In February, the Rhine-Sieg Region already awarded the photo artist Herbert Döring-Spengler the Rheinischer Kunstpreis (Rhineland Art Prize), which is given every two years to important figures in contemporary art. However, due to the Corona pandemic, neither a physical award presentation nor an embedding of the exhibition of his work could take place during that winter. Initially, the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis therefore honored the artist with a film. With the exhibition »Egal, wie du es siehst, ich sehe es anders.« (»No matter how you see it, I see it differently.«) based on Döring-Spengler's book of the same title, the form of recognition that should have been given to him nine months ago is now taking place at the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn from October 28, 2021.
Döring-Spengler's creative focus is the Polaroid – he uses it as a basic surface and continues to shape it in many ways. To do so, he delves into the chemical processes of development, abstracts and alienates the medium of the photograph to such an extent that it is sometimes no longer recognizable as such. The results are not necessarily entirely abstract, but move along a fine line between abstraction and expressive figuration. Also at the center of the Cologne-born artist's main oeuvre are his diazetta – a creation of his own that is a combination of slide and gazette. The image collages were created from overlapping newspaper clippings in the 1980s – they reflect political events on the one hand and function as surreal random shots on the other.
The exhibition can be visited until January 23, 2022. 
