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THE ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAIT IN PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1960 UNTIL 2000

In an age in which the presentation and staging of the self is becoming ever more popular 鈥� especially in connection with the social networks 鈥�, self-portraits and self-stagings by the classic exponents of photo art have also gained new topicality. The exhibition 鈥淭he Artist and His Self鈥� is concerned neither with the so-called 鈥渟elfie鈥� that anyone can shoot within a few seconds, nor with the classical portrait. Drawing from the rich photo holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the show will feature exclusively self-portraits by established artists that abstract the artist鈥檚 body. Photographs by Joseph Beuys, Bernhard Blume, Marcel Broodthaers, John Coplans, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Filliou, Janice Guy, Camill Leberer, Friederike Pezold, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Rinke and Timm Ulrichs will be on view together in this small presentation of works from the collection. Every one of the artists featured depicts his own body in highly individual manner 鈥� on differing premises and with differing motives. Some artists slip into roles they have chosen for themselves, others concentrate on alienating the artist鈥檚 portrait by painterly or technical means, still others show isolated parts of the body, which 鈥� staged or presented in widely different ways 鈥� stand for the artist鈥檚 body as a whole. Indirect artist鈥檚 portraits depicting objects, localities or scenes in place of the body will bring the show to a close and set it apart from the numerous classical self-portrait exhibitions of the past years.