RGB Routine
1997
Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, DE
15 Feb 2019 – 12 May 2019
Installation view at Who's afraid of Bauhaus? Kritische Reflexionen zum 100., ©Museum der Stadt Ratingen
Out of Heidi Specker's openness and confidence in the new technical possibilities came the six large-format prints. It is a feeling of indeterminacy that RGB-Routine, 1997, has created on this trip: On the one hand, one is confronted with photographs of powerful showpieces of the big city: a residential tower, a bank, a department store, a hotel, an office building. On the other hand, the city dominants are reminiscent of dominoes or Lego towers, models that could easily be transplanted onto the Monopoly board.
The drifting of the towers into the unreal and playful is brought out by Specker's work with the blur filter and testing of new technology. Inevitably, you taste the 1990s, early computer graphics or CD covers.
Michael Stockhausen, 2019, Who’s afraid of Bauhaus? - Kritische Reflexionen zum 100.
Bürohaus, Heidi Specker, 1997, Inkjet Print, 180 x 125 cm
Fassade, Heidi Specker, 1997, Inkjet Print, 180 x 125 cm
In her series, Heidi Specker often shows skyscraper facades of the sixties and seventies in extreme angles and detail. In the large-format series―RGB Routine―a digital blur filter deprives low-res images of any detailed information. What remains of the concrete image are modular structures and generated patterns. Specker sees computer photography as a "consistent technical equivalent to the modern urban environment.”
Spiegel-Special, 1998
Plaza, Heidi Specker, 1997, Inkjet Print, 180 x 125 cm
Kaufhaus, Heidi Specker, 1997, Inkjet Print, 180 x 125 cm
Installation view at ars viva 1997/1998, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
Further participating exhibitions include:
ars viva 97/98 - Medienkunst
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
9 Oct 1997 – 23 Nov 1997
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
11 Jan 1998 – 22 Feb 1998
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
5 Mar 1998 – 13 Apr 1998
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
26 Apr 1998 – 7 Jun 1998
Press Review