HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?A Photographic Odyssey Through Salzburg Exhibition at the Space for Photography at the Fortress / Traklhaus, Salzburg April – July 2019 Opening talk by photography-historian Margit Zuckriegl. Where is the woman in the red coat going? What makes her wander through Salzburg alone? Why does she refuse to re- gard the “postcard-views” of the city and stubbornly looks in the “wrong” direction? Is she fleeing from the camera? Does she look at those places in personal reminiscence? Or is her gaze directed at almost forgotten things or at the suppressed ones? Could it be worth searching ourselves for the things she actually might be seeing? – The series, which has been developed by Andreas J. Hirsch specifically […]
“At the beginning stood the observation that over the last couple of years we see a rising tide of hatred, dominating over love. Of course there has always been love and hate as part of human nature, but this time a delicate balance is getting lost. From small everyday situations to world politics we encounter hatred as the main motive everywhere. In order to contribute to the effort of making love stronger and winning over hate again, I asked artists to allow me to portrait them with an object of importance to them and to tell me about the meaning it carries related to their lives and work and to the topic of LOVE OVER HATE.” Andreas J. Hirsch, 2016 […]
“Encounters of art and science, or, more precisely, of artists and scientists, have enjoyed rapidly growing interest and attention in recent years. The romance of art and science has a long history, albeit a mixed one. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), the artist and polymath active in the Florence of the Renaissance, still serves as the prominent example for the enormous creative potential flowing from the interactions of art and science. Since then science has been splitting up into numerous paths of ever deeper specialization, seeking knowledge within reductionist paradigms, and has largely abandoned free science in favor of research inside large organizations able to afford and maintain the ever larger and more refined instruments needed for it. Art—at the price […]
Soil Lives ! (German: Boden lebt!)The Live and Work of Annie Francé-HarrarAndreas J. Hirsch (Author) Language: GermanKataloge des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz, 2016
The final Hours of the Cafè-Mentone in ViennaA series by Andreas J. Hirsch Exhibition at HERR LEUTNER, Vienna, November – December 2016 30 May 2016: The last opening day of the Cafè Mentone in Vienna. – When meeting at the Café Mentone, Ronnie Niedermeyer and Andreas J. Hirsch were shocked to learn that this was the closing day of the Café. As the news sank in, Andreas J. Hirsch started photographing along their ongoing conversation until they left the Café.