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until 01.03. | #4547ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from 18. January 2025 the exhibition Remnant by the artist Daniel Bodner.
The American painter Daniel Bodner, whose work Galerie Martin Merte has been following since 2013 and is now presenting in a fifth solo exhibition, is treading completely new formal paths with his new group of works. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that even in his figurative paintings, which are based on urban landscapes or the human figure, his main interest lay in exploring the relationship between painting and photography and their respective ways of depicting light.
The abstract paintings in this new exhibition intensify this interest. By moving on to images that he generates unconsciously, Bodner explores the simultaneous creation and destruction of images that can occur in the analogue photographic process with its pitfalls of overexposure and underexposure, unintended chemical reactions and the physicality of technology.
When looking at “photographs”, the transition from analogue to digital image production can seem insignificant. However, as digital image creation replaces the analogue photographic process, its invisible, instantaneous mechanism erases the drama of an image’s creation.
By moving from scenes drawn from the world around us to an unconscious approach to image-making, Bodner depicts this drama as if the paintings are literally evolving as we look at them, with both creation and destruction occurring simultaneously.
Opening: Saturday 18. January, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday 18. January until Saturday, 01. March 2025
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Title image caption: Courtesy Daniel Bodner – Galerie Martin Mertens
Exhibition Daniel Bodner – Galerie Martin Mertens | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
