Christian Vogt: From the series “Photographic Notes”, 1981-2009
© Christian Vogt / ProLitteris
Vogt has remained true to himself. In his artistic work over the last forty years he has continued to explore and give new form to the relationship between visible reality and its photographic reproduction, between image and text, between looking and knowing. With great creative invention he pushes his oeuvre forward in series and cycles, the importance of their conceptual development being equal to the actual creation of the imagery. His works repeatedly revolve around similar themes: the representation of time and space, the relationships of elements to each other, the changes of these relationships and of places over a period of time, simultaneity and duration, text and image. Polarities converge building areas of tension in which events or coincidences suddenly occur and condense into enigmatic images.
