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Details of object number: 38-00006
Title:L’Origine – self-portrait
Object name:Photography
Collection:038-Brigitte Niedermair (Foto)
Created by:Niedermair, Brigitte (Fotograf/in) (Meran/Merano, 1971)
Production date:(dated) 09.07.2010 — (dated) 12.07.2010
Description:The artist is standing with her back to the viewer: before her is a lake. The glacier tongue winds through barren rocks and down into the lake. The colours are very subtle: nature here appears in very fine shades of grey and brown. The white of the glacier is reflected in the waters of the lake.
Hist. crit. notes:Brigitte Niedermair (born 1971 in Meran/o) has devoted herself for over 20 years to photography. She became known as a fashion photographer for various international fashion magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, etc., assignments that took her to the great centres of fashion, such as Milan, Paris and the US.
The aesthetics and eroticism of the female body, but also its fragility, are at the centre of her photographic work. The presentation is always reduced to the essentials, with the female bodies seemingly perfectly staged.
She is considered a perfectionist of the image and leaves nothing to chance in her work.
Since 2005 Niedermair has devoted herself primarily to photography in an artistic sense. Nevertheless, her preferred subject remains the female body, which is now more often presented as an aesthetic still life standing, at first glance, in contradiction to its surroundings. She consciously uses symbols and playfully employs metaphors to question role models and social structures.
The self-portrait “L’Origine” shows the artist naked before the Norwegian glacier known as the Briksdalsbreen: together with other photographic works by Niedermair, it was shown at Milan’s Galleria Galica in 2011 as part of the exhibition “In Principio”.
Small as the naked body may appears in the midst of this wild and untamed natural world, it nonetheless radiates great power, rising like a rock from the surf. The cold seems to have no effect on this supposedly fragile female form. Is Brigitte Niedermair preparing to dive into the cold water?
She herself says that she generally believes in the language of art, which not only expresses a message but always allows for multiple interpretations. However, aesthetics are always for her a central concern.
The aesthetics and eroticism of the female body, but also its fragility, are at the centre of her photographic work. The presentation is always reduced to the essentials, with the female bodies seemingly perfectly staged.
She is considered a perfectionist of the image and leaves nothing to chance in her work.
Since 2005 Niedermair has devoted herself primarily to photography in an artistic sense. Nevertheless, her preferred subject remains the female body, which is now more often presented as an aesthetic still life standing, at first glance, in contradiction to its surroundings. She consciously uses symbols and playfully employs metaphors to question role models and social structures.
The self-portrait “L’Origine” shows the artist naked before the Norwegian glacier known as the Briksdalsbreen: together with other photographic works by Niedermair, it was shown at Milan’s Galleria Galica in 2011 as part of the exhibition “In Principio”.
Small as the naked body may appears in the midst of this wild and untamed natural world, it nonetheless radiates great power, rising like a rock from the surf. The cold seems to have no effect on this supposedly fragile female form. Is Brigitte Niedermair preparing to dive into the cold water?
She herself says that she generally believes in the language of art, which not only expresses a message but always allows for multiple interpretations. However, aesthetics are always for her a central concern.
Physical description:Fotografien, insgesamt 48 Stück. 4 ausgewählt
Institution:Amt für Film und Medien
Theme:Kunst und Kultur
Content: person: Brigitte Niedermair