Zander Galerie

Lewis Baltz, Jeff Wall

Info: Zander Galerie Cologne is pleased to present select works of Lewis Baltz and Jeff Wall in dialogue in the Painters of Modern Life exhibition. These move in the field of tension between photography, painting and film, in the process exploring the boundaries of the medium of photography. The chosen title refers to Baltz’ essay about his artist colleague Jeff Wall, which was published for the first time in September 1997 in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, no. 312 and later in the anthology Texts from Steidl Verlag. This important publication compiles central texts of the American artist Lewis Baltz for the first time. The numerous essays he published between 1974 and 2012 in journals like Art in America, The Times Literary Supplement, Camera Austria or L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui provide insights into the understanding of art and politics of one of the most important photographers of his generation, who nonetheless said of himself: I never saw myself as a photographer. I never liked photography very well. I never felt any allegiance to its so-called history. (…) I made photographs because photography was the simplest, most direct way of recording something. (…)