Gallery 16 is excited to present Blickwinkel 2, a new body of work from photographer Thomas Heinser. Blickwinkel in Heinser's native German means Point of View.
The project is a series of eighteen large-scale, aerial photographs. As
the title suggests, these aerial views of our world persuade us to
reflect more intently on the familiar.
He creates lush landscape
photographs from great heights. The photos are shot around the world,
and are both beautiful and unnerving. His work is, by design, intended
to create fresh vantage pint with which to view our environment. His
disorienting photographs depict roads, bridges and landscapes and
airplane runways as abstract, flattened and painterly visions of world.
Heinser is known for his aerial work or as her refers to
them,“Überblicks”. His work investigates built environments and urban
landscapes carved out of natural space. His photography often has a
stark and graphic stillness that reflects his particular way of seeing
and organizing the image. He searches for an honest, organized and
uncomplicated viewpoint, “I do not need to alter the reality if I can
find and capture it”.
“Blickwinkel” is Heinser’s second exhibition at Gallery 16. While
the photographer is often engaged in producing multiple, ongoing bodies
of work of various subject matter, aerial photography has been a leading
fixture in his work for more than six years, with “Überblick” exhibited
at Gallery 16 in 2011.
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Thomas
Heinser was raised in Dinslaken, Germany, and received his degree in
Communication Arts from the FH School for Communications Design in
Düsseldorf. He also attended classes at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where
Joseph Beuys was a professor. Thomas Heinser lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. |
