left: Company Town, 2007,
hand-tinted silver gelatin print
middle: Marfa Lights, 2007, hand tinted silver gelatin print
right: Time Is Another, 2007, hand tinted silver gelatin print
(detail)
What began as playful experimentation over 20 years ago, has through twists
and turns, inspiration and persistence became a way of seeing and a personal
language.
From a purly technical point of view, the Ziegler uses photography as a point of departure. The images are photographed from moving vehicles at a slow shutter speed. The camera is held as still as possible, and the sense of motion comes from the scene being gently "smeared" across the film. Prints are made on matte surface paper and then are hand-colored by working pastels directly into the surface of the paper.
In a sense, these images are about the temporal aspect of our lives. They provide the opportunity to spend extended time with moments that are normally very brief - even fleeting. These small slices of time create enough space to trigger a sense of recognition, or of having actually been there. They eschew the specific moment in favor of a broader experience. Kinetic States is not about a world speeding by but about time slowed down, about the journey rather than the destination.
Reinhard Ziegler
Selected Exhibitions:
Forbes Galleries, New York, NY
Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
DW Gallery, Dallas, TX
PhotoWork Gallery, Austin, TX
Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX
Meadows Gallery, Dallas, TX
Jones and Hobbs Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Brookhaven Forum Gallery, Dallas, TX
Selected Collections:
Accenture
GTE
The Rosewood Corporation
Southern Methodist University
Andersen Consulting
Delta Airlines
Digital Equipment Corporation
Domino's Pizza
RTKL Architects-International
Texas Instruments
TGI Friday's