Torsten Warmuth
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« At the End of Time » by Torsten Warmuth
The works are currently on view in the solo exhibition “Recapturing Freedom | Die Rückeroberung der Freiheit” at Haus am Kleistpark Berlin.
At the End of Time
In his most recent cycle of work “At the End of Time” Torsten Warmuth examines the prospect of mankind’s ever closer approaching destruction of civilisation. His works become symbols of a chain of catastrophes that seem unstoppable if we make no protest against them. And yet Warmuth – paradoxical as this may seem – visualises the strikingly beautiful aspects of our world behind its deconstruction. Images of an era heralding the end time.
The accentuated dynamism of the motifs, the blurring of movement, and the multiple superimposition of individual photographic fragments are all stylistically ... - Exposition
TORSTEN WARMUTH - Belle de nuit
The day is light, the night is twilight. As early as 1857, Charles Baudelaire wrote in his poem Le Crépuscule du soir of man's guise which would morph, animal-like, under the "black curtain" of night. Darkness, it is the place of trap doors and two faces.
The theme of darkness (twilight), the magical time before the break of dawn, pervades the work of the photographic artist, TORSTEN WARMUTH (b.1968, in Hildburghausen). In 2006, the museum Kunsthalle Erfurt presented WARMUTHs' series Nachtsammler/ Night Gatheres - a 19-piece work that reveals the people of Argentina's Buenos Aires as they gradually succumb to the shadowy existence of the capital's pallid light of night.
With Belle de nuit TORSTEN WARMUTH again reaches out to this world of the darkness, but, this time, he shifts his focus. In this pho... - Exposition
Torsten Warmuth - It's a Man's World
Torsten Warmuth sets out in search of the unmistakable face of the world's metropolises. Previously, this was in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Paris or New York, and now in Africa's biggest city: Cairo. It is urban life beyond the tourist destinations that shapes the face of a city. In Cairo, a metropolis of twenty million, Torsten Warmuth found this in the bazaars of Khan-el-Khalilil, the traffic-filled street of Talaat Harb in the traditional commercial and banking district, and in the cavas (coffee houses) on Midan Sayeda-Aisha, not far from the "city of the dead", Imam Al-Shafi'i. Torsten Warmuth employs a large-format camera to visually isolate fractions of a second. With rigorous precision, the artist exercises, seeks and composes - like an alchemist - light and shade; in "It's a Man's World", he stalls the movement of pa...
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The works are currently on view in the solo exhibition “Recapturing Freedom | Die Rückeroberung der Freiheit” at Haus am Kleistpark Berlin.
At the End of Time
In his most recent cycle of work “At the End of Time” Torsten Warmuth examines the prospect of mankind’s ever closer approaching destruction of civilisation. His works become symbols of a chain of catastrophes that seem unstoppable if we make no protest against them. And yet Warmuth – paradoxical as this may seem – visualises the strikingly beautiful aspects of our world behind its deconstruction. Images of an era heralding the end time.
The accentuated dynamism of the motifs, the blurring of movement, and the multiple superimposition of individual photographic fragments are all stylistically ...
The day is light, the night is twilight. As early as 1857, Charles Baudelaire wrote in his poem Le Crépuscule du soir of man's guise which would morph, animal-like, under the "black curtain" of night. Darkness, it is the place of trap doors and two faces.
The theme of darkness (twilight), the magical time before the break of dawn, pervades the work of the photographic artist, TORSTEN WARMUTH (b.1968, in Hildburghausen). In 2006, the museum Kunsthalle Erfurt presented WARMUTHs' series Nachtsammler/ Night Gatheres - a 19-piece work that reveals the people of Argentina's Buenos Aires as they gradually succumb to the shadowy existence of the capital's pallid light of night.
With Belle de nuit TORSTEN WARMUTH again reaches out to this world of the darkness, but, this time, he shifts his focus. In this pho...
Torsten Warmuth sets out in search of the unmistakable face of the world's metropolises. Previously, this was in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Paris or New York, and now in Africa's biggest city: Cairo. It is urban life beyond the tourist destinations that shapes the face of a city. In Cairo, a metropolis of twenty million, Torsten Warmuth found this in the bazaars of Khan-el-Khalilil, the traffic-filled street of Talaat Harb in the traditional commercial and banking district, and in the cavas (coffee houses) on Midan Sayeda-Aisha, not far from the "city of the dead", Imam Al-Shafi'i. Torsten Warmuth employs a large-format camera to visually isolate fractions of a second. With rigorous precision, the artist exercises, seeks and composes - like an alchemist - light and shade; in "It's a Man's World", he stalls the movement of pa...