To start off a cooperation between Henn Gallery, Munich and Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, the German photographer Thomas Wrede (*1963) will show works from his series Manhattan Picture Worlds. The Vernissage will be on Thursday, 4th March, 7 p.m. at Henn Gallery, Augustenstrasse 54 in Munich, with introductory words by Dr. Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Head of Department Photography and New Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Wrede has photographed oversized advertisements in the centre of New York City between the years 2003 and 2008, which he treats as incorporated elements of architecture in his...

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Brohm/Ottersbach - Culatra/Areal

The project Culatra/Areal was born out of an intense dialogue between two artists. When Joachim Brohm and Heribert Ottersbach first had the idea of collaborating in June 2007, they had known and appreciated each other's work for many years. Both were intrigued by a certain aspect of the other's oeuvre: Ottersbach by Brohm's Areal series of photogtaphs, Brohm by Ottersbach's Culatra paintings.

Brohm works in the great tradition of American photographers devoted to the art of documenting ordinary subject matter and urban landscapes. He was among the first in the late 1970's to in...

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We cordially invite you to the opening of our exhibition 'Manhattan/ Picture Worlds' by the photographic artist Thomas Wrede on Thursday, 5th of March 2009 at 7pm on Bilker Straße 4-6.

With this series, never before shown publicly, the artist succeeds once again in expressing the subject of ambiguity. During six years Thomas Wrede took photographs of huge billboards in the New Yorker district of Manhattan, which for him constitute significant architectural elements of this fast moving metropolis. He skillfully contrasts the ideals presented by advertising with the realism of the street by capturing with his camera the...

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