Exhibition
Walter Niedermayr's main theme is the mountainous region of the Alps and its conquest by modern leisure-time society. The artist mounts his temporary and yet solid markers, in the shape of large-format, mostly multi-part photographic works, in a natural setting. Niedermayer's approach to the landscapes he creates does not primarily involve the romantic gaze or critical discourse, but rather a construction of complex spaces. No monumental or majestic perspective is being cultivated.Niedermayer develops his approach as an act of distancing.
The photographic works are usually comprised of two or more parts, where space is stretched, deconstructed through numerous overlaps, and put together again as an artificial panorama, an artful conclave. The time that elapses between the individual photographs is also used as an artistic element. Occasionally, the same person turns up several times in the same work. The stretching of the pictorial space through overlapping subjects is combined with a temporal sequence, and the size and scope of the landscape are newly constructed.
