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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 people and atmosphere of everyday life in New York. A "Real-Collage" emerges, in which the different layers of reality are combined to create a tension-filled image which can only exist through photography. In this series the artist again confronts the viewer with questions about reality and appearance, model and truth.
'Manhattan/ Picture Worlds' is the second exhibition in our gallery with works by Thomas Wrede (*1963). Since finishing his studies at the Kunstakademie in Münster in 1992 he has won numerous artistic and photographic prizes. He is also internationally renown.
A photo book will be published.