The visitor arrives via a staircase onto a pedestal covered with white fabric and clad in frills around the edges, which almost completely fills the exhibition space. The surface of this elevated floor reflects the ceiling light and immerses the space, as if it was a white cube, in gleaming light. Upon entering onto […]
The sculpture „Flying Photographer“ (2008) is the three dimensional translation of a caricature of Honoré Daumier from 1862. The original title, „Nadar élevant la photographie à la hauteur de l ‚art“ [Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of Art] shows the French photographer and pioneer Nadar, as he takes the first aerial photographs of the […]
Under the exhibition title „The Meaning of Images is Magical“ – a quotation from Vilém Flusser – Stefan Alber presented two work series in 2007 that address the interpenetration of painting, sculpture and photography. For this purpose people and objects were primed white and then painted with small dots in red, blue, green and yellow. […]
In 1826 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce exposed a glass plate for eight hours with the view of his courtyard. The print was the first photographic picture in history. For eight hours on July 23rd 2006, Stefan Alber transferred the view from his studio window, which was very similar to Niépce’s subject, into the exhibition space via […]
The installation „Denia – Neapel – Jupiter“ (2006) combines photographs from the series „Table Pictures“ (2006) with the sculptural work „Untitled – Mahogany“ (2006). Images from a catalogue found on the street listing glass tables, serve as a template for Stefan Alber’s „Table Pictures“. The series shows individual pages from the brochure, of which the […]