Thomas Kellner at VisuleX Gallery in Hamburg
Moving Monuments in der VisuleX gallery in Hamburg
On September 28, the VisuleX Gallery for Photography in Hamburg opened the exhibition “Moving Monuments. Thomas Kellner - Black & White”. The exhibition presents black and white tableaux of well-known monuments from 1997 to 2005, framing a selection of his striking color photographs. These include, for the first time, the night photograph of the Empire State Building in New York. With “Black & White”, Thomas Kellner returns to his artistic roots and the tradition of black and white photography.
At a time when many artists are turning back to black and white photography, Thomas Kellner is also looking back to his roots ten years later. The few published works in black and white reflect the beginnings of Kellner's career, when he experimented in cycles with different visual languages in the black and white laboratory until he finally found his unique, multi-perspective and deconstructivist visual language in 1997: the composite image either as multiple exposures on a negative (1993-1998) or as a sequential montage on a contact sheet of a 35mm film.
From an initial sketch of the Eiffel Tower as an homage to Robert Delaunay and Orphism in Paris, Kellner began to turn to architecture and increasingly complex compositions. He created timeless images of iconic buildings in a newly formulated language based on Cubism. In his early black and white photographs, Kellner concentrated on the structure itself. The relationship between object and pictorial form is at the center of his observation.
In the exhibition “Moving Monuments”, world-famous monuments from San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris and other major cities radiate a new fascination in black and white. The artist is also showing selected large-format works in color, such as an impressive photograph of the Empire State Building.
Parallel to the sales exhibition in Hamburg, the Oldenburg State Museum is showing the exhibition Thomas Kellner Sights from September 28, 2024 to January 12, 2025.
Information about Thomas Kellner at VisuleX Gallery in Hamburg
Thomas Kellner. Moving Monuments. Black & White
September 28 - October 19, 2024
VisuleX Gallery for Photography, Hamburg, Germany
VisuleX Gallery for Photography
Loogestrasse 6
20249 Hamburg, Germany
+49 151 2712 5471
info@visulex.net
