Sequential Imagery Research

 Jürgen Klauke

Formalisierung der Langeweile, 1980 - 1981

From the series Formalisierung der Langeweile

c-print, 3 panels,

24 x 20 inch / 60 x 50 cm

Source: Galerie Thomas Zander

Jurgen Klauke is a German artist who uses photography and performance to explore identity, the body and staged photography. His seminal work from 1970s uses his own body as subject and object. These sequential performances use a mixture of minimalism and surrealism to express the human state of mind - whether this is disturbed, bored (as above), depressed, excited, ecstatic or simply about being oneself.

                 

Jürgen Klauke at Guido W. Baudach, Berlin. From the Exhibition Bewegtes Ich (Moving Self) (2017)
Source: Jurgen Klauke-at-guido-w-baudach 

                

Jürgen Klauke at Guido W. Baudach, Berlin. From the Exhibition Bewegtes Ich (Moving Self) (2017)

Source: Jurgen Klauke

Contemporary Art Daily writes in its press release for this show: 'The fundamental themes of Klauke’s work are: the breakdown of human communication, losing the reason for living, the crippling emptiness and boredom of an unfulfilled existence, the suggestive threats to mental and physical identity through the power of the media, and the mechanisation of all areas of life, not excluding the human body. When Klauke does move away from this agenda, at times through irony, he does so to express despair rather than to create distance.' (Contemporary Art Daily 2017). In my own work I am hoping to create some of this sense of communication breaking down, the sense of being very alone in a loud and busy world. The images I am intending to create will I hope have this vibrant sense of emptiness within them.


References
Contemporary Art Daily (2017) Jürgen Klauke at Guido W. Baudach, Berlin [Online] Available from: http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2017/06/jurgen-klauke-at-guido-w-baudach/ (Accessed 29th September 2018)

Galerie Thomas Zander (2018) Jürgen Klauke [Online] Available from: https://www.galeriezander.com/en/artist/juergen_klauke/works (Accessed 29th September 2018)