Archive 2020 KubaParis

EVERYTHING SO DEMOCRATIC AND COOL

Christian Werner, Everything so democratic and cool, Exhibition View
Christian Werner, Everything so democratic and cool, Exhibition View

Location

Blake & Vargas

Date

03.09 –06.10.2020

Curator

Sarah Bernauer & Matthias Last

Photography

Michael Gessner

Subheadline

A solo exhibition by photographer Christian Werner. Featuring works from his recent publication, EVERYTHING SO DEMOCRATIC AND COOL, taken between 2007 and the present day.

Text

Familiar faces, anonymous portraits, abandoned landscapes, animals and urban spaces – Everything so democratic and cool sketches an associative collage of our collective present. The images selected for this exhibition are drawn from various series and contexts: shots from fashion shoots, commissions for magazines and private portraits, as well as personal projects. They reveal the breadth of Werner’s work, and the vision of a gaze that is at once intimate and reserved. CHRISTIAN WERNER lives and works in Berlin. In addition to his work for many national and international magazines, he focuses on long-term projects from which several books have already emerged. Christian Werner previously dealt, among other things, with the disappearance of the former Federal Republic of Germany (Stillleben BRD, Kerber Verlag 2016) and the urban flora (Die Blüten einer Stadt, Suhrkamp 2018). In 2019 his book "Los Angeles" was published by Korbinian Verlag.