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  • Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht
  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Alfredo Barsuglia
  • Hubert Becker
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Karl Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Edward Burtynsky
  • Christopher Bucklow
  • Sandi Červek
  • Caroline Wells Chandler
  • Sandro Chia
  • Natalie Czech
  • Violet Dennison
  • Ines Doujak
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Sophie Dvořák
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Simon Edmondson
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Christian Flora
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Franz Grabmayr
  • Ernst Gradischnig
  • Vivian Greven
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Giselbert Hoke
  • Andy Holtin
  • Bernadette Huber
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Eva Jospin
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Cornelius Kolig
  • Arnulf Komposch
  • Suse Krawagna
  • Eric Kressnig
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Margaret Lansink
  • Tina Lechner
  • Jens Liebchen
  • Axel Lieber
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Joel Meyerowitz
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Jürgen Münzer
  • Loredana Nemes
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Arnold Odermatt
  • Hans Op de Beeck
  • Bernd Oppl
  • Aitor Ortiz
  • Olga Pedan
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Arnold Pöschl
  • Hannes Rader
  • Damir Radović
  • Fabian Ramirez
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Julia Scher
  • Stefanie Seufert
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Toni Schmale
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Jon Shelton
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Paul Spendier
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Esther Stocker
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Oman Valentin
  • Anna Virnich
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • Ina Weber
  • Clemens Wolf
Che II Che II Hubert Becker, Che II, 2006
, Baryta print, 34.5 x 27.5 cm
Kollitsch Collection

The photo taken of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda in 1960 served as Hubert Becker’s source of inspiration for his work Che II (2006). As is characteristic of his artistic approach, he re-stages the original motif to give rise to a new photography which permits various levels of interpretation in the end product in terms of questioning perception, reality and illusion. Hubert Becker depicts the famous portrait of the revolutionary back-to-front, makes some slight changes and projects the face onto a double bed in the form of a bed covered in white, with items of clothing placed across its surface. This deceptive depiction plays on our visual mechanisms of perception – we see what we believe and we believe what we see.

Erich-Ferl-Straße (according to Thomas Struth) Erich-Ferl-Straße (according to Thomas Struth) Hubert Becker, Erich-Ferl-Straße (according to Thomas Struth), 2000
, Baryta print, 28.5 x 35 cm
Kollitsch Collection

In Hubert Becker’s photographs, questioning reality, truth and deception forms an integral part of his artistic creation process. The artist draws on various partially familiar original motifs which he then reproduces and re-stages. The scenes are sometimes very elaborately produced and recreated and are then photographed before being destroyed again. All that remains is an image which confronts the observer with a newly interpreted reality yet which is different and is somewhat satirised during the reproduction cycle. Nothing is as it appears to be.

Saltine Box (according to Paul Outerbridge) Saltine Box (according to Paul Outerbridge) Hubert Becker, Saltine Box (according to Paul Outerbridge), 2011
, Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 8.8 x 11.3 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Paul Outerbridge, whose photographic compositions are often compared with René Magritte’s paintings, was a pioneer in abstract object photography. In 1922 he photographed a Saltine box of crackers, coloured in silver and set against a silver background, with no other colours or lettering.

With this arrangement Hubert Becker paid homage to the original, while at the same time accentuating the contours more clearly, sharpening the shadows and applying fine nuances of colour.

— Felix Kucher

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