EAN: 9783903439801

TERRA NOVA - REINHARD SPIELER KARTONIERT (TB)

In his series TERRA NOVA  the internationally active photographer Egbert Trogemann turns his
attention to the Hambach Forest. This name stands for one of the oldest and most diverse
forests in Europe as well as for the destruction of nature in favor of coal-mining and profit.
In his artistic investigation  Trogemann presents the impact of the clearing of the forest as
well as instances of the struggle against that destruction as an expression of power structures
and simultaneously as precursors of a future world oscillating between utopia and dystopia. The
pictures  taken between 2018 and 2021  show temporary buildings erected by environmentalists as
well as a bizarre observation deck set up by the energy company and offering a view of this new
world-the series takes its title from the same-named slogan of the company. Simultaneously  the
poetical black-and-white photographs summon up associations with magical  primal moments and
raise underlying questions. In view of the special role of the forest for German national
identity  for example in Romanticism or in the Grimm's fairy tales  the question arises as to
how this forest clearance should be interpreted in an era of far-reaching political  climatic
and social uprooting and reconfiguring. The publication presents a selection of photographs in
connection with an essay by Reinhard Spieler  art historian and director of the Sprengel
Museums Hannover. He writes that the photographer proceeds like an archaeologist who derives
from the scanty traces of the past points of reference for the reconstruction of the ways of
life characteristic of past cultures.

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