Exhibition
Matthias Hoch
–Press Release
During October and November, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographs by German artist, Matthias Hoch. His new works focus on the cities of Brussels and Ravensburg. The pictures do not identify either city by cultural or historical details as much as use their particulars to investigate what Hoch calls "a limited overview". His subjects include the perfect geometry of freeways, parking structures, and support systems for public transportation; the pure beaty of uninhabited offices, garages, tunnels, and the cool abstractions of "moderne" industrial design in buildings facades, floor coverings, stairwells, and ductwork. The disparate textures of the manufactured design elements and the limited palette of industrial safety colors or even the variety of grays of cements and concretes are transformed in Hoch's photographs to reveal a surprisingly rich array of tonal nuance.
Matthias Hoch received his Degree in Photography at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. He has had exhibitions throughout Europe, Canada and America. His work is in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen.
During October and November, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographs by German artist, Matthias Hoch. His new works focus on the cities of Brussels and Ravensburg. The pictures do not identify either city by cultural or historical details as much as use their particulars to investigate what Hoch calls "a limited overview". His subjects include the perfect geometry of freeways, parking structures, and support systems for public transportation; the pure beaty of uninhabited offices, garages, tunnels, and the cool abstractions of "moderne" industrial design in buildings facades, floor coverings, stairwells, and ductwork. The disparate textures of the manufactured design elements and the limited palette of industrial safety colors or even the variety of grays of cements and concretes are transformed in Hoch's photographs to reveal a surprisingly rich array of tonal nuance.
Matthias Hoch received his Degree in Photography at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. He has had exhibitions throughout Europe, Canada and America. His work is in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen.
During October and November, Rena Bransten Gallery will present new photographs by German artist, Matthias Hoch. His new works focus on the cities of Brussels and Ravensburg. The pictures do not identify either city by cultural or historical details as much as use their particulars to investigate what Hoch calls "a limited overview". His subjects include the perfect geometry of freeways, parking structures, and support systems for public transportation; the pure beaty of uninhabited offices, garages, tunnels, and the cool abstractions of "moderne" industrial design in buildings facades, floor coverings, stairwells, and ductwork. The disparate textures of the manufactured design elements and the limited palette of industrial safety colors or even the variety of grays of cements and concretes are transformed in Hoch's photographs to reveal a surprisingly rich array of tonal nuance.
Matthias Hoch received his Degree in Photography at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. He has had exhibitions throughout Europe, Canada and America. His work is in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen.