Thomas Eller
Thomas Eller ( born September 8, 1964) is a German artist and author.
Career
Born and raised in Franconia Eller left Nuremberg in 1985 to study Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Berlin. After his forced de-registration, he studied at the Free University Berlin religion, philosophy and art history. During this time he worked as a research assistant at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research. From 1990, he has had numerous exhibitions in European museums and galleries. In 1995 he received the U.S. Green Card and moved to New York. This was followed by exhibitions in galleries and museums in North and South America, and in Asia and Europe. In 2004 he returned to Berlin and founded an online art magazine on the Internet platform artnet. As head of the German branch he also organized the distribution in China and was the architect of cooperation artnet of the art fair Art Basel and the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions ( BVDG ). From 2008 to mid-2009, Eller was managing director for the artistic area of the Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin.
Work
Ellers photo sculptures created by laminated on aluminum and cropped photographs that are installed using hidden aluminum structures in front of the wall, on the floor or anywhere in the room. By cutting out of a photographed object is not removed, the space context, since the perspective is maintained. But is cut away the temporal context. So it can be experienced by the viewer in the immediate present his perception. Nevertheless, the photo object has a spatial concept that is the space of the viewer strange. For example, it is an object which has been captured by the camera in a plan, always think it can be seen in plan view. If you take this object and it depends on the eye level of the viewer, the physical experience tells him during the visual process: " I see upward ". This conflict: The Eye says: " I look down " while the body is signaled: " I see upward " is indissoluble. This photo sculptures by Thomas Eller assume an intermediate state between a two-dimensional image and three-dimensional object.
In various groups as "THE bounty" or "THE objectile " generates Thomas Eller complex spatial structure in which, taken up several times to the same objects at different times, on different planes of space behind and next to each other. Only in the perception of the viewer activates the different objects in a meaningful temporal relationship. By allowing the viewer to the different spatial levels focused separately, it takes the individual planes true in a temporal sequence and thus sets in his mind an almost cinematic sequence in motion. It appears as if one saw an object as it moves in space.