Thomas Wrede to Show Works from Manhattan Series at Beck & Eggeling International

Written by Hans Ulrich Monday, 30 January 2012 22:38

MUNICH.- To start off a cooperation between Henn Gallery, Munich and Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, the German photographer Thomas Wrede (*1963) will show works from his series Manhattan Picture Worlds. The Vernissage will be on Thursday, 4th March, 7 p.m. at Henn Gallery, Augustenstrasse 54 in Munich, with introductory words by Dr. Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Head of Department Photography and New Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.

Wrede has photographed oversized advertisements in the centre of New York City between the years 2003 and 2008, which he treats as incorporated elements of architecture in his pictures. As in earlier works by Wrede e.g. the Real Landscapes- or Small Worlds series, the artist plays with dimensions as well as different layers of perception and reality. Manhattan Picture Worlds does not use the conquering drive that the huge poster surfaces have on the outside world as a starting point, but rather as a visual terminus. In this way, the radical fusion of the advertising image with real space is viewed from the vantage point of the passerby." (Christoph Schaden, catalogue, p. 109).

Wrede graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Münster, in 1992. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad and won prizes such as the German Contemporary Art Award, Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken, Frankfurt, or the Karl-Hofer-Award by the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. He lives in Münster, and works in Europe and the USA.

Beck & Eggeling is one of the leading art galleries representing various focal points on the international art market. Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is one of the few galleries showing works by French Impressionist artists such as Renoir, Monet or Manet.

The second focal point is on German Expressionism with extraordinary works by Nolde, Kirchner, Pechstein or August Macke. Beck & Eggeling new quarters is dedicated wholly to international contemporary art and is staging about 6 – 8 exhibitions yearly of artists such as Heribert C. Ottersbach, Wolf Hamm and Magdalena Abakanowicz. The in-house publishing house Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag produces catalogues and books related to the exhibitions with art-critical texts and reviews.

In 2006 Beck & Eggeling founded the Gallery for Art by Pablo Picasso together with Cecilie and Fritz Conzen, which focuses completely on the rich œuvre of Picasso, as well as artists working in direct relation to Picasso. One of the last exhibitions presented works from the 1940s by Francoise Gilot – probably the most important muse of Picasso, who is herself a great artist. Visit : http://www.beck-eggeling.de/en

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