"White was the snow"
Thomas Wrede
BECK & EGGELING
Beck & Eggeling Bilker Straße 5 40213 Dusseldorf
Tel.: +49 (0) 2114 91 58 90 Fax: +49 (0) 2114 91 58 99 e-mail:
Multiple location : Wien Dusseldorf
2 September > 29 October, 2022
BECK & EGGELING will be showing the exhibition »Weiß war der Schnee« (White was the Snow) with photographs of Thomas Wrede's glacier project from 2nd September until 29th October 2022 at Bilker Straße 4-6 in Düsseldorf.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a reading by film and theatre actress Verena Buss with texts and fairy tales about glaciers and ice on 5 October 2022 at 7 pm. (registration required)
The boundaries of staging and reality have always been in a tense relationship in Thomas Wrede's photography. Landscapes are his main subject: here he is concerned with constructions that he seeks out in nature or that he recreates, as in his series of 'Real Landscapes'. The former began with one of his earliest series ‚Samsö' from the 1990s: mountains of plastic sheets on the Danish island of the same name, which develop an oppressive beauty in nature in atmospheric black-and-white photography.
With his latest series of glacier pictures, Thomas Wrede takes up this aspect and finds stagings in the Alpine mountains in which man has played a decisive role. The starting idea of his glacier photography is the wrapped landscape. To counteract the melting of the glaciers, the ice is covered over large areas - temporarily or permanently. These presented stagings are an interplay of the weathered fleece covers and the visible consequences of the rapid melting of the ice caused by climate change. The artist is not interested in documenting this process - the result of his artistic examination of the glaciers are disturbingly beautiful images. As in Wrede's earlier groups of works, the series of glacier pictures thus lies motivically between idyll and catastrophe.
The series began in 2017 with photographs taken on the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland. Here there are both exterior views 'outside' and interior shots 'inside' the glacier cave there. The weathered covers - dirty andblow...
The exhibition will be accompanied by a reading by film and theatre actress Verena Buss with texts and fairy tales about glaciers and ice on 5 October 2022 at 7 pm. (registration required)
The boundaries of staging and reality have always been in a tense relationship in Thomas Wrede's photography. Landscapes are his main subject: here he is concerned with constructions that he seeks out in nature or that he recreates, as in his series of 'Real Landscapes'. The former began with one of his earliest series ‚Samsö' from the 1990s: mountains of plastic sheets on the Danish island of the same name, which develop an oppressive beauty in nature in atmospheric black-and-white photography.
With his latest series of glacier pictures, Thomas Wrede takes up this aspect and finds stagings in the Alpine mountains in which man has played a decisive role. The starting idea of his glacier photography is the wrapped landscape. To counteract the melting of the glaciers, the ice is covered over large areas - temporarily or permanently. These presented stagings are an interplay of the weathered fleece covers and the visible consequences of the rapid melting of the ice caused by climate change. The artist is not interested in documenting this process - the result of his artistic examination of the glaciers are disturbingly beautiful images. As in Wrede's earlier groups of works, the series of glacier pictures thus lies motivically between idyll and catastrophe.
The series began in 2017 with photographs taken on the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland. Here there are both exterior views 'outside' and interior shots 'inside' the glacier cave there. The weathered covers - dirty andblow...
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