Jürgen Klauke. Ästhetische Paranoia edition Ilse Somavilla

Ilse Somavilla

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accentuates and sometimes damages the surfaces on which he downright engraves his contributions

as a counter-movement to the conceptual art of the 1970s

Jürgen Klauke. Ästhetische Paranoia edition Ilse SomavillaPhoto and media artist Jrgen Klauke (*1943) is known for his critical examination of socially standardized gender identities and patterns of behavior. His most recent work describes the paranoid perception as well as the paranoid structure of todays world. He is the first to so strikingly transpose the symptoms of this situation into an aesthetic. Klaukes photographs reflect the fundamental conditions of a fearful existence in scenes that range from