Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary Residenzstr. 10/3 D-80333 Munich Allemagne
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary is pleased to present Operational Reality, a solo exhibition of new, large-format photographs by Munich-based artist Thomas Weinberger (born 1964). The show runs from May 30 - July 11, 2008.
Weinberger positions his camera in city spaces and industrial areas. He also selects unusual viewpoints which are unappreciated by our everyday perception. Through an absence of people, the pictures possess a strange emptiness and stillness. Their indefinable gray-blue skies and unclear lighting conditions make it impossible to discern what time of day the images were made. This is also true of more abstract photos such as Hurlyburly, taken in the fall of 2007, which depicts a multi-directional, nonheirarchical, "all-over" pictorial composition of branches and colored leaves.
Using a classic, large-format camera, the artist takes two analog images of the same motive at different times, one during the day and one at night. The two are then laid over one another with the help of a computer. The resulting image is a reality of impossible visual experience in which the light conditions of day and night are compressed into a permanent picture.
The exhibition title Operational Reality refers to the provisional action of physicists who adopt operative models in the mathematical completion of ununderstood phenomena in quantum physics. In this sense, Weinberger understands his day-night photographs as models for capturing space and time. They throw into question an everyday reality experienced as a linear continuum.
With the first public recognition of his work in 2005, former architect Thomas Weinberger has achieved rapid international acclaim. His work has been exhibited in the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brüssel (2007), the Australian Centre for Photography (2007), and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris (2008) and may also be found in private and and public collections worldwide.
A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Mark Gisbourne accompanies the exhibition.