26-07-2008
The Tanit Gallery in Munich, Germany, showed 39 large format images of Bernhard Edmaier. The exhibition has the title 'glacial'. It opened on 6th of June [EXHIBITION TOUR].
About the exhibition:
For the last 15 years Bernhard Edmaier has been taking pictures of the earth predominantly in places where it was formed by natural forces alone over long geological time periods. His aim is to present the manifold structures which the earth created without man`s touch. Edmaier observes the earth with a scientist`s precision - he devulges the aesthetics as well as the fragility of our planet.
His latest project took him to the regions of the world most affected by dwindling ice, which has been caused by the present climatic changes - the permafrost areas of the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Siberia, Iceland and Svalbard, as well as the glaciers of Eastern Greenland and the High Alps. The series of images entitled 'glacial' is a part of it.
The images are counterpoints to the idyllic ice landscapes which, for the time being, serve as icons of the climate change. Edmaier`s pictures are hyper concrete and often abstract at the same time. They show a world which finds itself in a permanent change - between melting and freezing - two typical processes commending enormous creative powers.
In order to present a great variety of shapes and forms of these hardly known corners of the world, the photographer sets a distance - he shoots his images from the air, mostly square and without a visible horizon line. Without this benchmark, the earth becomes a new and fascinating world of criss-crossing patterns.
Opening: 5th of June 2008, 6 till 9 p.m.
Exhibition: 6th of June till 12th of July 2008
Tanit Gallery, Maximiliansstr. 45, 80538 München, phone 0049 89 29 2233
Open from Tuesday till Friday 11 a.m. till 18.30 p.m., on Saturday 11 a.m. till 2 p.m.
