ANDRI STADLER " TRAMONTANA"

A cold, gusty wind from the north, flowing over the mountains into the Mediterranean region. This movement forms the starting point for a series of ink works on laid paper and linen, which are shown unframed and in almost nomadic simplicity in the black gallery space. The pictures are based on experimental photographs taken during a journey across the Apennines: "Using the vehicle as a base station, I sought out remote places - landscape zones in which silence, wind, water and stone become the only companions." The camera is not used to depict the landscape. Using mirrors and lenses, he collects light from different points of the compass and directs it into the darkness without a lens. Shadowy overlays, structures and contours emerge from an initially faded white - a subjective pictorial space.

In the studio, these photographs enter into a dialog with ink paintings. The process is reminiscent of the analog darkroom: positive and negative interact, proximity and distance change, spaces open and close. This results in images that oscillate between analysis and playful fantasy and lead the viewer down their own path.

At Galerie Vitrine, these dark, object-like works encounter a completely black exhibition space for the first time - a reversal experiment with an open outcome. Perhaps there is enough light in them to unfold directly in the eye of the beholder.


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