PHOTOGRAPHIE ALS SPURENSICHERUNG - PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEMORY TRACE : Hommage à Günter Metken ©1974

In 1974, Günter Metken opens a show at the Kunstverein Hamburg entitled SPURENSICHERUNG, KUNST ALS ANTHROPOLOGIE UND SELBSTERFORSCHUNG, FIKTIVE WISSENSCHAFTEN IN DER HEUTIGEN KUNST (Memory Trace, Art as Anthropology & Self-exploration, Fictional Sciences in Art today) with Didier Bay, Jean-Marie Bertholin, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Costa, Jean le Gac, Jochen Gerz, Paul-Armand Gette, Nancy Graves, Nancy Kitchel, Nikolaus Lang, Annette Messager, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Charles Simons, Roger Welch, Rainer Wittenborn et al. The exhibition PHOTOGRAPHIE ALS SPURENSICHERUNG-PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEMORY TRACE at Brigitte March ICA shows a selection of artists of this historical show curated and organized by Günter Metken. Uwe H. Seyl illuminates differently the theme of the show by capturing light performances in black-and-white photographs.