Donata Wenders (2.06.2010, 17.30, The Art Museum)
“I ‘connect’ and want to take a picture, when I see a certain ‘attitude of the heart’, conveyed through a gesture, the facial expression, body language, the posture or appearance of a person.” (Donata Wenders)
Portraits of people and places by Donata Wenders have a unique coherence between the natural light she photographs in and the mood of the portrayed.
She respects her models in their intimate space and condenses the relevance of those fragile situations with her language in black and white, with chiaroscuro, incisiveness or diffuse haziness. Her work is inspired and based on the classic documentary photography of an Alfred Stieglitz, Eduard Steichen, August Sander or Henry Cartier-Bresson.
Portraying someone, she enters into “a photographic conversation” as she herself calls it. She does not direct or stage anybody, she rather “listens” with her lense to the silence, the whisper or the shout of the person or the place. “Things become extraordinary”, as Siri Hustvedt puts it, writing about the photographs of Donata Wenders.
The collection selected for MUZEUL DE ARTA – Cluj-Napoca, with the title ABSENT PRESENCE, originate in the years between 1995 and 2010.
The exhibition will be open to the public from June 2nd to June 4th 2010.
Published at: 11 May 2010
Author: PR TIFF