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MARIO KLINGER
Sublime Porte
18 May – 11 June 2010
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The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present
works by German photographer Mario Klinger in an exhibition
entitled SUBLIME PORTE. The opening will take place on Friday 7
May at 8pm in the presence of the artist whose limited edition
‘artist book’ SATORI ROOM will be available for sale.
Mario Klinger’s SUBLIME PORTE captures the undefinable space of
possible knowledge that exists due to the relationship between
the inner-world of familiar cognitive perception and the
outer-world of unknown physical existence. Klinger’s work
explores the insurmountable rift, which exists in between these
two worlds through the use of light as a visual metaphor.
The exhibition consists of three aphorisms; Infinite Morning,
Being and The Sublime Porte, which describe the overall
substance of Klinger’s Satori Room, as well as the eponymous
titles of the works in this series (2007-2009). Infinite Morning
shows inanimate 'sublime' landscapes, the nebulous mist blocking
the infinite nature as a universal factor. Klinger captures the
sun in the series Being, overcoming the outmoded mimetic
conventions of the camera by creating a new ’perceptive organ’,
from which a completely new universe of abstract allegories
arises. The break-in of the maybe most abstract form – a
rectangle – into the art sphere reached the zero-point with
Malevitch's Black Square (1913). From this point on its
development was the intellectual transformation of reality into
the language of signs and abstraction. The last group of images
maximises this contrast: black monumental rectangles breaking
into the misty landscapes named The Sublime Porte whose
measurements reach far beyond the horizon through the
co-existence of nature and abstraction.
Mario Klinger’s solo exhibitions include the mbf-Kunstprojekte
Munich, Satori Room, 2010, mbf-Kunstprojekte, Freiburg,
Metaphors, Allegories, Aphorisms and Symbols, 2007 and Physical
Implications in Contemporary Photography, 2006 in the Department
of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.
Selected group exhibitions include QQArt e.V., Energie, Hilden;
Art and Physics Today, Kunstverein Uelzen, 2009 and NOMA,
Westtor, Murnau, Noneart, Bardolino, Italy. In 2007 Klinger was
awared <Artist of the Year> by the Sophist Group, Nürnberg.
Publications include the Artist Book: Mario Klinger - Satori
Room, A Sublime Port to Premoral Esthesia, mbf-Kunstprojekte,
München 2009; Ausstellkat: Mario Klinger - Metaphern, Allegorien,
Aphorismen und Symbole: mbf-Kunstprojekte, Freiburg 2007; and
Mario Klinger & Veit Ziegelmaier: Mario Klinger - Human Nature,
Hrsg: mbf-Kunstprojekte, Freiburg 2006. Mario Klinger was born
in 1978 in Nurenberg, Germany. He lives and works in Munich and
Rome.