Landscapes as projection screens for desires are the overarching theme of the German photographic artist Thomas Wrede (*1963, Lethmate). Since the late 1990s the artist has in various photographic series delved into our – still rather romantically characterised - desire to experience nature. He further questions the truth value and the messages of media images, which are surround us ev...

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Nature became landscape long ago. Since the Romantic period landscape has furthermore been an aesthetic position. But what is landscape for the modern human being ? The thematic exhibition "Open Landscape" provides a juxtaposition of multigenerational photographic and pictorial approaches to this question. The reference point for all participating artists is the real landscape.
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Curator: Bettina Paust

Of great interest today, landscape photography is generally characterised by the horizon as an aid to perception. Within the international discourse on contemporary landscape photography, the present exhibition is the first to focus on those artistic visions which, each in its own way, mask and eliminate the horizon as the line separating earth from sky.

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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 pictures. As in earlier works by Wrede e.g. the Real Landscapes- or Small Worlds series, the artist plays with dimensions as well as different layers of perception and reality. Manhattan Picture Worlds does not use the co...

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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...

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"I see the world as a kind assembly kit, a grand stage, as image and simulacrum." (Thomas Wrede)

With the presentation of Real Landscapes Gallery f5.6, Munich is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Thomas Wrede. His Picture Worlds and Landscapes series brought great attention to his work on national as well as international level. Recently published was the...

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Mit Strange Paradise beweist Thomas Wrede einmal mehr, dass er ein Meister des subtilen, visuellen Vexierspiels zwischen Modell und Wirklichkeit ist. Die wundersame, simulakre Inszenierung von Landschaftsversatzstücken in überhöhten Modellkulissen im Kontrast mit unwirklich anmutenden, entrückten Küstenlandschaften, die das Individuum romantisch miniaturisieren, kreiere...

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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...

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