Rosângela Rennó – Strange Fruits
Fotomuseum Winterthur
09.06.-19.08.2012
The term Appropriation Art in the narrower sense is used when an artist deliberately copies individual works by other artists with a specific creative strategy in mind. This is a form of appropriation that is not considered plagiary but intentional artistic borrowing.

Kurt Blum – The Photographic Oeuvre
Fotostiftung Schweiz
9 June – 14 October 2012
Kurt Blum, born in Berne in 1922, is one of the outstanding Swiss photographers of the post-war era. Starting in the 1950s, he did numerous reportages for newspapers and magazines, alongside free artistic and experimental works which he also publicised in exhibitions.

Jean-Luc Cramatte – Inventory
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
3 March to 28 May 2012
Jean-Luc Cramatte has been preoccupied with the notion of the photographic inventory for almost 20 years. Cramatte was born in Porrentruy in 1959 and is an obsessive image maker and collector – with as much interest in his own photographs as in found images. His explorations of the visible world are always based on wilful concepts that draw our attention to the inconspicuous, to what is often overlooked.

Diane Arbus
Fotomuseum Winterthur
03.03.-28.05.2012
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

CLOUD STUDIES – The Scientific View of the Sky
Fotomuseum Winterthur
26.11.2011-12.02.2012
The English pharmacist and meteorologist Luke Howard wrote in 1802 in the preface to his manuscript On the Modification of Clouds: “Clouds are subject to certain distinct modifications, produced by the general causes which affect all the variations of the atmosphere; they are commonly as good visible indicators of the operation of these causes, as is the countenance of the state of a person’s mind or body.”