Exhibition
DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY - Johnny Linder
In seeking and creating images based on photosensitive materials, graphic and performative processes, Johnny Linder explores themes of the unpredictable and relative. What moves us when we don't know what's coming? How do subtle processes manifest themselves in images that pursue their own uncontrollable dynamics? Where is the border between finding and changing, individual techniques, media, levels of meaning?
About his art
The artistic work of Johnny Linder moves between painting, photography, video works and conceptual approaches.
His photographic images are created in a chemical, physical way without the use of a camera. Johnny Linder uses the technical processes of creating images, experimenting with different papers and light-sensitive chemicals.
He uses the photographic material both as a carrier and as the content of the image. Photographic tools are transformed from medium to actual image object. Chance flows into this working process of finding and losing the image, so that mistakes and boundary conditions can become central motifs.
"Instead of fixing illusionary snapshots of reality, I'm looking for images that deal with materiality, permanence, and time."
– quote Johnny Linder
Untitled spatial research (rectangle II), successive changes due to daylight, Fine art prints laminated on Alu Dibond, series of 10 images, each 30x20 cm
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Repixel (f.e.f.b.), pixelated image recreated with individual squares of partially developed/fixed silver gelatin paper; successive transformation by light, 70 x 120 cm
"I just didn't fix things during the developing process, and because of that, they stay in the developing process. They are images that will also gradually change in color."
says Johnny Linder, who exhibits processes in this exhibition by successively exposing the works to daylight during the exhibition period.
For example, the above-mentioned photographic work Repixel remains consistently covered until the exhibition begins, only to be exposed to the process of change by daylight at the vernissage.
The process of transience
In the center of the room is a 120 cm high wooden pedestal built by the artist, on which is a glass box with light-sensitive papers. The visitor is invited to intervene in this artistic work, or rather in the exposure processes of the papers, by removing the top sheet and allowing the next sheet to be exposed to daylight.
Small series
All of Johnny Linder's works have a delicate understated aesthetic with great painterly potential.
"Created in an unstable medium, my works are visualizations of transient processes that exist only for a short time." – Johnny Linder
About the artist - Johnny Linder
Johnny Linder (*1991) first studied art and French and since 2019 has been active in artistic teaching activities, sometimes also as a lecturer in camera less photography. Since 2021, he has been pursuing a diploma in fine arts in Vienna.
His artistic work moves between image-making, searching and performative processes, largely based on the use of defective material from the field of analog photography and dealing with the themes of temporality, fragility and the unknown.
Johnny Linder
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„DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY“ - Johnny Linder
from August 25 to October 1, 2022
Wed: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fri: 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Sat: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
KWS Art Lounge NEWCOMER, Tiedexer Straße 20, 37574 Einbeck
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