monodosis at Sella Berlin

the closing event on Saturday, October 19, starting at 5 p.m.

in the framework of the exhibition “Micronesia/Naòs” by Werner Huthmacher

in the former fire station of the Funkhaus Berlin.

On display were a current retrospective of the artist and photographer Werner Huthmacher, who has been working for several decades on the representation of existing spaces and the creation of new color spaces.

The finissage took place on Saturday, October 19, 2024, starting at 5 p.m., with a “Monodosis” concert installation by Christopher Dell on the vibraphone

at SellaBerlin Feuerwehr, Nalepastraße 25, 12459 Berlin.

The two large groups of works shown build on each other and correspond with each other.

“Naòs” (Temple) shows radiant, bright, reduced photographic works inspired by Le Courbousier’s architectural archetype of the “Maison Dom-Ino”, the reduction of a house to its reinforced concrete frame, to its idea, to its possibilities. Werner Huthmacher discovered such unfinished, fragmentary building constructions on his travels through Greece and reveals these built interstices with the help of their simple clarity and rough materiality. Through photography, the mundane buildings become temples, sculptural elements in the landscape.

In “Micronesia”, Werner Huthmacher breaks away from spatial observation and creates color spaces himself with non-representational photography. The powerful works have a direct effect on the space in which the viewer is located. They have freed themselves from the object, dissolving it in a movement of light and color.

While there is an ideal distance in representational photography, the non-representational works affect the entire room, regardless of depth, and change it.

Werner Huthmacher has been working with abstract photography for over 10 years. His artistic works have already been exhibited in the Bode Museum, the Federal Chancellery and currently in the Guest House of the Federal Government.

He is also one of the most renowned architectural photographers in the German-speaking world. Some of the resulting works will be presented in a supplementary exhibition.