thomas eigel
photographer
Airplanes
While we now take a critical view of flying itself, airplanes have lost none of their aesthetics and the fascination they exert on us.
Voyages
A praise for the blur. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in "Wilhelm Meister's Wander Years" questioned the unconditional use of sharpness of vision, like through glasses: "... I see more than I should see, the sharper world does not harmonize with my inner being, and I quickly put the glasses down again when my curiosity about how this or that is supposed to be satisfied is satisfied. " Thomas Eigel seems to have followed a similar line of thought and counteracts the everyday sensory overload in his pleasantly blurred images. He looks at the world from within, no camera seems to be involved in his creations. He transforms shapes and colors into pure energy and also plays with the limits of abstraction in his photographic experiments. Horst Kloever / photeur.net
Traveller
Thomas Eigel’s "Travelers" series has enough symbolic power and a gigantic visual power. In a route away from that of the digital flow, but parallel in function, the containers are the vehicle that makes the dominant world real, or that every day builds the world that dominates us. There’s nothing that can’t circulate, and there’s no geographic point that can’t be reached by this metal crate inscribed with inaccessible codes and initiatory marks. José Vegar, Portuguese Writer
Turntables
Colors on a rotating platter. Hypnotically and meditatively, the images are set in rotation.
Portrait
The intent of a Portrait is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of a person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. wikipedia.org
Water from
Similar to the fruiting bodies of mushrooms, hydrants bear witness to a complex network of underground supply lines and demonstrate the progress of civilization.
Biography
thomas eigel, born in 1959, has been at home in photography for over 35 years. he first worked as an advertising photographer and then as an art director and agency owner. now he has come full circle: in his photography today, he reduces the subjects to the essentials through abstraction, whereby the subjects or scenes depicted are still recognizable or can be guessed at, and it is precisely through this reduction that their appeal develops. thomas eigel lives and works in hamburg.
Single exhibitions
2021
Babeland / MEVOC - Hamburg, Germany
2008
Dark Star / Landtag NRW - Düsseldorf, Germany
2007
Fine Art Cologne / Fine Art Cologne - Cologne, Germany
2007
Exhibition / Gallery Jan Schlütter - Cologne, Germany
2006
Eyes Wide Open / Gallery Vero Wollmann - Stuttgart, Germany
2005
Lisa Lounge / Crowne Plaza City Centre - Cologne, Germany
2004
Conversion / Young Gallery - Brussels, Belgium
Group exhibitions
2017
xponart goes x / Xpon-Art Gallery - Hamburg, Germany
2013
Show off / Xpon-Art Gallery - Hamburg, Germany
2013
Spirit Unlimited / International Art Circle - Hamburg, Germany
2011
Berliner Kunstsalon / Berlin Art Salon - Berlin, Germany
2006
Colour Summer / Young Gallery - Brussels, Belgium
Contact
thomas eigel
andreasstr.31, d-22301 hamburg
mail@thomaseigel.com
Lumas, Berlin, Germany
ArtStar, NYC, USA
Singulart, Paris, France
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thomas eigel
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mail@thomaseigel.com
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