Werner Bartsch
dal 1/2/2011 al 25/2/2011
Segnalato da
1/2/2011
Werner Bartsch
Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg
Desert Birds. This cycle of photographs depicts the aerospace storage bases in the south-west of the USA
His 'Desert Birds'-cycle depicts the aerospace storage bases in the south-west of the USA which are strictly sealed off from the outside world. For this project doors were only opened exceptionally. In his pictures Werner Bartsch illustrates the fascination of these places and focuses the strange and bizarre appearance of the disused airplanes in the expanse of the barren desert. In contrast to the activity of an airport one feels the isolation here. Instead of materials like steel, glass and concrete there are only sand, stones and some blades of grass. The contradictoriness between the airplanes as objects and the context of the desert creates new perspectives: like imposing metal sculptures the airplanes adapt themselves to the impassable area becoming artworks unintentionally. For Werner Bartsch it is neither important to document these storages nor is his work a kind of stocktaking of disused machines.