Walter Niedermayr

Lower Walter Mayr ( born February 27, 1952 in Bolzano ) is an artist / photographer and lives in Bolzano.

Since 1985 he is working on projects in which he examines the space as occupied and designed by human reality and questions the ephemeral spaces between imagination and imagination. This is reflected in the work groups Alpine landscapes (Alpine Landscapes ) since 1987 and Space (Space Con / Sequences ) since 1991, building shells (Shell Constructions ) since 1997, artifacts ( Artifacts ) since 1992, the image space (image space) since 2001. This latter has to do with architecture, in which it comes to the visualization of space and room atmosphere. Between 2005 and 2008, the series of images of Iran have emerged. Since 2011 professor of photography at the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bolzano.

In 1995, he was honored for his series The Pale Mountains with the European Photography Award. 1997 Niedermayr involved in the project meeting place no man's land of the Berlin artist duo ptt red at the Brenner Pass.

From 2000 he has worked together with the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, who lead the firm SANAA in Tokyo. In the serial works of the group of works picture space in which he mainly deals with the architecture of SANAA, it is about a correspondence between the two visual languages ​​that are visible in joint exhibitions or publications: Walter Niedermayr | Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa / Sanaa and Novartis Campus factory Street, 4, Sanaa / Sejima Nishizawa, works by Walter Niedermayr (see bibliography ).

Walter Niedermayr is represented by the gallery Nordenhake, Berlin / Stockholm.

  • 4.1 monographic editions

Reception

The Magazine for Photography and Media Art Eikon wrote about low Mayr's work, striking was " particularly his work with the color that approaches the pastel tones, usually in contrast to the standard of photo labs overexposed, with its dense and rich colors what the images a bit more reality can appear raptured and they faded and transparent ".

Jörg M. Colberg, founder and editor of Conscientious, talks about the book "The Aspen Series": 'The result is a wonderful hybrid - a German sensibility ( Which Usually is just one step short of the more Celebrated, austere designs coming from Scandinavia ) working with the best in Dutch design, making photographs did come in groups of up to six shine - and all that in a unassuming book Whose preciousness slowly unfolds, as the reader notices the elegance of the typesetting, say, the qualities of the different. papers used, and the binding Itself ( the square is very small) The Aspen Series is the perfect book for this body of work, Which, I must add, is what it is: Photographs of a snowy landscape, with people skiing ( for what it 's worth, I prefer the landscapes over the photographs of skiers ). Some of the spreads in the book are just amazing. Crucially, the book does not attempt to overwhelm with glossy scale (the temptation so many makers of coffee table books sadly give in to). Instead, it opts for elegance, with restraint bordering on the minimal.

Works in collections

Lower Mayr's works are in public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Fondation Cartier, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, in the Neue Galerie Graz, in the Museion in Bolzano and in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: " Walter Niedermayr, Appearances ," La Filature, Mullhouse
  • 2012: " Conjonctions " Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Paris, Paris
  • 2011: " Walter Niedermayr 2005-2010 ", Ex - Ospedale Sant'Agostino, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena
  • 2007: " Walter Niedermayr / Ryue Nishizawa Kazuyo Sejima ( SANAA ) ", with SANAA Architects, International Arts Centre, Antwerp, Centre d'architecture Bordeaux, aut architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
  • 2004: " Walter Niedermayr - Civil Operations (Civil operations) ," Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
  • 2003: " Walter Niedermayr - Civil Operations (Civil operations) ", Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunstverein Hannover, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
  • 2000: Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva; Rupertinum, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
  • 1999: Musée Château d' Annecy, Annecy; " Walter Niedermayr - Reserves of the moment ," ar / ge Art Gallery Museum, Bolzano
  • 1998: White Cube, London

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2013: " TAV Bologna Milano - Fotografia, ricerca e territorio " Maxxi, Roma, " CONCRETE - Photography and Architecture", Fotomuseum Winterthur, " Landmark: The Fields of Photography " Positive View Foundation, Somerset House, London
  • 2012: "Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s -Present ", The Bertha and Karl Laubendorf Gallery, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York
  • 2011: " Tokyo Art Meeting ( II) Architectural Environments for Tomorrow - New Spatial Practices in Architecture and Art ", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; " Imperfect Health", Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; " Flashing Light, Sound & the Moving Image ," Denver Art Museum; "Alpine Desire", Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; " Hafnarhús - Without Destination", Reykjavík Art Museum ( RAM)
  • 2010: " People Meet in Architecture " - Arsenale, 12th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venice Biennale; Daegu Photo Biennale 2010
  • 2009: " 'Nature' in Contemporary Art", Kunstmuseum Bonn; "Before Architecture, After Architecture", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2008: Manifesta7, " The Rest of Now " Alumix Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino- South Tyrol; "From the length of the ice ," Albertina, Vienna; "Art Incorporated - The Role of Art in Urban Developement " Kunstmuseet Koge; "Art is for the spirit", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; " All inclusive The world of tourism. ", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; " Places of comprometidos. Topografía y Actualidad " Photoespaña 2008, XI International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, Madrid
  • 2007: " Tourist's Tale", Arhus Art Building; " Reality Crossings ", 2nd Photo Festival Mannheim / Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg; " Japan and the West", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; "There is no border, there is no border, there is no border, no border, no border, no border, I wish", Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck; "Northern Lights - Reflecting with Images ", Galleria Civica di Modena
  • 2006: " Sanaa / Walter Niedermayr " with Sanaa architects, Architecture Museum, Basel; " Peintres de la vie moderne ", Centre Pompidou, Paris; "Opening up Art, Tate Modern ," UBS Art Collection, London; " Archit - Action ", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • 2005: " Sanaa ", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, with Sanaa architects, Kanazawa; "Multiple rooms (2) Park ", Kunsthalle, Baden Baden
  • 2004: " Metamorph ", 9th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venice Biennale; " Public Record ", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2003: "The Spirit of White", Fondation Beyeler, Basel; ". Montagna Arte, scienza, mito as Dürer a Warhol ", MART, Rovereto; "Of course, built in the countryside between construction and narration. ", Helmet House, Zurich; " Paikan Politicat. Politics of Sense", Suomen valokuvataiteen museo. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; " Platsens policy," Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Härnösand
  • 2002: " Paysage ", 4e Biennale d' Art contemporain, Enghien- les- Bains
  • 2000: "Anti- Memory ," Yokohama Museum of Art
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