The Bildhalle is exploring new approaches to perceiving and appreciating art. Visit us digitally and discover Douglas Mandry talking about his work in a filmed tour of the exhibition (see the link below). In another short film, he describes the process that underlies his work and the idea behind his prize-winning series “Monuments”.
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In his series “Monuments”, Douglas Mandry uses the relatively primitive technique of the photogram, which requires physical engagement with the melting glacial ice that is his subject. The resulting images replace distanced views with material traces of the processes that are transforming the landscape. Similarly, the sheets of fabric onto which he prints – scraps of the immense geotextile blankets placed onto glaciers to stabilize their temperature – bear the marks and stains of the meltwater that soaks through them. The collaged and overpainted photographs in Still Wonder pay tribute to a Swiss tradition of landscape painting, while proposing a tactile and personal experience of place. Mandry’s work draws historical imagery of the region into dialogue with the present.

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Digital:
Filmed tour of the exhibition: A tour by the artist
Short film: Monuments – The story behind
3D exhibition: Douglas Mandry – A brief crack of light

Douglas Mandry (*1989, CH) is an artist who lives and works in Zurich. He gained a Bachelors in both Visual Communication and Photography from the University of Art and Design ECAL in Lausanne. Since graduating Mandry has been nominated for numerous awards including the Paul Huf Award, Swiss Federal Design Award and got awarded as “Foam Talent 2020” by the renowned Foam Museum in Amsterdam.

“Monuments” is part of two current shows at Foam Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Wien. Bildhalle dedicated two solo shows in 2016 and 2018 to his work, a next solo show is planned in St. Moritz in February 2021. Mandry’s work was bought by various institutional and corporate collections of photography and the technological accelerations that came along with it. Always shooting his initial images in analogue, all of Mandry’s interventions in the image are done by hand, through the application of different historic photographic processes or by physically cutting and pasting.

BILDHALLE

Gallery for classic and contemporary
photography

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8004 Zurich

BILDHALLE AMSTERDAM

Gallery for classic and contemporary
photography

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1016 SM Amsterdam

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