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Austria as Spain's special guest. Spain as EIKON's special guest.

In February 2006 Austria is the special guest country at one of the most renowned art fairs: Madrid's ARCO. EIKON will join the party, and we will take this occasion to have a closer look at Spain's photography scene in this 52nd issue. Dirk Ufermann introduces some of the main representatives, sums up recent developments and tendencies and gives insight into Spanish photography in the recent past.

One of our main articles is dedicated to the young Spanish artist BLANCA CASAS BRULLET, whose videos take a surprising turn in reflecting the parts of the guest and the host. She visualizes interiorized human relationships and depicts them as active deeds. And what part we play is of no importance, since each of us acts on both sides of the stage that is daily life.

Playing with the documentary pretensions of photography, the claims made of its recording qualities and its aptness for scientific purposes is what fascinates JOAN FONTCUBERTA, who discovers a monastery where monks work wonders and develops surreal landscapes from data that he retrieves from famous landscape paintings and feeds into a computer. With their artificial appearance they may well remind one of Salvador Dalí.

NIN BRUDERMANN also sets off on a tightrope walk between fiction and reality. She tells stories that oscillate between documentary, performance and fantasy, inviting viewers to question the reality of the apparently real by the use of different media. Brudermann actually succeeds in making viewers aware of the possibility of perceiving various realities at the same time in order to discover new worlds.

HIROKO INOUE's works direct our gaze towards the world of an inner reality and towards stories against which we prefer to shut our eyes. With images of closed eyes she virtually prompts us to open ours and to take a conscious look. The photographs she takes of light as it seeps through windows into rooms loaden with a historic past almost become symbols of the act of seeing.

BERNHARD WICKI became one of the most important directors of the post-war era with his film "Die Brücke" (The Bridge). His photographic opus is overshadowed by this success and has only recently enjoyed a posthumous rediscovery. Wicki's fascination with photography was rooted in its confrontation with reality. He sought the quotidian, the accidental, the apparently casual. In contrast with his films, his photographs are never actually staged but rather composed in a willful and unmistakable way. Alongside an extensive exhibition at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne, which will move on to the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum in Wicki's native city Sankt Pölten, EIKON would like to make its own contribution and honour his great opus.

Walter Seidl succeeds Rainer Metzger in our series of interviews concerning the art scene in the new EU member states. He visited the Baltic Triennial of International Art in Vilnius and discussed the evolution of the Baltic art scene with Solvita Krese, director of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Raminta Jurėnaitė, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius.

The final part of this editorial goes out to Spain. We are happy to be able to give our Spanish-speaking readers a hearty welcome to the world of EIKON in their own language.

Es un especial placer presentar a ustedes, nuestra clientela española que quizás todavia no conoce a EIKON, su concepto, y despertar con esta 52. edición su curiosidad y entusiasmo, que podría convertirlos en lectores habituales de nuestra revista:

Desde 1991 la revista EIKON, de publicación trimestral, se dedica a la presentación y el debate de la fotografía austríaca e internacional, así como también su relevancia en el contexto de los nuevos medios y de las artes visuales. Además del enfoque de los medios, se trata de planteos inter y transdisciplinados, para los que EIKON ofrece un foro publicitario. Uno de los principios más importantes es la intensa cooperación con los artistas y su presentación en los así llamados „Artist Pages“. La revista se completa con entrevistas, críticas minuciosas y debates actuales sobre cuestiones teóricas de las artes y los medios. EIKON ya se presenta en forma bilingüe, alemán e inglés, desde la 46. edición.

In the name of the entire EIKON-team I wish all our readers a thrilling and informative trip to the land of photography.

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