Mario Klinger

The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present works by German photographer Mario Klinger in an exhibition entitled SUBLIME PORTE. The opening will take place on Friday 17 May at 8pm in the presence of the artist whose limited edition ‘artist book’ SATORI ROOM will be available for sale.

Mario Klinger’s SUBLIME PORTE captures the undefinable space of possible knowledge that exists due to the relationship between the inner-world of familiar cognitive perception and the outer-world of unknown physical existence. Klinger’s work explores the insurmountable rift, which exists in between these two worlds through the use of light as a visual metaphor.

The exhibition consists of three aphorisms; Infinite Morning, Being and The Sublime Porte, which describe the overall substance of Klinger’s Satori Room, as well as the eponymous titles of the works in this series (2007-2009). Infinite Morning shows inanimate 'sublime' landscapes, the nebulous mist blocking the infinite nature as a universal factor. Klinger captures the sun in the series Being, overcoming the outmoded mimetic conventions of the camera by creating a new ’perceptive organ’, from which a completely new universe of abstract allegories arises. The break-in of the maybe most abstract form – a rectangle – into the art sphere reached the zero-point with Malevitch's Black Square (1913). From this point on its development was the intellectual transformation of reality into the language of signs and abstraction. The last group of images maximises this contrast: black monumental rectangles breaking into the misty landscapes named The Sublime Porte whose measurements reach far beyond the horizon through the co-existence of nature and abstraction.