The Italian-based photographer Walter
Niedermayr is concerned
with extending the potential of a single
image in his work, a picture is allowed to
unfold as a series of fragments.
He takes pictures in the openness of a lonely alpine landscape or in the tightly controlled, cramped conditions of a closed institution, the concrete topographical references in his pictures always evaporate. Characterized by a diffuse light that illuminates spaces and colors, stretched between the visible and the invisible, his photographs reveal the various subtle qualities of spaces, from sober eeriness to poetic delimitation. The artist confronts the viewer with the expansive imagery of a photographic series that has neither beginning nor end, offering views of space as seen through the life of passengers and inmates, hospital workers and waiting room attendants.
Niedermayr is concerned
with extending the potential of a single
image in his work, a picture is allowed to
unfold as a series of fragments.
He takes pictures in the openness of a lonely alpine landscape or in the tightly controlled, cramped conditions of a closed institution, the concrete topographical references in his pictures always evaporate. Characterized by a diffuse light that illuminates spaces and colors, stretched between the visible and the invisible, his photographs reveal the various subtle qualities of spaces, from sober eeriness to poetic delimitation. The artist confronts the viewer with the expansive imagery of a photographic series that has neither beginning nor end, offering views of space as seen through the life of passengers and inmates, hospital workers and waiting room attendants.
SANAA has cooperated with Niedermayr, to pursues an abstract approach to the investigation of space. They combine forces in Walter Niedermayrs photographs of SANAAs architecture, which avoid sensationalism and drama in favor of helping the viewer develop a sense of architectures possibilities, the essentials of space and the relativity of the visible. Photographs alongside plans show how the monolithic and the fragmentary, the hermetic and the porous, the amorphous and the solid contribute to SANAAs ever-shifting atmospheres.
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