Candida Höfer - Opéra de Paris / Philadelphia / Affinities / Twelve - 2001-2012

Opéra de Paris (2006)
Candida Höfer’s works have something timeless about them, and opera is perhaps the most timeless cultural delight. Having dedicated a photographic series to the cathedrals of knowledge that are libraries, Höfer in her most recent cycle captures opera houses, the palaces of performing arts. Höfer’s earlier pictures of public spaces—libraries, lecture halls, museums, meeting rooms—forever devoid of people, made us sense the presence of those absent. Her opera photographs take us one step beyond: empty foyers, orchestras, stages, wings, and boxes make us imagine both the protagonists—performers and audience—and the fictitious figures, plots, and places that populate these venues during a night at the opera. In her most recent publication Candida Höfer portrays two Paris opera houses that are exemplary for their age and time: the neoclassicist Palais Garnier (1875), original Phantom of the Opera site, and the modern-style Opéra Bastille (1989).

Philadelphia (2010)
La photographe allemande a photographié les intérieurs vides des bâtiments religieux, des collèges ou des bibliothèques de Philadelphie ; photos en couleurs.

Affinities, Affinitäten, Affiniteter (2012)
"For me, this exhibition provides occasion for introspection: without regard to time, motifs, and forms of presentation, I attempt to determine the common thread of the visual memory that has always been my guide." Born in 1944 and Bernd Becher’s first female student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Candida Höfer is one of the greats of international photography. The new art center Artipelag in Stockholm, which will open its doors on June 3, is presenting a large-scale retrospective of Höfer’s work that spans her early series, such as Liverpool and Turks in Germany, as well as Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais, her photographs of libraries and public spaces, and her most recent series on the Neues Museum in Berlin. The multilingual exhibition catalog (German/English/Swedish) is richly illustrated and includes an essay by psychologist and publicist F. W. Heubach and an introduction by Bo Nilsson.

Zwölf-Twelve (2001)
ouvrage relié avec jaquette. état neuf sous blister

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