The OTHER GALLERY is pleased to announce the exhibition of photographs by German artist MARTIN KLIMAS-MOVEMENTS - .
His latest series 'Foulard' is put in relation to the energetic warriors. High-quality silk scarves provide the thematic background with an ambivalent nature between two-and three-dimensionality. Particularly focusing on the pictorial character of these fashion accessories, Martin Klimas interacts with minimalist geometric patterns on luminous silk. The gentle and slender movements of the scarfs reveal a teasing play of colors and light to bewitch the eye.
Porcelain Figurines
Martin Klimas was motivated by high-speed photography, which his German professor at university introduced to him. His works are most scientific and require a subtle technical knowledge. During his first shots he was fascinated how the objects suddenly reveal their inner beauty. It was mostly about this rarely seen moment, which he kept in his photography and not the destruction at first hand.The fighting figurines display a perpetual sense of motion and start to set free a dynamic action that the character is already implying - they seem to become alive.
Foulard
Martin Klimas Focusing on the surface of the shimmering silk in a close-up shot by the most advanced camera technique he catches the two- and three-dimensionality in an utmost silent and subtle manner.It is the pictorial character of these fashion accessories that specifically interests Martin Klimas in this work.
His photographs appear like large-scale paintings caught between figuration and abstraction where luminous colour fields liaise with minimalist geometric patterns that entirely capture the image and present a stunning reflection of light on the smoothly shining silk.
Sonic Sculptures
Paint positioned on a scrim o ver the diaphragm of a speaker . Then the volume is turned up . For each image, Klimas selec ts music throughout different epoques and styles — typically something dynamic and percuss ive, like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis or Kraftwerk and the vibration of the speaker sends the paint aloft in patterns that reveal themselves through the lens of his highly professional camera. For this series, Klimas spent six months and about 1,000 shots to produce the final images from his stud io in Düsseldorf, Germany. In addition to the obvious debt owed to abstract expressionism, Klimas says his major influence was Hans Jenny, the father of cymatics, the study of wave phenomena. The resulting images are Klimas’s attempt to answer the question “What does music look like?” an interaction between sound, form and color.
Flowervases
Flawlessly arranged flower vases are shot by steel balls and captured at the moment of their destruction.When hit by the projectiles, glass vases shatter, and ceramic and stoneware vases burst into large fragments. What interests Klimas is not so much the moment of impact as the transformation taking place in one seven-thousandth of a second. While the top half of the photograph remains poised in an absolutely harmonious still life, utter chaos has erupted below. The contrast of motionlessness and top speed explodes the triteness of the subject. The simultaneous presence of two distinct states and the improbable serenity of the pictures are positively spellbinding.
Falling Things
A variety of things are dropped to please the eye. By falling from a certain height Martin Klimas catches a glimpse of movement that is revealing a hidden energy shot by a professional camera set. The scene seems to be a chaotic coincidence but it’s the very moment that is kept in the final image. This process requires a high concentration to achieve the final perfection. Apparently infinite streams of objects in free fall transmit a play of colors, shadow and light.
