ABOUT

Some reflections..

With my technique of the analog double exposures I found my own expression for capturing space and time in multiple views within one picture.

We are used to view a 2D picture while we are aware of all these composition rules and these descriptive definitions of top and bottom, left and right ...But I think it is very useful to leave all these well known habits behind, to find out what is the spirit of these pictures.

Since 2013 I developed beside my media artwork this analog photographic way to merge down different situations from 3D space and the time flows in one unique picture together. When I was capuring and editing video sequences I had the only option to keep life moments in the flow of time, but now in a quite similar process I am just using a static media with a sequential input.

The way of looking at moments and places, pre-visualizing and practicing these turned around double shots has becoming more and more an intense reflection for myself about photography itself so as a reflection about the fluctuation of time and the transience of moments.....

Stephan Theurich, August 2017

Stephan Theurich’s Double and Multiple Exposures (2014/2015)

Born in 1968 in Darmstadt in Germany, he started in 1991 his fine art studies in performing and visual arts in Bonn at the “Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences”. There he concentrated in sculpture and three-dimensional designs in clay and plaster. From 1999 to 2002 Stephan Theurich visited the fine arts classes in Basel at the University for Design and Art (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, HGK FHNW) and afterwards worked as an art teacher, while performing several media art projects. Drawing and working in 3D naturally, has always been an important aspect of his artistic education in Bonn. For his sculptures Theurich used diverse materials as clay and plaster, wood, metal and stone. Later on, since 1998, he startet his first media art installations with super8 film loops and environmental slide shows.

Now, from 2013 on, Stephan Theurich restarted with immense energy his series of double exposures. While the double or multiple exposure is a well known photographical technique, turning the camera by 180 degrees at the second shot is a very innovative artistic step. It's a real turnaround move that changes everything. The whole impression of the picture gets completely new.