TOBIAS MADÖRIN — TOPOS — CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL PROSPECTS
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION / BOOK LAUNCH – : – : – : – 14.03.–18.04.2014
For more than twenty years, Swiss photographer Tobias Madörin has been working on his photo series Topos. Creating staged tableaux in the manner of nineteenth-century painters, Madörin investigates the interaction between the inhabitants and their surrounding environments in countries as diverse as Spain, Uganda, Indonesia, and Japan. His large-scale images examine communal spaces, the outskirts of metropolises, waste disposal sites, and landscapes marked by agriculture and mining. Madörin’s work reveals that these locations are the products of human visions and ideals, yet they are also places of environmental exploitation. This tension, as well as Madörin’s intelligent and empathetic approach to his subjects, makes his photographs evocative and complex. The book includes lavish, full-page photographs, many of which have never been published previously, and an introductory essay by Nadine Olonetzky that explains and contextualizes the photographer’s oeuvre.
Exhibition Duration: 14.03.—25.04.2014
Artist's Talk/Finissage: Friday, 25 April 2014, 6 pm
Link to the Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
Link to the artist's homepage: Tobias Madörin
TOPOS — CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL PROSPECTS: Cities and landscapes as places of human existence: Tobias Madörin's work from two decades. Edited and with an essay by Nadine Olonetzky. Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess (CH), ISBN 978-3-85881-372-5
