Peter C. Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe 2022 for Inge Dick
We are extremely happy about this great honor for Inge Dick, whose life's work we have been able to accompany and look after for more than 25 years.
We cordially invite you to the presentation of this prize provided by the Peter C. Ruppert Foundation to the artist Inge Dick in the Museum im Kulturspeicher in Würzburg on
Friday, November 18, 2022 at 6.30 pm
Christian Schuchardt, mayor of the city of Würzburg, and Luisa Heese, director of the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, speak as a welcome. Dr. Gerda Ridler, artistic director of the State Gallery of Lower Austria and longstanding expert on the work of Inge Dick. Musical interludes are provided by Arseniy Strokovskiy on the accordion.
Admission is free; Please register on Tel. 0931 – 3 22 25-0 or at museum.kulturspeicher@stadt.wuerzburg.de
With Inge Dick, one of the internationally most distinguished artists in the field of concrete art receives this award. For more than 50 years, the central concern of the artist, who was born in Vienna in 1941, has been dealing with light and exploring the possibilities of capturing its immaterial appearances in images. She studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and, after encountering works by the ZERO artists, among other things, found monochrome as a pictorial form, which she has continuously developed ever since.
Using various media such as painting, Polaroid photography and digital film, Inge Dick explores the possibilities of making supposedly invisible phenomena such as light and time visible. Her handling of the imaging processes of analogue and digital photography deserves special mention. She uses this to capture the color spectra of natural light and to examine the medium itself for the possibilities and limits of non-representational representations: light as a source of visibility becomes a motif itself here. The artist pursues this concern with particular consistency and innovative strength, which makes her work a fundamentally important contribution to concrete photography.
Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg
Oskar-von-Laredo-Platz 1
97080 Würzburg
