Tobias Kaspar

installation view (in low light) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (in low light) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (flash photography from the side) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (in low light) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (flash photography) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (in low light) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (in low light) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 435 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 135 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 135 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 135 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (flash photography) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 135 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view (sideview) at Silberkuppe, Berlin
Untitled (2016), laser engraved reflective fabric, 135 x 175 x 3 cm

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installation view at Silberkuppe, Berlin

all images courtesy the artist and Silberkuppe, Berlin

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TOBIAS KASPAR is currently presenting a series of new works that look rather austere at first sight. Nevertheless the pieces in his exhibition at Silberkuppe in Berlin reveal an enigmatic intensity. The show features a couple of wall works made of shimmering gray reflective fabric stretched like monochrome canvas. According to the viewpoint of the visitor, the intensity of the light as well as the use of a camera flash, these light-sensitive surfaces simultaneously conceal and reveal the presence of engraved motifs.

By using light as a way to compose a space, to create depth and to render tangible a visual experience offered by a picture, TOBIAS KASPAR plays with the history of representation and the codes of Western painting even though he does not actually use this medium. Additionally these works are all called Untitled (2016), an attitude that reminds post-minimalist or post-conceptual position. This work is also for me entirely linked to photography. I noticed that, when I take installation views, I try to have various light-situations of the space, showing the different effects light gives to the exhibition in the space. The light-reflecting fabrics also work in relation to the amount of light falling in and according to the angle at which it is falling in.

Finally the classical tradition can be read in the presentation of the work’s materials and in its relation to the viewer. KASPAR invites the latter to challenge the conditions in which an image appears, to reflect on his/her own assumptions on temporality, and to question the construction of perception within a materiality.

This exhibition is on view until March 5, 2016 at Silberkuppe, Berlin

Source: http://www.we-find-wildness.com/2016/02/tobias-kaspar/