ADRIAN SAUER – LOOKING AT THE WINDOW
2014-03-03Whether romanticized, abstract, or with the mien of a toxic cloud – the photographs of the sky that Adrian Sauer showes for the first time in Madrid give free rein to our yearning for sumptuous images.
The photographs are more than just the result of the artist’s daily ritual of pointing his camera upward to capture weather phenomena. The cloud motif provides a chance to reflect on the visual and technical qualities of photography itself. With a second, critical look, the paradoxes appear. The clouds are the subject of the images, yet they are without object. Without proportional reference points or perspective, any attempt to read scale or ratio in them is pointless. But the panel format overtaxes the resolution of the digital compact camera. So Adrian Sauer’s skies, seen up close, disintegrate into millions of millimeter-sized pixels.
Opposite – 20.09.2013, 2013
Exhibition runs through to March 22nd, 2014
Galería Helga de Alvear
Doctor Fourquet, 12
28012 Madrid
Spain
