In the course of her Dresden project, the German photographer Candida Höfer has documented the very worst in 14 new works: The main stage, auditorium and workshops of the Semperoper deserted. The world-famous opera house was still missing from her icons of the city of culture, said Herbert Burkert from the Candida Höfer Foundation at the presentation in Dresden on Thursday. The 80-year-old, who is one of the best-known representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography, famous for its cool objectivity, only said: "The reference came about because I took photographs there." And left open whether the project is now complete.
The exhibition "Candida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection" will be showing Höfer's large-format photographs from the Saxon State Opera from Friday until July 21. Until July 21, they will be in dialog with woodcuts, engravings and etchings by Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer or Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the collection of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett - of stage-like architecture or scenes in workshops of the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
