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Multisectional
Works
In 1987/88 Roger Lips shifted his processing techniques from the mechanical
enzymatic method to more of an original photographic one, as in the extreme
detail enlargement, reversal of tone values, multiple exposures, the color
shifts under artificial lighting as well as the use of the special screen
characteristics from Polaroid’s instant slide material.
Two triptychs with more of a religious archaic content were done in the middle
of the ’80s. In 1987/88 Lips took a few older photographs and organized
them into strict groupings of two each. Photos that were barely changed
from earlier trips are placed next to detail enlargements or printed tracks
of light on B/W negative material. In photos where faces appear, they
are much less re-worked than when Lips did work in the previous years.
It appears as if where Lips had previously laid layers on top of one another,
he now sets them next to each other and the coalescence, the “more” that
comes
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| SB 035 |
SB 036 |
SB 037 |
| Without
title (Triptych I), 1986/90 |
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| SB 061 |
SB 062 |
| Both
without titles, 1983/88 |
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| SB 067 |
SB 068 |
| Both
without titles, 1984/91 |
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| SB 063 |
SB 064 |
| Both
without titles, 1985/86/88 |
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| SB 074 |
SB 075 |
| Both
without titles, 1988 |
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| SB 087 |
SB 088 |
| Both
without titles, 1988/91 |
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| SB 055 |
| Without
title, 1987/88 |
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| SB 143 |
SB 145 |
SB 144 |
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All without title, 1991 |
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| SB 096 |
SB 098 |
SB 097 |
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Conserver Sex links, Oben sowie als auch unten, Conserver Sex
rechts, (Artificial „canned“ sex (left), above as well as below,
artificial „canned“ sex (right)), all 1992 |
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| SB 238 |
SB 239 |
SB 240 |
| All
without titles (Tumi and Janis), 1992/93 |
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about in the association of pictures, is transferred to the mind of the
beholder.
In 1991 three illuminated display cases were made. All three dealt with
the complete de-construction of a picture from 1985, the “blue head” (No.
020). A year later the “AIDS Triptychs” followed, an accusation with a bitter moral
running through it of the homosexual approach in sex, love and physicalness.
As a positive counter-picture to these references is the last triptych
in this connection – pictures of a free dance by two men.
By clicking on the pictures you can get large-scale reproductions with a bit
of further information. The numbers are the numbers in the Catalogue of
Artwork. You can scroll back and forth when you are at the large reproductions
level.
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| SB 065 |
SB 066 |
| Both
without titles, 1984/88 |
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| SB 083 |
SB 084 |
| Both
without titles, 1984/85/88 |
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| SB 069 |
SB 070 |
| Both
without titles, ca. 1988 |
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| SB 089 |
SB 090 |
| Both
without titles, 1988/89 |
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| SB 092 |
SB 093 |
| Both
without titles, 1989/91 |
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| SB 057 |
| Without
title, 1988 |
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| SB 100 |
SB 102 |
SB 101 |
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All without title, 1991/92 |
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| SB 103 |
SB 104 |
| Without
title (J. T.), 1993, Without title (Chr. R.), 1993 |
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