Exhibitions of Robert Voit at Galerie—Peter—Sillem |
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Galerie—Peter—SillemDEGalerie—Peter—Sillem +49 69-61995550 info@galerie-peter-sillem.com Wed 10-16, Thu 10-18, Fri 10-16, Sat 14-16 Aequilibrium11 Mar – 8 May 2021
Ten years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Daiichi, we are holding a solo exhibition by the Munich-based artist Robert Voit, who has been traveling to Fukushima year after year since the disaster, documenting its aftermath.
Over the years, Robert Voit also started to portray Mount Fuji. This exhibition presents both facets of the Japanese present, the long-term consequences of the disaster and the timeless appearance of Mount Fuji.
Writes Pico Iyer in his essay for the … Galerie—Peter—SillemDEGalerie Peter Sillem +49 69-61995550 info@galerie-peter-sillem.com Wed 10-16, Thu 10-18, Fri 10-16, Sat 14-16 hide & seek2 Mar – 13 Apr 2019
Robert Voit, former master class student of Thomas Ruff at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, became known to a wider public with his series "New Trees". With this documentary work about mobile phone masts, which are camouflaged with giant coniferous tree, palm or cactus covers or disguised as flagpoles or even church crosses, he dedicates himself to the questions of authenticity and artificiality, nature and culture: What is still real in our world and what is only a backdrop? |