Janos Frecot. Péter Nádas

Janos Frecot, Péter Nádas

In 2012, during the 5th European Month of Photography, Kicken Berlin will show a survey of the photographic work of the important German photography curator and historian Janos Frecot. As the founder and long-time director of the photography collection at the Berlinische Galerie, Frecot brought together important works and made them accessible to the public. What many do not know, however, is that Frecot’s first involvement with photography was as a practitioner of the art. A dedicated flaneur, he was enchanted by Berlin and its architecture in the 1960s. Traces of the city’s history were visible on façades and in courtyards; fire walls reveal the silhouettes of buildings that have disappeared, residues of brick and mortar, and advertisements from a bygone era. The series Mauern (Walls), published as a portfolio in 1965, gave Frecot the opportunity to open up a rich realm of visual imagination and to ‘point out aspects of reality which are easily overlooked’.
At the same time Kicken Berlin will present a selection of photography by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas.