THOMAS STRUTH
Bleibtreustraße 45, 10623 Berlin
3 March – 21 May 202
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition with new work by Thomas Struth at the gallery spaces in Bleibtreustraße 45 and Bleibtreustraße 15/16 in Berlin.
Revolving around universal questions of our time with a focus on Science, Nature and Portraiture, three major themes from Thomas Struth’s current bodies of work are shown across the two gallery locations in Bleibtreustraße.
The first-floor space in Bleibtreustraße 45 is dedicated to photographs taken at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The world’s largest scientifc facility near Geneva carries out research into the origins of the universe with the help of particle accelerators. Struth’s interest in CERN lies in the philosophical questions, the political dimensions and the pictorial possibilities offered by advanced technology. Do these highly complex conglomerates of cables and valves bear the hope for a better future? The CERN cluster displayed here forms part of Struth’s "Nature and Politics", a body of work which he has developed since 2007, examining how ambition and human imagination become sculptural, spatial realities.
Surrounded by the images of technology, the viewer comes across works which deal with nature. A central room is dedicated to a winter landscape entitled "Schlichter Weg, Feldberger Seenlandschaft 2021", with an expansive dimension of 220 x 450 cm. The photograph shows a view of an ordinary country road in Mecklenburg, with which Struth has familiarised himself over the last two years of enforced isolation. Themes such as loneliness, mortality and survival resonate in the landscape’s ambiguity. The profusion of branches underneath freshly fallen snow poses similar visual challenges as the view of the equipment in the engine rooms at CERN.
0:00-0:07 "Dreck, CERN, Saint Genis-Pouilly 2021", 2021
0:08-0:26 "Ion Source, PSB, CERN, Meyrin 2019", 2019
0:27-0:43"Decay Station, ISOLDE, CERN, Meyrin 2019", 2019
0:44-0:59 "Schlichter Weg, Feldberger Seenlandschaft 2021", 2021
1:00-1:10 "Ellsworth Schist, Rockport, Maine 2021", 2021
1:11-1:38 "Magnet, COMPASS, CERN, Prévessin-Moens 2019", 2019
1:39-1:58 "X-ray Telescope, CAST, CERN, Ferney-Voltaire 2021", 2021
1:59-2:25 "ALICE, CERN, Saint Genis-Pouilly 2019"
2:26-2:58 "Cosmic Ray Test Area, ATLAS, CERN, Meyrin 2019"
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