Opening:
November 13, 2001 - 7:00 pm
Opening remarks by Professor Anne-Marie Bonnet,
Bonn Institute for Art History
 
Press preview:
November 13, 2001 - 12:00 pm
 
Exhibition:
November 14, 2001 - January 10, 2002
Mon. - Fri. 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
 
Adress:
Hellabrunner Strasse 1
81543 Munich, Germany
 
 
Klaus Oberer calls his work "Fotobilder," or photographic paintings. This name gives an idea of the duality of his artistic concept encompassing both photography and image design.
 
Nature in all its diversity is recurring theme in his pictures. Nature in the form of flowers and leaves interpreted in close-up "portraits." The plants evade botanical classification because their outward appearance generally remains hidden. Instead, the camera closes in on the inner structure, so that each leaf or blossom fills the entire frame. The iridescent colors and structures become the image itself. While the abstract beauty and almost mathematical logic of symmetry evokes a strong sense of order, the color palate arouses an orgy of colorful magnificence.

Oberer's works pay homage to the dialectic between design laws and nature's "irrationalities." At the same time, they present photography of high artistic capability.
 
Following the exhibition by Wolfgang Kessler who interprets photographs in his paintings, with Klaus Oberer we are presenting an opposing photographical standpoint.
 
 
Biography
 
Klaus Oberer (born 1937 in Basel, Switzerland) lives in Munich and Tessin. Trained as a graphic designer, he founded the Graphic Design Studio in Munich in 1962 together with Pierre Mendell. In 2001 he founded the Foto-Graphic-Studio in Tessin.
Klaus Oberer has worked it he artistic photography since 1966.