Being at the right place at the right time is usually associated with happiness and success. But what happens when we are at the right place at the wrong time? Do we even know that this is the right place? And what if it turns out that it is the wrong place after all? But the right time!
Whoever loses his orientation over this thought will get a feeling for Robert Rutöd’s latest pictures. The Vienna-born photographer wandered for five years through Europe and has proven to be a keen observer with an often tragicomic view: The blind man who finds orientation by putting his stick in a tram track, the helpless swan that finds itself frozen to the vast stretch of ice, or the amputee operator of a shooting range set up in a ruined building. It gets macabre with the portraits of the Pope, Hitler and Mussolini decorating the labels of wine bottles.
Robert Rutöd puts chance visually back on track. His poetic discoveries read like a perfectly composed fotonovela. The photographer sees his work as an attempt to satisfy our longing for moments away from a thoroughly rationalized world. Moments in life that are still being improvised! Due to the increasing pervasion of instant solutions into all areas of life, the world is sinking into monotony, people are becoming conformist. Robert Rutöd does not observe this phenomenon with a repetitive series of photographs, rather he focuses on those moments in life that do not obey the standard rules. Because nothing is more boring than to picture boredom through boredom.
Robert Rutöd
Born in Vienna, lives in Austria. Photographer and filmmaker. Made numerous short feature films with screenings worldwide. Photographic work exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and Asia.
Right Time Right Place – Robert Rutöd
From September 7th to October 9th, 2012
Galeria Fotografii B&B
ul. 1 Maja 12. Bielsko-Biała
Poland
Tel./fax (33) 81-40-955
E-mail: [email protected]
