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Info: For over four decades Irmel Kamp has been photographing architecture, conducting long-term research projects focused on a single style or region. We are excited to present the second exhibition with german artist Irmel Kamp. The exhibition features works from the series Modernism in Europe, including two large-format prints that are rarely shown and are being exhibited for the first time. Kamp’s images, like the buildings she depicts, alternate between systematic rigor and idiosyncrasy. The perspective from which she shoots is never uniform, and not necessarily comprehensive either, nor do her portraits shun later additions, or corruptions, of the original building’s design. The modern, utopian, ideal of pure and universal functionalism is here juxtaposed with its realization – confronted with the inevitability of the passage of time and decay. Irmel Kamp, born in Germany in 1937, lives and works in Aachen. The artists work is featured in the collections of Kolumba, Cologne, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, J.P. Morgan Collection, New York, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Museum for Contemporary Art, ikob, Eupen, Belgium, Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco, among others.