In the series „Meereskugel (Ocean globe)“ – as in her video films she started to make in 1999 – Ingeborg Lüscher chose to take that part of the director. Perhaps the more distanced position of the director – as she heartlessly abandons the sulphur-yellow Meereskugel to the mercy of the breakers – also allows her to select the most meaningful images. Whatever the case, the photographs that result from that game prove to be profoundly affecting metaphors.
Christoph Vögele 2016
IL802.1 – IL802.15
Ocean Globe, 1995
Meereskugel, 1995
Series of 15 photographs
Kodachrome on aluminium
15 units, each 70.5 x 101 x 2 cm
One artist proof 87 x 125,5 x 2 cm
Verso I. Lüscher 1995
Archive numbers GMK I – GMK XV
One unit: Regina Wyrwoll, München
One unit: DZ Bank Frankfurt
Provenance
The artist
(Galerie Marianne Grob)
Exhibitions
Finca El Cabrito, San Sebastian de La Gomera 1999
Catalogues
Aarau 1996, cover (ill). Rovereto 2004, pp 142-143
Texts
Herzog 1999, pp 78-79. Vögele 2016, pp 12 (ill), 26 (ill)