17/4/2002
Gerhard Stromberg
Entwistle, London
For his second exhibition at Entwistle Stromberg is exhibiting a set of large-scale photographs and light-boxes that are the result of a yearlong residency with Sunderland University. Stromberg invests the barren fields and tenement housing with an unexpected beauty and dignity.
Or So It Seemed
Private View 17 April 6 - 8pm
Exhibition 18 April - 24 May 2002
Starting in the summer of 2000, Gerhard Stromberg began to photograph the
landscape and housing of north-east England. The body of work that emerged
eighteen months later is exploration of the relationship between landscape and
memory and, more personally for the artist, Stromberg's own relationship to his
birthplace and his adopted homeland.
Born in Germany in 1952, Gerhard Stromberg has been resident in the UK since
1986. Stromberg's landscape photographs have been published and exhibited to
acclaim internationally and throughout the UK. For his second exhibition at
Entwistle Stromberg is exhibiting a set of large-scale photographs and
light-boxes that are the result of a yearlong residency with Sunderland
University. Stromberg invests the barren fields and tenement housing with an
unexpected beauty and dignity.
The title of each photograph is the name of a
street or place from the artist's childhood in Germany. This device displaces
the specific and creates a symbolic landscape, a western non-place of
intensively worked land and mass housing. The strength of Stromberg's work is in
the rigorous honesty of the process combined with a true love for a landscape
traditionally seen as utilitarian and non-aesthetic.
Or So It Seemed is also a book by Gerhard Stromberg and a touring exhibition, of
which Entwistle is the first venue.
Next exhibition: Tatsuo Miyajima 31 May - 27 July 2002
Entwistle, 6 Cork St, London W1S 3EE
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-17.30