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De la série : La beauté des femmes - Ceintures d'Aphrodite,
1995
by Matthias Leupold
Photography : black & white edition 20 x 15 cm 7.9 x 5.9 inch
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The Beauty of Women - 38 Open Air Studies (1995)
In the black-and-white series Die Schönheit der Frauen - 38 Freilichtstudien Matthias Leupold refers to an illustrated book (Die Schönheit der Frauen / La Beauté Plastique, edited by the painter Ed. Daelen and Dr. Paul Hirth), which achieved high print runs in Germany and France at the beginning of the 20th century. As a textbook for budding artisans, the editors were able to publish numerous nudes with more erotic content, thus avoiding censorship.
By taking up the beauty ideal at the turn of the 20th century, Leupold vividly demonstrates how much aesthetic ideals are subject to constant change, never universally valid and always subject to doctrines. If one compares the women in this series with today's depictions of women in magazines, in advertising, and in the web world, Leupold's photographic depictions give women's bodies the dignity and framework to show their individual beauty independently of the aesthetic ideals of our time.
At the same time, Matthias Leupold refers to the prudery and hypocrisy of the Wilhelminian period, in which erotic female nudes were only allowed to appear dressed up in a textbook and the women depicted were not themselves depicted as flesh and blood beings of that era, but were staged, for example, as quotations from ancient figures.
Matthias Leupold's way of depicting aesthetic ideals, social norms and a contemporary image of women from the imperial era and of re-staging them with reference to the ideals of his own present day characterizes the conceptual approach of the series The Beauty of Women. As a critical observer, he moves at the intersection of fashions, typical contemporary ideas and social norms of several epochs and thus also becomes a critical observer of parallel phenomena in contemporary media.
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In the black-and-white series Die Schönheit der Frauen - 38 Freilichtstudien Matthias Leupold refers to an illustrated book (Die Schönheit der Frauen / La Beauté Plastique, edited by the painter Ed. Daelen and Dr. Paul Hirth), which achieved high print runs in Germany and France at the beginning of the 20th century. As a textbook for budding artisans, the editors were able to publish numerous nudes with more erotic content, thus avoiding censorship.
By taking up the beauty ideal at the turn of the 20th century, Leupold vividly demonstrates how much aesthetic ideals are subject to constant change, never universally valid and always subject to doctrines. If one compares the women in this series with today's depictions of women in magazines, in advertising, and in the web world, Leupold's photographic depictions give women's bodies the dignity and framework to show their individual beauty independently of the aesthetic ideals of our time.
At the same time, Matthias Leupold refers to the prudery and hypocrisy of the Wilhelminian period, in which erotic female nudes were only allowed to appear dressed up in a textbook and the women depicted were not themselves depicted as flesh and blood beings of that era, but were staged, for example, as quotations from ancient figures.
Matthias Leupold's way of depicting aesthetic ideals, social norms and a contemporary image of women from the imperial era and of re-staging them with reference to the ideals of his own present day characterizes the conceptual approach of the series The Beauty of Women. As a critical observer, he moves at the intersection of fashions, typical contemporary ideas and social norms of several epochs and thus also becomes a critical observer of parallel phenomena in contemporary media.
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Matthias Leupold is not a documentary photographer, however "realistic" his pictures may appear. The reality of his pictures is always staged.
Born in East Berlin in 1959, he lived there in the district of Prenzlauer Berg until his emigration to the western part of the city in 1986, where he has been working on pictures since 1983, staged with actors and directed counter worlds to everyday life in East Germany. His research and examination of their norms and conventions led him to look for images of "reality behind reality" and topics that lie outside public and propagated self-assurance.
Matthias Leupold represents a unique figure in the artistic landscape. This is expressed in his contributions to the exhibitions: Art in the GDR, Berlin National Gallery 2003 and Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 2004, in Moscow 2004, portraits and scenes 1980-1990 in the Akademie der Künste 2009 and Geschlossene Gesellschaft in the Berlinische Galerie 2012.
When it comes to defining Leupold's work and elaborations, one summarizes in three polar tensions: between statics and dynamics, between contemplation and narration, between comic and symbol. In the pictures, these dimensions and categories do not fall apart but merge partly or completely together.
Matthias Leupold completed his photographic education at the D.E.F.A. studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. in the early eighties, he started staging photographs in order to express his interest in both photography and film. At first small exhibitions in East Berlin were tolerated by the GDR government. More extensive exhibitions for example at Bauhaus in Dessau and University of Fine Arts in Dresden were forbidden. In 1986, threats of arrest and condemnation influenced his decision to move from East Berlin to West Berlin. He started studying Visual Communications in 1987 at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), completing his degree as a master student. He has traveled to many places, including America and Asia, in order to exhibit his work and to photograph in very diverse places.
Leupold is a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) and the German Photographic Academy.
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