Oliver Johannes Uhrig‘s work is about “the intervention of the human race into nature and the intervention of a society in human’s nature”.
On his website he shows extremely interesting and diversified works out of photography, sculpture and graphic design. Absolutely worth seeing!
After getting quite away from the original idea and as the title “dorfjugend” then created some confusions I decided to change it into “no way home“.
To recall what this project is about, please read the following statement.
“After years of travelling around and living in various german and european cities, I got tired of the hectic pace and anonimity and reached back to the little town I grew up in, situated in the very south of Germany, hoping to experience again the feeling of security and nearness of my youth. Same town, same house, old friends…basically nothing’s been different than before.
But that’s been exactly the problem: nothing had changed but me.The farer and longer I got away the more my emotional bonds seemed to vanish – I did actually feel close to some people and places but, for the most part, that has been called for beautiful memories.
Right now I almost felt like a stranger as there was almost nothing to give to eachother and even less to say. All of a sudden that town again seemed to be too narrow, too tiny for me to live in and I realised that coming back was the wrong way and that I feel much more comfortable in a place where I’ve got all the possibilities wide open.”
all images © stefan hobmaier
Today I visited Michael Schmidt’s exhibition Grau als Farbe, Fotografien bis 2009 at Haus der Kunst.
In that extensive retrospective there are being shown images from 16 series of one of the most imortant German photographers, reaching from Ein-heit to Frauen to Waffenruhe.
These pictures aren’t hanging in a chronological order though – Michael Schmidt himself developed that way of presentation to create a dialogue between the serie and to show new coherencies and associations to the spectator.
With the help of this hang he manages it excellently. If you want to see the almost 400 original copies, of which a third has never been shown, you should take some time and the patience to get into the works.
The exhibition is still open until 22nd of August. Admission is 8 euros and 6 at a reduced price.
from now on there’s a category called “exhibition sunday” that informs about at least one exhibition in the Munich area each and every sunday. Main focus would be on photography of course, but I’ll try to include other art forms from time to time…
My first spot has been the exhibiton “Landschaft I-IV” in “Galerie der Künstler” of the BBK (Maximilianstr. 42).
14 artists are dealing with different phenomenons of a city. The works relate to four subcategories that are called arcadias, uncommon places, mobility and the art of being at home.
That way a very interesting mix of different styles of fotografie, installation, illustration and video occur.
Among others Sebastian Arlt, Daniel Schüßler, Beate Engl and Thomas Neumann take part.
Wer die Ausstellung sehen will, muss sich beeilen, da sie nur noch bis 23.07. geht!
Öffnungszeiten Mittwoch, Freitag bis Sonntag 11-18 Uhr, Donnerstag 11-20 Uhr. Eintritt 3 Euro, ermäßigt 1,50.
Von München nach Barcelona und aus Spanien wieder zurück.
Dies ist der Versuch eines Brückenschlags zwischen meinen langjährigen Heimatstädten und den jeweiligen Fotografieszenen.
This is a blog about photography in my long-term hometowns Munich and Barcelona and sometimes the rest of Spain. (for posts in english please check below)
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