketchpad and a tool for transforming spatial and structural renderings into mass and form. The term “lens-based sculpture”, used here for the first time, denotes a new perspective on sculpture and the history of art in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. The synopsis of around 150 exhibits by more than 70 international artists shows how fundamentally sculpture has changed in the past under the influence of photography and film.