Torsten Warmuth

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Torsten Warmuth, photographed by Benedikt Brandhofer

Torsten Warmuth (born April 3, 1968 in Hildburghausen , Thuringia ) is a German contemporary visual artist .

Career

After graduating from high school in Erfurt , Warmuth completed a degree in natural sciences. In 1996 he decided against a university career and turned entirely to photographic art.

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At the center of Warmuth's work is the anonymous person in his urban environment. Warmuth sees the modern city as a stage for fragile moments and fleeting constellations. Early series such as New Walk (1998) and Stadtwolf (2000) document his preference for the photographic experiment. His photographically produced, sharp work is rich in optical blurring and substantial inaccuracies. With his long and multiple exposures, he tries to give the viewer the impression that the figures in his pictures are beginning to expand or even begin to dissolve.

The photo historian Enno Kaufhold sees in Warmuth's pictures a meeting of different moments that “take place both in different places and at different times. And as far as the moments are concerned, longer exposure times mean that they are shown in their continuum rather than in a short-term cut "

Numerous works in recent years have been based on cities such as Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Cairo or New York. Ralf Hanselle writes about the series It's a Man's World (2007) created in Cairo : “Like the great flaneurs of the fin de siècle, Torsten Warmuth also explores the urban stone deserts as an optical expedition. Like her, he understands urban space as the extreme of modernity. ”Torsten Warmuth received the 2008 Art Prize for Photography from the Land Brandenburg Lotto GmbH for the It's a Man's World cycle .

In 2009 Warmuth developed the Silver Painting . In addition to the use of light, a wide variety of toners are applied by hand to silver gelatine paper. The processes used are based exclusively on analog methods. As a result of the manual design, unique items are created. Silver painting differs significantly from photography in its non-reproducibility and painterly appearance. These are always hand-made, mostly large-format and multi-toned gelatin silver prints that he produces using classic analog darkroom processes.

Since 2012, Warmuth has increasingly devoted himself to color work with abstraction and expression, which he calls Elusionistic Art .

Stage background

In September 2010 Warmuth contributed his Silver Paintings as background elements in the production of the legend of the holy drinker by Joseph Roth at Theater Basel . The production was done by Elias Perrig , with Peter Schröder playing the main role .

Exhibitions

  • 2013 Reclaiming Freedom , Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
  • 2009 Sex, Power & Money , Everard Read, Cape Town
  • 2008 The Last Woman , Galerie Brusberg , Berlin
  • 2007 It's a Man's World , Anna Augstein Fine Arts
  • 2006 Night collector , Galerie Mamia Bretesché, Paris (also Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin and Kunsthalle Erfurt )
  • 2004 Torsten Warmuth , Jena Art Collections
  • 2004 About Face - Photography and the Death of the Portrait , Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2004 Je t'envisage - La disparition du portrait / The Disappearance of the Portrait , Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne
  • 2003 Cara a Cara / Face to Face , Culturgest, Lisbon
  • 2002 Zanikanie / Disappearing , Warsaw Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
  • 2001 In Disappearance , Galerie Seitz & Partner Berlin
  • 1998 New Walk , Eastside Gallery, Kassel

literature

  • Kai Uwe Schierz: Photographic Stream of Consciousness . In: Catalog torsten warmuth , ed. Kunstsammlungen Jena, 2004, pp. 36–37.
  • Erik Stephan: Time leap. The stretch of the moment . In: Catalog torsten warmuth , ed. Kunstsammlungen Jena, 2004, pp. 4–5.
  • Sabine Maria Schmidt: Photographs as images . In: Catalog Night Collectors | Night Gatherers , Ed. Kunsthalle Erfurt, 2006, p. 5.
  • Ralf Hanselle: The Great Flaneur . In TAKE on art , Volume 1, Issue 1/2010, New Delhi, pp. 46–47.
  • Robert Shore: Post-Photography. The artist with a camera. Laurence King Publishing, London 2014, pp. 208-211.

Filmography

  • Interview with the art historian Enno Kaufhold in a TV report for Stilbruch , RBB-Fernsehen from November 8, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enno Kaufhold: Heart breaks, images move . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 30, 2000, p. BS 1.
  2. ↑ Ralf Hanselle: From the depths of the dream - photography and strolling: Torsten Warmuth opens up the metropolises as fleeting phenomena . In: Photonews , issue 11/2007, pp. 12-13
  3. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Adalbert Siniawski: intermediate digital and darkroom . In: Deutschlandfunk CORSO from May 25, 2015
  5. ↑ ( artist information on the exhibition )
personal data
SURNAME Warmuth, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen