TORBEN ESKEROD
ZEITSPUREN
27 October – 7 December 2013
Monday and Wednesday
5 pm – 7 pm on appointment
The exhibition
TORBEN ESKEROD
ZEITSPUREN
27 October – 7 December 2013
CAMPO VERANO I MARSELIS
Torben Eskerod seeks the traces of time. He tracks their impact on the human being and on the world around him. The works in this exhibition lead us to the Campo Verano, the largest graveyard in Rome, and to the Marselis forest in Denmark.
“If these photographs“ taken at Campo Verano “capture the poignant and mysterious allure of the human visage, they capture as well the slow but irresistibly destructive power of the hours, days and years. The cracks, scratches, chips, molds, and bleaching afflicting all of the images (…) bear eloquent witness to this power. It is Torben Eskerod‘s great gift to register the inexorable loss as itself a strange new manifestation of beauty.“ (Stephen Greenblatt)
In the pictures from Marselis forest Torben Eskerod “used old film, exposed it and in a few cases even let it lie for years before developing it. The film emulsion has its own life and the captured moment therefore changes with time as the colours and the contours blur. (…) We glimpse something and yet it eludes our intelligence and our inherent urge to find a unified totality. It remains mysterious and unattainable.“ (Jens Friis)
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Exhibition opening
Saturday, 26 October 2013 at 5 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart
Introduction
Dr. Matthias Bullinger | bildkultur Stuttgart
The exhibition is on view
from Sunday 27 October – Saturday 7 December 2013
Gallery
hours
Monday and Wednesday
5 pm – 7 pm on appointment
The exhibition is supported by
Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts
Kgl. Dänisches Honorarkonsulat Stuttgart