753 - Floris M. Neusüss

Floris M. Neusüss Renate Heyne Speerschleudernder Achill (Detail) 2008 Photogram on Ilfochrome-Classic paper. 49.9 x 60 cm. Signed by both photographers, dated and inscribed in pencil as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso. Unique. Thor 61,17 Provenance Estate of Floris Neusüss Literature cf. Raimund Wünsche (ed.), Anteidola. Fotogramme von Floris Neusüss in der Glyptothek, exhib.cat. Glyptothek München, Kassel 2002 The photogram shows the head of Achilles, one of the ‘Aeginetans’ from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina (around 510–480 B.C.), with additions by Bertel Thorvaldsen (around 1816), photographed in 2008 at the Glyptothek in Munich as part of a continuation of the photogram work begun there in 2000. “Floris Neusüss has greatly expanded upon the photogram technique of his predecessors. Not only did he invert the black-and-white tonal values so that dark figures appear against a light background, or subject the figures to multiple exposures, giving them an animated effect [...] His most important discovery lies in reversing the relationship between the object and the photographic material. Whereas in the ‘classical’ photogram the object had to be brought into the darkroom and placed on the light-sensitive paper, Neusüss takes the material to the object: to the museum, at night”. (Raimund Wünsche (ed.), op. cit. 2002, book jacket text)