Title: “Gallery” (series) Rebecca Horn at the Hayward Gallery, London, 2005.
“Seeing implies distance.” – Maurice Blanchot.
We live in a world of images, including images of images, ad infinitum.
As individuals we are always self-consciously the protagonists of our own lives.
When experiencing any type of artform, we seem to transcend to a higher level of awareness and understanding.
The visual stimuli or sounds take over by activating our senses.
This quality of engagement brings us out of ourselves – where we become spectators, irretrievably connected to that with which we are engaged.
Sandra Rottmann 2006
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SANDRA ROTTMANN (b.1951) Peruvian-born American.
Since her thesis exhibition, Dogology at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in 1997, Sandra Rottmann was commissioned to produce El Arte Comunica I: Las Esculturas de Marina Núñez del Prado (also 1997), and has had three solo exhibitions, The Family Picnic Down By the Riverside (Washington, D.C., 1998), and Qosqo: El Ombligo del Mundo – The Navel of the World (1999, Washington, D.C. and 2001, Cusco, Perú). She has participated in 55 group exhibitions, in Washington, New York City, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Lima, Cusco, and Chile. Curators for these exhibitions have included Philip Brookman, Deborah Willis, Kathleen Ewing, Gary Sangster, Ana María Escallón, Joe Mills, Lillian Fitzgerald, and Colby Caldwell.
Her photographs have been published in Spain, Italy, Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the USA. Her work is included in the permanent collections of The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the U.S. Department of State, Instituto de Arte Fotográfico, Fundación de Marina Núñez del Prado, and in very many private collections in the USA, France, Mexico, England and Peru. She has also won awards, given lectures, served as a guest curator, and has been a crucial figure in the annual “Art for Life” exhibition/auction to raise money to benefit the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington (as organizer and curator). Sandra Rottmann received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), Summa Cum Laude, at the Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, D.C.
