BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS

BERND NICOLAISEN – AMEDEO BAUMGARTNER - MUSÉE JURASSIEN DES ARTS



March 16 – May 26, 2024
Curated by Valentine Raymond and Daniel Blochwitz

CATALOG, 2024 With essays by Valentine Reymond, Adam Lowe, Daniel Blochwitz, Leila Zimmermann and Amedeo Baumgartner.

French / German
152 pages, Illustrated with 68 color plates, Hardback, 23 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-2-9700757-9-0
Design by Huber/Sterzinger
Published by Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH

Special thanks to Series “Comet in Deep Space”
Professor Dr. Nicolas Thomas from the Universitiy of Bern and Dr. Holger Sierks of Max Planck Institute for Solar System Reserch, Göttingen. Photo Credit: Bernd Nicolaisen based on the Rosetta OSIRIS cameras: ESA / Rosetta /MPS for OSIRIS Team

Series “Strata of Pilbara”
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, University of New South Wales and Professor Kathleen Campbell, University of Auckland

Collaboration: The 3 D print and tableaux, CNC-milled into alabaster and gesso works were created with the studio Factumarte and Adam Lowe, Madrid.
Additional photography Bernd Nicolaisen



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN

RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes
Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes
Iceland 2004-2015


Glaciers, volcanoes, and caverns: the Swiss photographer Bernd Nicolaisen compiled unique images of these features of the landscape in the pictures he took in Iceland between 2004 and 2015. He paid special attention to the Breiðamerkurjökull, a glacial lobe of the Vatnajökull located in the southeast of the country, a place he visited several times and observed extensively. Much time was spent on capturing aspects of the glacier with an eight-byten- inch large-format camera. His photography, initially in analogue before progressing to digital, requires a lot of time and effort to “transform what is basic into what is unique.” The pictures depict nature in a seemingly untouched and magical way, and often appear to be images from a remote planet, showing places of solitude, silence, melancholia, and even spirituality. In his conceptual design of natural forms, human intervention rarely, if ever, becomes apparent. No humans, creatures, or signs of civilization are portrayed, so that the sublime, wild, and pristine qualities in the grandiose nature of glaciers, arctic sea, and mountain ranges can be appreciated. Abstract shapes invite the spectator to behold and linger. Nothing is staged, yet the images achieve a virtually radiant magic. They show the magnitude and majestic dignity of glaciers, composed into seemingly uneventful panels of stillness and calm. Monochrome tones and detailed surface structures appear, sometimes in captivating colors, ranging from surreal deep blue to shiny turquoise and sometimes fine hues of gray. Spectacular formations and the smallest lines and shapes are visible, and tiny details appear as ornaments in the high resolution and perfect quality of the pictures, which Nicolaisen develops and prints himself. Nicolaisen’s Restlicht photographs show the juxtaposition of opposing elements — ice and lava — in caves of a thousand years of glacial ice formation.

CATALOG
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)



Restlicht Bernd-Nicolaisen, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes Iceland 2004-2015, Hatje Cantz



RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes
Iceland 2004-2015


Glaciers, volcanoes, and caverns: the Swiss photographer Bernd Nicolaisen compiled unique images of these features of the landscape in the pictures he took in Iceland between 2004 and 2015. He paid special attention to the Breiðamerkurjökull, a glacial lobe of the Vatnajökull located in the southeast of the country, a place he visited several times and observed extensively. Much time was spent on capturing aspects of the glacier with an eight-byten- inch large-format camera. His photography, initially in analogue before progressing to digital, requires a lot of time and effort to “transform what is basic into what is unique.” The pictures depict nature in a seemingly untouched and magical way, and often appear to be images from a remote planet, showing places of solitude, silence, melancholia, and even spirituality. In his conceptual design of natural forms, human intervention rarely, if ever, becomes apparent. No humans, creatures, or signs of civilization are portrayed, so that the sublime, wild, and pristine qualities in the grandiose nature of glaciers, arctic sea, and mountain ranges can be appreciated. Abstract shapes invite the spectator to behold and linger. Nothing is staged, yet the images achieve a virtually radiant magic. They show the magnitude and majestic dignity of glaciers, composed into seemingly uneventful panels of stillness and calm. Monochrome tones and detailed surface structures appear, sometimes in captivating colors, ranging from surreal deep blue to shiny turquoise and sometimes fine hues of gray. Spectacular formations and the smallest lines and shapes are visible, and tiny details appear as ornaments in the high resolution and perfect quality of the pictures, which Nicolaisen develops and prints himself. Nicolaisen’s Restlicht photographs show the juxtaposition of opposing elements — ice and lava — in caves of a thousand years of glacial ice formation.

CATALOG
Bernd Nicolaisen – Restlicht
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland

With texts by Prof. Klaus Honnef, Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
Publisher: Hatje Cantz