The exposition ended just lately. Nonetheless, right here is Roland Blum’s work.
The place
Initially a hospice of the Order of St. John, in-built 1218, the small church in the course of Feldkirch’s historic centre is now, after a chequered historical past, house to a rare exhibition area for modern artwork.
The relics of the previous vary from the Romanesque basis partitions to the Baroque frescoes and the New Gothic excessive altar.
It’s simple to get near this place, because the church stands on a distinguished sq. in the course of the town. Nonetheless, many individuals don’t look behind the façade, the place probably the most thrilling inventive goals of the area is hidden. Anybody who steps over the brink of the church from the hustle and bustle of Marktgasse is straight away captivated by the silence, the sunshine and the scale of the area. Steadily, one’s gaze wanders to the fragments of earlier occasions. Like an open e book, they inform the story of many centuries. What makes this room particular are the everyday components of a church, however particularly the ground, which is open after archaeological excavations. This mixture of abundance and barrenness is a novel enterprise for modern artwork. Anybody who will get concerned is inevitably on the path of the place.
The Work
Timeless compositions of the Namib Desert from a fowl’s eye view. The Liechtenstein photographer Roland Blum focuses his digital camera lens on the buildings and types of the fascinating panorama in southwest Africa.
Roland Blum presents eight large-format pictures (4m x 3m) within the church inside and one motif within the vestry of the Johanniterkirche. The image compositions of the oldest desert on the earth have been taken from a helicopter.
2000 km lengthy and 150 km extensive, the Namib Desert covers an space of 270,000 km2. For nearly 5 years, Roland Blum has been drawn repeatedly to the weird desert panorama of the distant northern Namib and its coast, the place the desert is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the place the chilly Benguela Present meets the land. Nearly each morning, dense fog settles over the desert right here, attributable to the fast cooling of the ocean air at night time. Roland Blum flies straight alongside the sting of the fog along with his telephoto lens: “The longer I spend with this panorama, the extra I expertise its range. Small animals that survive because of the moisture of the fog or dunes that seem like snow at some point and like zebras the subsequent. Numerous semi-precious stones and crystals replicate within the daylight and provides the sand a particular color palette. Relying on the sunshine state of affairs and angle, it appears completely different each time. A barren mountain can instantly glow purple. The colors of a dune can change from milky yellow to the kitschiest pink.”
Earlier than Roland Blum begins taking pictures, he takes loads of time to construct up a relationship with the panorama. Normally this occurs with lengthy walks, if doable particularly at night time. Throughout the day, he research the sunshine, which performs an elementary function in his work. His timeless photographic works are very paying homage to portray. Roland Blum might maybe greatest be described as a painter of sunshine, and portray with gentle is pictures within the truest sense of the phrase.
The artist
Roland Blum (born 1966 in Grabs in Liechtenstein) lives and works in Schaan. He studied music on the Jazz Faculty and the Conservatory in Lucerne. His important works are summary aerial pictures. They’ve received prizes at numerous worldwide competitions and might at the moment be seen on the Venice Biennale within the Namibian pavilion.
