Cervical Mucus Cycle Day 19

Christian Schad schadografie

siafferma when Serner This position, distancing himself from the group riunitoattorno at the Cabaret Voltaire, These Hugo Ball and Richard Huelsenbeckcome two rebel youth and judges them harshly on propriarivista, for their " Blasphème impardonnable contrel'intelligence " ¹ , accusing them of "if Livreri à de pures singeries, au lieu deproposer a veritable alternative à ce qu'ils veulent détruire " 2.

Schad, close to its positions and Serner antinichiliste, sitiene relatively aloof from the activities Dadaist, nonapprezzando "studied the attitudes and noise" ³ , even though his invention of photography without a camera will be claimed as dasubito Dadaist practice.

The "discovery" of schadografia

From 1916 Schad sistabilisce in Geneva: "We were a small minority costituivaper the two warring parties a group of outsiders and diguastafeste. We actively participate in the Dada movement soprattuttodipingendo, doing surveys, wood and Schadografie , termineconiato by Tristan Tzara " 4.

The dispute which saw treartisti-Christian Schad, Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy-compete for the "discovery" of the photograph without photographic camera, you èconclusa today in favor of Christian Schad ⁵ . These, perhaps influenced by Serner, built in 1918, or piùprobabilmente in 1919, in his studio in Geneva, primiesperimenti of this type. Superimposing, on sheets of cartafotosensibile, pieces of paper or fabric items " trouvés ," and exposing them to a light source or veiled diafframata ⁶ , gets very specific image: the effect is immaterial dicollage 7. " Serner salue dancces abstraites images, la fin de la technique dans l'art as well " ⁸ .

" The in procedimentoconsiste take photographs without a camera. Sidispongono object on a sensitive surface (plate or paper) and they are exposed to a source of light. In a nutshell this is ilprocedimento, but its applications are many. It trattasoltanto to choose items and place them in a way that nerisulti a statement. The taste is decisive. Even here in puòcadere vulgarity. In my opinion you should use sologli objects which retain a magical quality. And this is also true simple " ⁹ .

Inrealtà the technique of so-called frame, was not "invented" by Schad, but known by different titles, Erastus practiced after the debut of photography on paper, photography daipionieri Thomas Wedgwood, at the very beginning delXIX century, and William Henry Fox Talbot, who had called photogenic drawing . Throughout the nineteenth century the picture without an inner, called photocalque , photo directe , naturselbstduck , was used especially for scientific or recreational ¹⁰ . The true invention Christian Schad nell'irruzione this front lies in the art technique.
Comeil montage entering forcefully into the language deldadaismo Berlin with the intention of making satirapolitica and with a view to reject the "value" aesthetic, has revolutionized the relationship between word and image and between words and reality ¹¹ ; components of the operation of the photo without camera vannorintracciate basically in two research esteticadel last century: in Cubist collage and the importance that photography and cinema assumononel constructivism. The new expressions, eCinema consists of photographs, should be viewed from entirely new relationship established between the Russian constructivism and art technique leading to a trasferimentodi interest from the field of visual art that dellafotografia. Moholy-Nagy's photography and nelcinema to finding the best opportunity to produce the forms "nuoverelazioni hitherto unknown" ¹² .
The schadografia , or frame, is seen as the extreme sviluppodelle potential of Cubist collage.

1 W. SERNER, 1916 in Dada, exhibition catalog, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005. p. 102

2 Ibid

3 C. SCHAD

4 C. SCHAD

5 Q. Bajac in Dada, exhibition catalog, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005. p. 866

6 G. LIST, (ed.), Dada, the art of denial , exhibition catalog edited by Giovanni Lista, Rome, Palazzo Exhibition, 1994. p.362

7 TO HOCKENSMITH in Dada, exhibition catalog, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005. p. 864

8 Ibid

9 C. SCHAD, (description of the method of Schadografie from a letter to Helmut Gernsheim, August 1960); in Christian Schad, exhibition catalog edited by Bettina Schad, Milan, Galleria Schwarz, 1970. p. 22

10 Q. Bajac in Dada, exhibition catalog, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2005. p. 866

11 J. NIGRO Covre The German art in the twentieth century, Carocci 1998. pp. 104-106

12 L. Moholy-Nagy, in J. NIGRO Covre The German art in the twentieth century, Carocci, 1998, p. 107