04.11. - 30.12.2006

Opening 
Saturday, November 4, 7 - 9 pm
 

Gallery Antje Wachs is pleased to present photographies and a video by Swiss artist Christoph Schreiber for the first time in Berlin. The exhibition will be on view from 04. November until 30. December.

We are looking at a ruinous tower in front of a condensed, green forest of leaves, above arises a dramatically lighted sky. A buslike wagon, that looks ahead and from behind the same, is parked in front of bulging concrete building that reminds one of a bridge. A huge waterfall abyss, which opens itself in the middle of the picture to absorb masses of water, covered with fog that is directly enmeshed in the sky.

Because of the in all pictures really obvious absence of individuals and the retentive palette of colours the viewer is reminded of documentary- or classical landscape photography.
By looking closer at the scene and because of a feeling of irritation that appears now, one can recognize constructed and in the shown way not possible natural phenomenons.

Christoph Schreiber is not interested in a realistic rendering of our environment, but rather in the invention, combinatorics and free arrangement of the located motives.
Schreibers’ pictures result from working in the studio at his computer while using digital manipulation. Because of this, the artist sees himself close to the tradition of painting: the landscape paintings of romanticism also often emerged in the studio on the base of sketches that were done outside before, so that most of the times it was hard to identify the finished painted andscape in real nature.

The constructed picture worlds of Schreiber pretend to be reality, but animate for further reflection because of their scurrility and peculiarity. At the same time the viewer may sense a feeling of irritation or even threat.
In the video work shown in the project room the artist uses the same way of newly- and differently assambly of picture fragments and sequences as in his photography. A vehicle equipped with all kinds of diverse flash lights and warning hooters is caught in a neverending circular flow. This could be seen as an indicator for the permanent alert in which the US politics has gotten entangled since 9/11. There has been published an accompanying catalogue.

Biography: Christoph Schreiber has been born in Wädenswil (CH) in 1970. He lives and works in New York and Zurich. | 1990 – 95 studies fine art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich | 1997 – 2002 studies law at the University of Zurich (lic.iur.) Selected exhibitions: 2006 Galerie Antje Wachs *, Berlin | Galerie Bob Gysin *, Zürich | 2005 Bekanntmachungen, Kunsthalle, Zürich | James Nicholson Gallery, New York | 2004 James Nicholson Gallery *, San Francisco | Galerie Friedrich *, Basel | 2003 Galerie Bob Gysin *, Zürich | natürlich gebaut - Die Landschaft zwischen Konstruktion und Narration, Helmhaus, Zürich |James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco | Babuschka, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen | Updating Landscapes, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Bellinzona (*:solo exhibitions)