Bernd Nicolaisen, Restlicht, Bsinti, Braunwald, CH, 2018-2019

The inner life of glaciers
Bsinti, Braunwald, CH, 26.12.2018 - 16.3.2019

Swiss photographer Bernd Nicolaisen (*1959) has explored the structures and surfaces of glaciers in Switzerland and Iceland with his large format camera over several years. He has been especially fascinated by the extreme light conditions in the ‘eternal’ ice - the way the light dips and breaks gently in the mornings and evenings, how it is reflected on the surfaces and searches to penetrate water that froze a thousand years ago.

He documented these fantastic places with great care and effort, and put them on film in an artistically most sophisticated way. The resulting pictures from the period between 2014 and 2017 are unique documents of an unknown and at the same time disappearing world. After a successful exhibition of RESTLICHT in the crypt of the Great Minster in Zurich (10 July-21 August 2015) and at the Museum Gletschergarten in Luzern (12 May 2016-5 March 2017), BSINTI is showing a selection of the pictures by Bernd Nicolaisen. Among them a few photographs that are shown publically for the first time. The exhibition was created by Daniel Blochwitz.

Catalog
»Restlicht – Bernd Nicolaisen. Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes: Iceland 2004-2015.«
Preface Klaus Honnef, with texts by Andrea Henkens, Stephan Reisner, Christoph Sigrist, Andres Staeger
Design: Walter Stähli
Publisher: Hatje Cantz. German/English 2015. 192 Pages, 108 Images 25.2 x 30.2 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6