The Keyboard Player, 2013 
Clegg & Guttmann
Digital print on paper
70 x 50 cm
Edition of 25 
 Poster signed on back
Euro 300 incl. VAT

With their photographic portraiture Clegg & Guttmann draw on the aesthetic conventions of 16th and 17th Century portrait painting – from Frans Hals to Rembrandt, and Tizian to Caravaggio. They examine codes of power relations, staging individuals in environments that indicate their cultural, economic and social backgrounds. The Keyboard Player features Austrian musician Philipp Quehenberger.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Collaborative and commissioned portraits, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck; Porträts – Modalitäten und Variationen, DKW Brandenburg Kunstmuseum, Cottbus (2013); Portraits commandés / refusés, Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest; Humiliation; Portraits and Other Cognitive Exercises 2001 - 2012, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (2012); Monument of Monuments: Indoor and outdoor discussions around the Open Debate Station, GFLK Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg (2011)

Clegg & Guttmann were born in 1957 and live and work in New York, Berlin and Vienna.