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göTz DieRgaRTen
Artist Profile Artist Profile
1963 born in Mannheim; new york, Usa
lives and works in kaiserslautern and frankfurt am Main, germany

in my previous work i dealt with the painting-like impact of details in the “design” of fades in germany, france and switzerland, i got very
out of banal fades – mainly from the fifties and sixties. i found this motives much interested in a comparison of holiday houses along the coast and
all over germany – later also in switzerland and france. Thereby i realized the specific atmosphere of seaside resorts. These buildings are built for
slightly differences in the architecture and the usage of color, although the most delightful time of their owners: their holiday – only a few weeks
there are quite a lot of similarities. The fades of a house have to be closed per year. The effort and interest to create something really “beautiful” is
in order to create the above described pictorial effect. i don’t want to be often confronted with financial, ecological (nature reserve) and climatically
a voyeur and i don’t want the recipient to feel like one. if the shutters are (wind and water along the coast) restrictions. Due to these facts the small
not or only partly closed you become interested in the individual who lives buildings often appear somehow a bit strange. nevertheless, with their
behind the fade. But i’m rather interested in the society or the group of shutters and doors closed and their pastel colors their owners also create
people who create this “pictures” – especially because the same people unconsciously “pictures”. for me this work is like an intimate portrait of
pass by these buildings absolutely indifferent, they don’t realize the the people of different countries. Each fade has his own characteristics,
pictures in the banality. almost two years ago i got interested in holiday his own face; each building also works as a witness of times. often there
homes in the cotentin / northern france. after “Ravenoville” i took two are regimentations for small holiday homes along the coast. These rules
more series of other holiday houses along the beaches of northern france. and laws how to build or paint your house creates a common basis, a
since i had realised the slightly differences possibility to compare and also look behind the closed fades.
(the phenomenon of holidAy homes / AlonG europeAn CoAsts)

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 Untitled (goUville, PAmnorAmA), 2002 c-TyPE PrinT 30 x 180 cM. / 12 x 71 in., EDiTion 8

 Untitled (goUville, single hoUse), 2002 c-TyPE PrinT 100 x 100 cM. / 39¼ x 39¼ in., EDiTion 8

 Untitled (goUville, single hoUse), 2002 c-TyPE PrinT 100 x 100 cM. / 39¼ x 39¼ in., EDiTion 8
Untitled (goUville, single hoUse), 2002 c-TyPE PrinT 100 x 100 cM. / 39¼ x 39¼ in., EDiTion 8
Courtesy of GAlerie thomAs Poller, frAnkfurt Am mAin, GermAny

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