Tom Christopher, Detlef Waschkau and Thomas Kellner
Since Alfred Döblin’s novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz” from 1929 and Walter Ruttmann’s film “Berlin – the symphony of the big city” from 1927, the city in its diverse realities has been in the focus of art. Our exhibition presents three contemporary approaches to this topic: a painterly, a sculptural and a photographic one.
The painter Tom Christopher (born 1952) captures the dynamism of the big city New York on canvases and paper with bright colors, tells of the everyday life of the people in front of the backdrop of the skyscrapers.
The sculptor Detlef Waschkau (born 1961) reflects, based on photos, in his wooden reliefs, which he creates painterly and sculpturally, people and architecture in large cities such as Osaka, Beijing, New York in a multi-perspective view.
Thomas Kellner (born 1966) directs his photographic gaze to well-known urban landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Golden Gate Bridge and presents them from an amazingly new perspective by deconstructing the photos and using them as “composite photographs” of a new way of seeing exposes it, sets it in motion, as it were.
New Art Association Aschaffenburg e. V.
Landingstrasse 16
63739 Aschaffenburg
July 25 – September 12, 2021
Opening: Saturday, July 24th, 6 p.m. followed by a summer party in the Höfchen
