Michael Michlmayr: Time Stories
© Michael Michlmayr, Calendar 1 - March 2016
Time Stories: 36 Days
Michael Michlmayr’s works are basically concerned with the relationship between time and space (Time Spaces --Passages -- began in 2002 and continues today). There is another component that frequently comes into play: natural or artificial light with which he – oscillating between action and reality – does not only attempt to visualise changes in space and the passing of time in photographic images but also underlines their atmospheric, colour and thus key visual qualities.
In his project, 36 DAYS the sun outside my window made extremely long – 24-hour-a-day – exposures over a period of 36 days of the landscape outside his window.
This resulted in depicting the sun’s orbit with its changing position, light intensity and quality throughout the period. While the photographer or rather the camera remained in the same position in the studio, the exterior world was in constant movement.
(left image: Detail of Calendar 1)
36 Tage Referenz #1 (below) shows the superimposition of sunlight and also compresses the passing of 36 days.
Although the picture made use of black and white lm material, it reveals colour values and the damage to the negative done by the intense sunlight, conveying an atmosphere that is both poetic and timeless or even supra-temporal. In other photo works that are also pictures of abstracted reality, Michlmayr is concerned with representing the passage of time and a feeling for space by using light. (Image above displays a detail from Calendar 1, © Michael Michlmay)
© Michael Michlmayr, Days Referenz’1, March 2016
© Michael Michlmayr, Days Referenz’2, October 2016