White Album

Bernd Uhde's search for traces in landscapes of silence. An impressionistic shimmering of dark dots in front of a bright expanse. Pattern of scattered characters and feathery braids on a white background. Horizontal and vertical bands that form a constructive composition in the white field. A white frame in which another white space extends like a blank canvas.

On closer inspection, the abstractions are filled with representational content: birds have left the finest imprints on a snow-covered field, condensing into a whirling pattern in a white sphere. Brown and green streaks across a snowy pasture. Winter trees produce branching ornaments. And a swimming pool filled with snow becomes a monochrome painting - a "frame without a picture".

The landscapes and urban terrains cultivated by humans, which he captures with the camera hovering vertically from above at a height of between a hundred and a thousand meters, are "readymades", visual finds whose aesthetic potential is enhanced by the distant view is only released and reveals itself.