Josef Schulz was born in 1966 in Bischofsburg, Poland. He attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was taught by Bernd Becher and Thomas Ruff. Currently he as an exhibit of large-scale color photographs at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. The series is titled Form, and it is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. According to NY Art Beat, “The works begin as traditional, analogue photographs of halls, factories and storage facilities taken with a large-format camera. Images of common, mass-produced, industrial structures are then stripped of any individualizing elements through digital manipulation.” Schulz is careful to remove any logos or signs of wear, as well as doors and windows, turning these modern structures into “idealized versions of their original design concepts, without context or scale” (NY Art Beat). Removing these elements also removes whatever function or use these buildings could have, thereby reducing the buildings to “relationships between color, shape and form” (NY Art Beat). Schulz is careful to include a wide array of colors in his photographs, some which are so bright and sterile that his photos almost look they were digitally simulated.
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http://www.josefschulz.de/sachliches_index.htm
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