DOROTHEE WALDENMAIER X ART TOURS BERLIN
LIMITED EDITION TOTE BAG
DOROTHEE WALDENMAIER X ART TOURS BERLIN
Locally printed organic cotton Tote Bag
100% Organic Cotton, 200g, 38cm x 42cm
LIMITED EDITION OF 50
Artwork by Berlin-based artist Dorothee Waldenmaier from the series Kopie III
Art Tours Berlin has been collaborating with Dorothee for the past several years and are so delighted to present her powerful minimalist monochrome oeuvre.
Dorothee investigates the relationship between the copy and the original: working with a traditional photocopy machine, she generates images whose origin cannot be traced back to any object or source material. The starting point is always the copy machine itself: shifted and copied over and over, she arrives at these undulating waves, formed by the play of shadow and light, and by many repeated gestures. It is the errors and traces of the copying process which are exposed and resolved. Visual sampling produces images that are both abstract and concrete. In the investigation, she gives the copies space to appear as an independent aesthetic phenomenon.
What emerges is no longer simply a reproduction, but something that stands by itself. The copy becomes the original. The work oscillates between abstraction and representation, construction and coincidence, documentary and conceptual processes. It is the expression of an artistic attitude in which the photographic image is understood as a space that is constantly being redefined.