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Author: Mark Gisbourne, Niklas Maak, Wita Noack, Terence Riley, Kai Schiemenz & Guilherme Wisnik
Publisher: form + zweck
Size: 16 x 23 x 1 cms
Pages: 70
Illustrations: Color
Cover: Softcover
Publication date: 2017
ISBN: English / German 9783935053808
Michael Wesely is a German photographer who captures photos using extremely long camera exposures and a special technique he has been developing and refining since the 1990s. He takes mainly pictures of cities, buildings and landscapes that require periods of exposure of up to 26 months, as in the case of his work on the Potsdamer Platz redevelopment in Berlin. Wesely was invited by MoMA to document its own construction and renovation project in 2001.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions around the world, such as The Epic View at Mies Van der Rohe Haus in Berlin (2014), An other pencil of nature at NordLB art gallery in Hannover (2013), mortos –vivos at the Centro Cultural in Sao Paulo (2012).
As part of an artistic Project for the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Barcelona, Michael Wesely with this special self-made camera and ultra-long exposure will reveal the passage of time and the ever-changing light trace that take place here at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
The resulting image will be part of a series of works related to the Centenary of the Bauhaus.