O.T. (Version I), 2010
Slide projectors, slides with tinfoil
340 x 180 cm

Galerie Opdahl, Berlin, Germany
Photo: Eric Tschernow

Ulrich Vogl

O.T. (Version II)
2010

Slide projectors, slides with tinfoil
340 x 180 cm

Everybody knows how beautiful sunset can be. At the same time, a picture of it is most likely to turn out kitschy and meaningless. In his artistic work Ulrich Vogl uses the space of an art gallery to reinterpret and recreate such conventional phenomena in a more thoughtful way – at the same time giving space for the mystery that surrounds us to maintain the important balance between the object and the phenomena that they produce.

The piece O.T. consists of several neatly aligned slide projectors of different brands and sizes. Each one has a slide with a piece of an ordinary tin foil with small pinned holes in it. The light going through the wholes hits the wall suggesting a nightly skyline of a distant cityscape. Even though all projectors use the same type of lamps the colour of light differs from machine to machine - from bright white to a quite yellow much like different lights in a city while the ventilation of projectors produces calm, permanent but somewhat distanced sound. The piece draws the viewer in just like a movie - but unlike cinema it always maintains awareness of what it is, since the "making of" is always part of the piece.

Ulrich Vogl is a German artist living and working in Berlin. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1996-1999) and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (MA) (1999-2002) under Prof. Dieter Appelt. In 2004 Vogl completed his Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Since his first solo exhibition in 2006 at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin, Ulrich Vogl has presented his work around Europe, with solo shows in Italy (2009), Poland (2010), Germany (2010), Norway (2010) and most recently in Spain (2011) and recently many group exhibitions.