Max Sudhues: Shadows of the Future

 

Dismantling of the obsolete projectors led Max Sudhues to the idea of creating a kind of shadow scenery that makes up a smart and poetic antipode to technological enthusiasm. His lighting collages combine elements of digital and analogue worlds to create an experimental foundation for an intense sensorial experience based on recycling and a newly created dispositive of otherwise entirely functional elements. The artist bases his work on deconstruction and reuse of rejected technology, by means of which he creates ambiences emanating a futuristic vision of the world in which technology had lost its original function and meaning while becoming merely an actor of aesthetical contemplation.

 

Max Sudhues was born in Munster, Germany. He studied at the Department of Philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin, and worked as a volunteer in film and theatre productions. Later he enrolled at the Fine Arts Academy in his native Munster, and then accomplished his MA studies of art at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Gent and Antwerp, Belgium. His principal field of research as an artist is the technique of collage: through the use of contemporary technological elements he endeavours to invest it with new expressive dimensions. His work is frequently marked with elements of surrealist fantasy. Currently he lives and works in Berlin.

/8 Sept.-10. Oct. 12.00 AM-11.30 PM. Closed on Mondays./