Michael Wesely
View from the Glienicke Bridge to Babelsberg Castle, 2004

Artist
Michael Wesely

Title
View from the Glienicke Bridge to Babelsberg Castle

Year of creation
2004

Technology and dimensions
C-Print behind Plexiglas with steel frame, 110 x 140 cm

Year of acquisition
2005

Michael Wesely almost always examines the nature of photography in his work. He works with long-term exposures with the shutter open, visualizing light and structuring time in the image. The title of the series "East Germany", from which we acquired three works, shows a different, unusual view of the landscape of the former GDR. Here he also uses the long exposure technique and gets graduated blue stripes that the lens perceives in this form. They are colored barcodes of landscapes whose horizontality is reminiscent of the abstraction of Dutch landscape painting of the 17th century. The color zones merge gently into one another and give the picture something meditative.

Britta Schmitz