Claudia ROGGE

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Ronchini Contemporarty Art Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the German photographer Claudia Rogge, realized together with the Voss Gallery in Dusseldorf.

The exhibition shows six new works, that account for part of her latest production, some of which were already shown in the occasion of her recent retrospective inaugurated last May at the MOMA in Moscow.

The individual, reproducibility, mass, these are the essential elements of Claudia Rogge’s works. The characters are pictured in various attitudes, with their backs to the viewer or in profile, wearing plissés and evening dresses or completely naked. They are the prototype of the inexhaustible mass of clones, solely replying to the artist’s pure aesthetic research that, with her philosophy, challenges all those who see in the anonymous multitude nothing other than a despicable jumble from which one must emerge in order to be somebody. Claudia Rogge explains to us that the crowd, on the contrary, can be strong but above all beautiful.

It is maybe the contrast between the expressive rigidity and the action of the bodies, it may be the playing of the empty parts with the full ones, but her images give a feeling of tension, of action and a certain amount of mystery.

“The mass is often associated with negative thoughts – explains Claudia Rogge – it reminds of dictatorships, slavery, the automatism of society, genetic engineering and so on… but when I started, my intention was to open an aesthetic route to the masses, not necessarily determined by such associations”. Nevertheless, the repetition of the bodies in her works is not a simple model, it suspends the person’s identity and begins a proper circuit of disquiet between the observer and who is observed and the individual’s gaze is forced to refocus its attention to uniqueness and multiplicity.

Claudia Rogge was born in Dusseldorf in 1965. She works and lives in Germany. She has shown her works in important international exhibitions at the Museum of Orlando (United States), at the Europaisches Museum fur Frieden in Vienna, at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg. Furthermore, she has participated in some international fairs, such as Art Cologne (Cologne), Art Fair (Bologna) and Art Moscow (Moscow). Last May 2009 “A Retrospective” Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

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