Opening
3rd March 2017 7 pm – 10 pm
Duration of the exhibition
4th March – 14th April 2016
Ending
14th April 6 pm – 9 pm
Performance with artist every Saturday from 3pm – 6 pm
Painting or photography? A question that one would have to answer with Thomas Nitz with “as well as”. Thomas Nitz is sitting between the chairs: his photographs are not smooth motifs of high-gloss magazines. In their haptics from tangible structures they are bound to the painting. Thomas Nitz photographs beyond editions his works are unique.
Since 1992 he has been working as a freelance photographer at the UdK Berlin. He has been working on his special technique of multiple exposures for about 10 years. Before every photography, there is the processing of the underground, using pictorial means. Nitz takes watercolor boxes, which he primates with color and makes light with an emulsion. The manual process is the prerequisite of his works, because every carton is different and unpredictable of the result.
The value of the unique and the uniqueness of the moment, goes hand in hand with the chosen motifs. The series “Kathedralen und Metropolis” shows shopping malls, cathedrals of consumption, the construction boom of the city, utopia and decline.
Today, where images are reproduced infinitely, digitally edited and a thousand times divided, the desire for the genuine, unadulterated picture plays a role again.An instant camera, Thomas Nitz dedicates himself to a traditional street camera, the so-called “Afghan Box Camera”, which he himself has built.
Every Saturday from 3 to 6 pm the artist allows a look behind the scenes and portrays the visitor at the exhibition. The photos are developed directly on site as originals, during which the development process is the center of attention.
Text: Julia Schattauer
Picture: Stern Center #1, 2017, analogue experimental photography, 41 x 41 cm
