Sandra Hastenteufel

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Sandra Hastenteufel (* 1966 in Stuttgart) is a contemporary German artist who works with photography, film, sculpture and painting. She studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. In 2005 she was awarded the Rome Prize by the German Academy Villa Massimo , Rome. For the spring semester of 2006 she was appointed the director of the interdisciplinary "Cornell in Rome Art Program". Her works are part of museum collections mostly in Europe. She has been commissioned to portray artists such as Vladimir Malakhov and Daniel Barenboim, and public figures such as the King and Queen of Thailand.

Sandra Hastenteufel crosses the boundaries of artistic disciplines, and finds connections deeply-embedded in layers of artistic expression. She is not concerned with capturing the moment, but in her art time becomes elastic or even dissolves; accordingly her photographs and videos possess a painterly quality.

This aspect is also apparent in her landscapes (cibachrome photographs, paintings and outdoor installations).

Her plant portraits are original size cibachromes of sprouts in the woods, carefully chosen and shot with great precision, respecting the rules of light and composition of the old master portraitists.

Her interdisciplinary projects reach out to ballet, classical music and opera. Her project Face to Face (Staatsoper Stuttgart /Württembergischer Kunstverein ), brings together Monteverdi's opera, The Coronation of Poppea and the work of the painter Caravaggio . During the initial rehearsals prior to the intellectual refinement of direction, she detected a naturalness in the gestures and expressions of the singers that reminded her of the former painter. Like these two masters Sandra Hastenteufel works in such a way that strips a subject of its superficialities.

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