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After Success at Frieze, Philipp Goldbach Opens Exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art

LONDON.- After sell-out success of his work at the Frieze Art Fair, Annely Juda Fine Art holds the first UK one-man exhibition of the young German artist Philipp Goldbach. The show comprises two linked but independent bodies of work: Blackboards and Micrographs. In his series of Blackboards Goldbach has taken photographs of the chalkboards in various German University rooms in which intellectuals such as Theodor A. Adorno, Martin Heidegger and Carl Friedrich Gauß once taught. The blackboards rubbed blank show only traces of past writings: offering a shadow of the scholarly history they witnessed. The images are not only beautiful representations of an historical object but also raise awareness of the history of intellectual thought, academia and the dissemination of ideas. Micrographs is a series of drawings in which Goldbach has meticulously transcribed in pencil on paper various historical texts (from 19th century