“Black and White Thinking” in Salzburg – kulturnews.de
The all-rounder also has a knack for the camera. The result can now be seen in Mozart’s birthplace.
Lars Eidinger is not only a famous actor in the cinema (“25 km/h”), TV (several appearances as a villain in “Tatort”) and on the theater stage (a member of the ensemble of the stage at Lehniner Platz in Berlin). The 46-year-old Berliner also works as a DJ and is a successful photographer. The exhibition “Black & White Thinking” with photographs by Eidinger is now running from July 22nd to September 19th at the Leica Gallery Salzburg.
Eidinger, who began posting photographs publicly on Instagram, wants to use his exceptions, which he also made with a Leica M11, to show reality unadulterated and also to capture nuances that appear in the polarized thinking – the “Black & White Thinking” of the title – often remain hidden. Eidinger finds the motifs in cities such as Berlin, Budapest and Cannes, on the street, on footpaths or in front of churches.
Lars Eidinger himself says about his photography: “My pictures stand in the tradition of the objet trouvé. That’s how I find the motives. I don’t stage or manipulate them. I’m interested in the invisible, what hides behind the illusion, the concealed.”
Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Chief Representative of Leica Galleries International, finds that thinking in black and white keeps you from seeing the world as it really is: complex, nuanced and full of nuances. “It is precisely these nuances that Lars Eidinger shows with his photo art – and with his very own fingerprint. It shows a flair for capturing social imbalance in all its facets – and sometimes a penchant for the grotesque.”
We were also very impressed by the exhibition that the Hamburger Kunsthalle put on with photographs by Lars Eidinger.
In the video, Eidinger takes a tour of this exhibition: