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4/9/2008

Torsten Ruehle

Gallery Kai Hilgemann, Berlin

Torsten Ruehle

* Born in 1975 in Dresden, Germany; lives and works in Berlin * 2003 ­ 2005 Studied with Professor Arno Rink at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (³Academy for graphics and book art²) in Leipzig as well as with Professor Hanns Schimansky at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee (³Art Academy²) in Berlin

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Emil Otto Nardorff

Torsten Ruehle is busy changing the world: He takes high-energy, film-like pictures (such as those of David Lynch, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Aki Kaurismäki and Roy Andersson) and photographs of classic interiors (such as those of Mies van der Rohe, Charles & Ray Eames and Richard Neutra) and makes light, surreal arrangements of the atmospheric pictures by reorienting, modifying and adding to them. His use of this method leads to a plethora of gadgets, equipment and technical apparatuses interacting with scenery: The dimensions, temperature, swells and colors of swimming pools are altered while clouds dimly tug on ceilings and houses begin to hover; bottles and ice cream bowls fly through space and whimsical cows are draped on a field of carpet while carousel ponies and oranges roll about.

He brings into the tangible world of pictures a vivid collage piecing together both motives from the daily, shoreless flood of pictures that strands itself within the mind as well as facets of real life, things observable and able to be photographed. He makes the present appear to be a montage of modified reality ­ sometimes Elysian, sometimes markedly cryptic. The pictures are created with the use of a very individual technique: massive, static black lines graphically set the form, which is primarily complemented by and broken up with scumbling oil paint; the rhythm of the lines loses itself emotionally to the melodies of the colors ­ colors which, in a singular phenomenon, become more and more and more fascinating the longer the picture is viewed. The details, patterns, radiating lines, and bolting arrows often drawn into the pictures with colored pencil, which effortlessly create visual tension, are only apparent upon a closer look.

Everything seems peaceful and demure, like a still life. The occasional protagonist appears to be absent and withdrawn. Though the scenic pictures appear intimate and familiar, at the same time it is nearly impossible to pull away from the almost embarrassing strangeness they emanate. The pictures seem to float in the air, as if something will happen at any moment to release the feeling of tension so inherent within them. And although there is nothing of a classical feeling about the pictures, a sort of film-like impression arises: Time seems to disappear as you look at them.

Opening sept. 5, 2008

Gallery Kai Hilgemann
Zimmerstrasse 90/91, 2.Square - Berlin
Hours: Tue-Sat 11-6pm, Saturday 6.9. 11-6 pm, Sunday 7.9. 11-6 pm
Free admission

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