Galerie Barbara Thumm Presents New Works by Martin Dammann

Written by John Kelsey Friday, 30 September 2011 23:42

Berlin.- The Barbara Thumm Gallery is pleased to present "Martin Dammann: Gegen Uber" a series of new works by the Berlin based artist until October 29th. An essential topic of Martin Dammanns’ work is the correlation of photography and painting with regards to the topics, which are depicted. Dammann chooses to translate the photographic image into painting when he is "captured by an unexpected, vague and yet poignant feeling that something is in the photo, though not visibly. As if the moments when these photos were taken had a special meaning and despite the inability of  traces of light to translate this into a photochemical process, an echo of that meaning somehow remains (Martin Dammann).” By transcribing such photos into a different medium Dammann seeks to understand and to master that described phenomena.

Colour is used “to make the emotional geography of the pictures visible” (Martin Dammann) – an overemphasis of the image is created. Martin Dammann was born 1965 in Friedrichshafen and studied at  Hochschule der Künste Bremen from 1988 until 1992. He completed his studies in 1994 at Hochschule der Künste Berlin where he studied in the class of Karl Horst Hödicke and Katharina Sieverding. Martin Dammanns’ last solo exhibition took place at the beginning of the year in course of the Berlin-Paris Gallery exchange at In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc Gallery in Paris. In 2009 he had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Konstanz e.V., Barbara Thumm Gallery and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Until October 30, 2011, his work is also being shown in the group exhibition "Role Models – Role Playing“ at Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg in Salzburg.


Berlin-based gallery Galerie Barbara Thumm exhibits international mid-career artists as well as select emerging and younger artists. Taking pride in finding young artists and fostering them throughout their careers, the gallery shows a strong predilection for representational work in various media. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.bthumm.de/

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