Fritz Rahmann
Nature of Images, report February 5th to 28th, 1991, 1991

Artist
Fritz Rahmann

Title
Nature of Images, report February 5th to 28th, 1991

Year of creation
1991

Technique and dimensions
mixed media including 2,250 photos, 150 x 100 cm

Year of acquisition
2006

Acquisition of the foundation

The trigger for Fritz Rahmann's work Nature of Images. For the artist, reportage was a scene on the evening news. The German foreign minister, stumbling over rubble in Tel Aviv and unable to comment, seemed to prove to Rahmann that television can, after all, broadcast sudden facts that extend beyond what was intended to be shown. For a moment the scene revealed more than one could expect. The work “Nature of Images. Reportage,” which was shown in five Asian cities at the invitation of the Goethe Institute, also shows such scenes. These are captured in photographs and are usually represented by different faces of people spread around the room. Rahmann's works are mostly temporary works in public spaces; they allow art to take place in places where it cannot be commercialized, which puts the role of the artist in a new perspective.

This socio-political view of the Büro Berlin group, which Rahmann developed together with Raimund Kummer and Herrmann Pitz, makes it clear that every place could be a space for art - with which they tried to do what many young artists put into practice in the 1990s became. The penetration of art into public space and the separation of museums and galleries is based on the question of the concept of art, which is changing from a traditional work to a view of processes. Rahmann combines tactile action with theoretical engagement, allows art to arrive in space, questions the form and task of the artist within society and does this with less provocative works than his colleagues, which nevertheless, or perhaps because of this, stimulate thought.