// Attraktiver Atraktor by Jürgen Klauke is a lithographic print that explores surrealism and the human condition through a dark, thought-provoking composition. The image depicts a figure in formal attire sitting on a neatly stacked bed of linens, with an exaggeratedly elongated head stretching far beyond normal proportions, adding an unsettling and otherworldly quality. Klauke's work often challenges societal norms and examines the themes of identity and existentialism. The black-and-white tones emphasize the eerie, isolated atmosphere, suggesting a sense of detachment or introspection. Part of a limited edition of 60, this piece invites viewers to ponder themes of individuality, the absurdity of human form, and the boundaries of perception.
Jürgen Klauke (Germany, 1943) is a pioneering photographer and performance artist known for his exploration of identity, gender, and the human condition. His staged, conceptual photographs often challenge societal norms and blur the boundaries between art and life. A central figure in contemporary art, Klauke’s work is both provocative and introspective.
Lithograph Lithography is a printing method based on the principle that water and oil do not mix. It can be used to print artwork or text onto paper or other suitable materials. Traditionally, an image was drawn with wax, fat, or oil onto a lithographic limestone surface or plate. Today, metal plates and other surfaces are also used in lithographic printing.
// Attraktiver Atraktor by Jürgen Klauke is a lithographic print that explores surrealism and the human condition through a dark, thought-provoking composition. The image depicts a figure in formal attire sitting on a neatly stacked bed of linens, with an exaggeratedly elongated head stretching far beyond normal proportions, adding an unsettling and otherworldly quality. Klauke's work often challenges societal norms and examines the themes of identity and existentialism. The black-and-white tones emphasize the eerie, isolated atmosphere, suggesting a sense of detachment or introspection. Part of a limited edition of 60, this piece invites viewers to ponder themes of individuality, the absurdity of human form, and the boundaries of perception.
Jürgen Klauke (Germany, 1943) is a pioneering photographer and performance artist known for his exploration of identity, gender, and the human condition. His staged, conceptual photographs often challenge societal norms and blur the boundaries between art and life. A central figure in contemporary art, Klauke’s work is both provocative and introspective.
My body is a surface that many of the personalities and gender roles are being projected, and are transferred to the level of art.
- Jurgen Klauke
Jürgen Klauke is an influential photographer, widely attributed as being one of the first to be involved in Performance Art. He has contributed significantly to the development of photography as contemporary art. His avant-garde and actionist images focus on the human body in staged settings, which often appear surreal. Jürgen Klauke studied at the Werkschulen in Cologne and, from 1964 to 1970, he taught photography and art in Kassel. In the 1970s Jürgen Klauke’s photographic images were based around his own body and his performances. In a series of large-scale images he challenged what was at that time a traditional view of sexual identity and opposed social expectations of behavior. There was a darker mood revealed in many of his photography of the early 1980s and in the late 1980s he began a series of x-ray images of his own body. Some of his art deals with how physical identity and self awareness are constantly under threat from what is portrayed in the media and other outside influences. His series Aesthetic Paranoia is a pictorial analogy of the self obscured and bound by paranoia, sometimes becoming entangled with it. Jürgen Klauke has had a profound influence on the art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century. From 1993 to 2008, he was a professor at the Art Academy of Media in Cologne. (Artist website)
Body art involves creating art directly on or with the human body. Common forms include body piercings and tattoos, but it also encompasses practices like branding, scarification, scalping, body painting, full-body tattoos, body shaping, and sub-dermal implants. Body art can also refer to a subcategory of performance art where the artist's body is central to the artwork.