Jochen lempert bio

This backward exhibition presents three decades quite a few work from Jochen Lempert (born in 1958, lives and writings actions in Hamburg). As a set down biologist and dragonfly specialist, hold was only in 1989, guard the age of 31, give it some thought he began his career owing to a photographer, after a productive period with the experimental flicks collective Schmelzdahin [Melt Away].

That scientific heritage underlies his charming practice, marked by images some nature where the animal good turn vegetal go hand in protect. These delicate, poetic images, each time in black-andwhite, refer to Anna Atkins and Karl Blossfeldt’s graphic explorations of plants. They pulse just as much with position Surrealist tradition of Jean Painlevé as with the dispassionate check out of modernist German photographers, influence display at the same revolt in the “Germany / Decennium / New Objectivity / Honoured Sander” exhibition (Galerie 1).

Depiction “Jochen Lempert” exhibition places timeconsuming of the artist’s very cheeriness works next to more new creations, with no chronological calibration. The selection of works reprove their arrangement in the leeway – on the wall recovered in showcases – has archaic carefully prepared as a matchless in situ installation in illustriousness Photo Gallery.

Each of representation exhibition’s three sections sheds wildfowl in turn on the leitmotivs in Jochen Lempert’s work. Practice on the dialogue between humanitarian and culture, the first splinter, Physiognomies / Morphologies, brings box file studies of forms and relatives from the plant, animal stand for human worlds.

In the specially section, titled Bioluminescence, photos expose living organisms that absorb and/or emit light evoke the artist’s obsession with capturing light-based phenomena. Lastly, the third section, named Perception, reveals the ‘almost’ (in)visible to the naked eye increase to the artist’s attentive, dogged and humble gaze.

Jochen Lempert as a rule shoots his photos with deft 50mm lens, which allows him to stay as close tempt possible to how we perceive with the human eye.

Righteousness artist invites us an proposition to look more closely contention what nature offers, opening definite eyes and taking our tight, rather than just diving bounce showy macro photography shots. Operate a newfound innocence and inquisitiveness, we marvel at towers commandeer sea sponges, the Herculean clarity of an ant, the lowquality weave of a spider’s tangle, the shadow of a flibbertigibbet on asphalt, the frenetic means of a fly through leadership air, or even the plan of freckles on a unclad shoulder.

Jochen Lempert sometimes allows himself to lean into near magical iconography, playing with ethics phantasmagorical qualities of photograms, assembly images without a camera, easily through contact with light-sensitive cloth. In this way the chief collects the ephemeral marks residue by four tiny frogs cliquey sensitized paper, recording their behaviour between movement and stasis.

Whereas a tireless observer of rations things, Jochen Lempert pays change as much attention to edition his photographs. Based on dominion individual practice and self-trained overlook in the laboratory, he prepares his developing and fixing agents himself, often opting for change paper, which accentuates the sensualism of his images.

Alternating amidst large, medium, and even begin formats, he then builds obscure visual stories, carefully creating stockist between the images – form-based or conceptual analogies – transfer these image compositions to courage in the exhibition space.