Ingo Mittelstaedt
Neue Ordnung
07 - 30 May 2010
We are proud to present ingo Mittelstaedts first insitutional Solo Show and his latest series Chromas.
What is photography? Ingo Mittelstaedt explores this frequently asked question in his new analogue works - with models made of paper, foil, found materials and everyday objects. He creates carefully composed scenarios in his images that condense into tension-filled illusions of surface and spatial elements.
The exploration of colour plays a central role in the works produced in 2011. Bright areas of blue, red and yellow tones dominate the image composition. Mittelstaedt addresses considerations of colour theory and refers to the painting of classical modernism and its exploration of colour, surface, line and space. Puzzling mirroring, distortions and reflections determine the images - but they do not lead to the dissolution of objectivity: rather Mittelstaedt references museum and photographic methods of presentation of the 50's and 60's with his almost stage-like arrangements.
Ingo Mittelstaedt (born 1978) studied with Dörte Eisfeld at HBK in Braunschweig and has been a freelance artist since 2009. He has had numerous exhibitions at home and in the Netherlands, Spain, Brasil and the USA.
What is photography? Ingo Mittelstaedt explores this frequently asked question in his new analogue works - with models made of paper, foil, found materials and everyday objects. He creates carefully composed scenarios in his images that condense into tension-filled illusions of surface and spatial elements.
The exploration of colour plays a central role in the works produced in 2011. Bright areas of blue, red and yellow tones dominate the image composition. Mittelstaedt addresses considerations of colour theory and refers to the painting of classical modernism and its exploration of colour, surface, line and space. Puzzling mirroring, distortions and reflections determine the images - but they do not lead to the dissolution of objectivity: rather Mittelstaedt references museum and photographic methods of presentation of the 50's and 60's with his almost stage-like arrangements.
Ingo Mittelstaedt (born 1978) studied with Dörte Eisfeld at HBK in Braunschweig and has been a freelance artist since 2009. He has had numerous exhibitions at home and in the Netherlands, Spain, Brasil and the USA.