Roger Eberhard
dal 23/8/2012 al 28/9/2012
Segnalato da
23/8/2012
Roger Eberhard
Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
Once It Held Laughter - Once It Held Dreams. This series was created in Hamburg, taking the impact of airtraffic noise as its central focus, picturing a now depopulated street in the village of Neuenfelde.
“Once it held laughter, once it held dreams. Did they throw it away, did they know what it means”
- Tom Waits, from House Where Nobody Lives
Christophe Guye Galerie is proud to announce its season opening with the upcoming exhibition “Once it held laughter, once it held dreams” by the emerging Swiss artist Roger Eberhard (*1984). The latest series of the 28-year-old Zurich-born artist was created in Hamburg, taking the impact of airtraffic noise as its central focus, picturing a now depopulated street in the village of Neuenfelde. Borrowing Tom Waits’ lyrics for the exhibition “Once it held laughter, once it held dreams”, from the song ‘House Where Nobody Lives’, Eberhard critically looks into a deceiving harmony of a state-constructed idyllic reality. With technical dexterity, the artist skilfully combines sound-visuals with landscape photography: quiet and thoughtful this three-part series simultaneously illustrates unbearable noise, an overwhelming emptiness, and controversial political decisions. For “tumulus” (2011) Eberhard documented a deserted island in British Columbia, with “In Good Light” (2011) he created a series addressing the homeless, and for his series “Wilted Country” (2010) the artist focused on deserted villages throughout the USA’s Midwest. As with each body of work before, “Once it held laughter, once it held dreams” is underlined by Eberhard’s central themes of isolation, migration and alienation.
Image: Roger EBERHARD (*1984, Swiss)
Untitled (Haus #130), 2012
C-print mounted to aluminium
120 x 150 cm
Edition of 3
Opening in presence of the artist: Thursday, 24th of August, 6 – 8 p.m.
Christophe Guye Galerie
Dufourstrasse 31 - Zurich