WALTER NIEDERMAYR (Bolzano, Italy, 1952). "Theodulgletscher".2005. Digital photograph, copy 3/6.

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  WALTER NIEDERMAYR (Bolzano, Italy, 1952). "Theodulgletscher".2005. Digital photograph, copy 3/6. Diptych. Signed, dated and justified on the back. Measurements: 125 x 99 cm. each; 131 x 104 cm.(c.u. frame). Walter Niedermayr was born in Bolzano where he also works and creates most of his works. Italy will be used by Niedermayr as a photographic medium to explore his main motif of work which revolves around the dissatisfaction of looking. In contrast to the strong pictorial tradition of Northern Europe, Niedermayr photographs the glacial panorama of the Alps as the protagonist and the people who occupy these landscapes in a secondary way by referring to contemporary art paintings such as Peter Doig or Caspar David Friedrich. Niedermayr uses and exemplifies the camera as an element to draw and paint objects by employing a combination of underexposures and raw filtering in his works. The whitening effect he introduces in the image will be to transfer the sensation we have when we wake up from a dream and as if we were searching with our eyes, still half-open, within these landscapes for our personal and individual selection of forms. The clarity and definition are developed in the time and process of the construction of the image so that there is no further treatment in the laboratory or digitally. His method of fragmentation simplifies the whole image, with "isolated elements that give it a sense of sadness". Since 1988, he has exhibited his photographic and video works in public institutions, museums and galleries. His work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions and cultural events such as Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (2018), Aut. Architektur und Tirol in Innsbruck (2017), Galéria Mesta Bratislavy in Bratislava (2015), Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris (2012), Fondazione Fotografia in Modena (2011), Museion in Bolzano (2004), Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart (2003), Centre pour l'image contemporaine in Geneva (2000), White Cube in London (1998), Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz (1992) and numerous other public and private spaces. His latest series, conceived during the close of 2020 and commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, is on display at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. His works have also been presented in the past in group exhibitions, such as those at MAST in Bologna (2017), MAXXI in Rome (2016), the International Architecture Biennale in Venice (2014 and 2010), the Fotomuseum in Winterthur (2013), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and the Denver Art Museum (2011), Manifesta7 in Bolzano (2008), the Pompidou Center in Paris (2006), MART in Rovereto (2003) and many others. The artist's works are in numerous international collections, including MoMa in New York, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, MAXXI in Rome, MOCA in Los Angeles, Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Intesa Sanpaolo and UBS Art Collection. Between 2011 and 2014 he taught art photography at the Libera Università di Bolzano.
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