Photographer Torsten Warmuth

Like the great flaneur of the past century, Torsten Warmuth understands urban space as modernity’s extreme – as the place where customary patterns of order and perception dissipated long ago. In the constant flow and rhythm of permanent simultaneity, it is no longer possible to grasp any substantial reality. Recognition exists only as subjective contemplation, incessantly evading us and being restored.Warmuth’s unique images, so-called “silver paintings”, are based on traditional photographic processes, but they are elaborated by means of negative montage and a painterly application of toners, so that the ultimately emerging works cross the borders between photography and painting. What can be seen is the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous. A directly poetical magic. Time turns into space and space turns into time.

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