Laurenz Berges: Installation Sentimentale
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf presents Laurenz Berges - Installation Sentimentale, a selection of new photographic works by the artist, to mark the start of the 2023 Frankfurt gallery season. His series of works Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach was shown in 2023 as Laurenz Berges. Maintaining and Disappearing at the Museum f眉r Gegenwartskunst Siegen and was presented to the public for the first time. An extensive publication accompanied that exhibition.
Laurenz Berges is known for his works lying in the area of tension between documentary sobriety and melancholy. Marked by an atmosphere of change and abandonment, his pictorial narratives reveal the absent.
In this 45-part series, the artist captures the traces of past lives. The uninhabited Becherhaus in Mudersbach provides the setting: During the course of a considerable period of time, Berges familiarizes himself with all the facets of this house and documents the intimacy of its unchanged state. The title of the exhibition Installation Sentimentale picks up on the special presence of the photographs, whose motifs seem like installations.
It is the details of the captured sections of space that make the past tangible, contoured by the light of different times of the day and seasons. The melancholy in Berges' works is neither transfiguring nor romanticizing. The artist鈥檚 visual language of form is characterized by a clarity that defies modern demands for ready answers and quick readability instead pursuing an exploration of meaning.
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Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf presents Laurenz Berges - Installation Sentimentale, a selection of new photographic works by the artist, to mark the start of the 2023 Frankfurt gallery season. His series of works Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach was shown in 2023 as Laurenz Berges. Maintaining and Disappearing at the Museum f眉r Gegenwartskunst Siegen and was presented to the public for the first time. An extensive publication accompanied that exhibition.
Laurenz Berges is known for his works lying in the area of tension between documentary sobriety and melancholy. Marked by an atmosphere of change and abandonment, his pictorial narratives reveal the absent.
In this 45-part series, the artist captures the traces of past lives. The uninhabited Becherhaus in Mudersbach provides the setting: During the course of a considerable period of time, Berges familiarizes himself with all the facets of this house and documents the intimacy of its unchanged state. The title of the exhibition Installation Sentimentale picks up on the special presence of the photographs, whose motifs seem like installations.
It is the details of the captured sections of space that make the past tangible, contoured by the light of different times of the day and seasons. The melancholy in Berges' works is neither transfiguring nor romanticizing. The artist鈥檚 visual language of form is characterized by a clarity that defies modern demands for ready answers and quick readability instead pursuing an exploration of meaning.
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