LËT’Z ARLES

ROMAIN URHAUSEN

IN HIS TIME

Espace Van Gogh

Prolific but little known in France, Luxembourg photographer Romain Urhausen stands out for his singular style extending between the French humanist school and the German subjective school of the 1950s and 1960s, to which he actively contributed. His tinged with humor photographs, often a pretext for formal and poetic exploration, go beyond a classic depiction of reality. The exhibition shows how Urhausen took an experimental approach to daily life, working men, the cityscape, the nude and the self-portrait. The subjective aesthetic he learned from Otto Steinert influenced his formal language, treatment of contrasts, framing and way of seeing the world differently. The show highlights this vision, setting up a dialogue between Urhausen’s photographs and those of his peers by creating new “elective affinities”.

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Exhibition curator: Paul di Felice.
Exhibition produced by Lët’z Arles, in collaboration with the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg.
Publication: Romain Urhausen, delpire & co, 2022.