LANDHAUS LEMKE
2008
deSingel, Antwerp, BE
04 MAR 2010 – 22 MAY 2010
LANDHAUS LEMKE, Heidi Specker, 2010, 8 min., 1-channel video, Commisioned for 2 1/2 Dimensional, de Singel, Antwerp, (excerpt)
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Haus, Berlin, DE
13 DEC 2008 – 01 MAR 2009
Struktur 1, Raum 1, Heidi Specker, 2008, 4-part colourrange Artisanal Offset Print, each 60 x 45 cm;
Objekt 7, Heidi Specker, 2008, 4-part colourrange Artisanal Offset Print, 60 x 40 cm
It is difficult to explain why the sheer surface is enough for Heidi Specker to evoke space, why the image-filling detail of a brick wall is enough for her to let the viewer enjoy all of Mies van der Rohe's architectural sophistication. One constantly asks oneself, what is she doing with the camera that her photographs, which are decidedly minimalist in terms of motif, tell so much? She doesn't show the whole armchair, but only one corner. She doesn't photograph the house as it lies in the middle of the garden that stretches to the lake, but only the reflection of a few trees standing by the water in the glass front of the house. She does not photograph the cupboard, but only a piece of its natural rosewood grain. She abstracts Mies van der Rohe and, paradoxically, thereby succeeds in making the most precise and concrete statements imaginable about his architecture.
Brigitte Werneburg, 2009, Die Sprache des Materials, TAZ
Press Review
TAZ, 15 Jan 2009
Tagesspiegel, 16 Dec 2008
Berliner Zeitung, 25 Jan 2001