Lecture by Prof. Claudia Blümle: »Schwarzer Glanz. Die materialisierten Schattenbilder von Oliver Thie«

The presentation was held in German in the TA T anatomy theater or streamed online via Zoom, followed by a tour of the exhibition with Oliver Thie and Felix Sattler.

Claudia Blümle spoke about the silhouettes by the Berlin artist Oliver Thie, which could be seen in the Tieranatomisches Theater under the title »Die Wahrheit über den Ursprung zur «. With the help of an overhead projector and transparent paper covered with soot, the artist captured silhouettes of rocks as shadow images. The specific materiality of the image carrier created an image effect similar to the visual nature of a stone. Thus the approach to the stones was reflected not only in the sketched outline of the projected object but also in the material structure of the processed paper and in the variably shiny and matt surface of the picture. On the basis of these observations and the art and media history of silhouettes, the lecture showed how Oliver Thie's group of works provokes reflection on the relationship between the ur image and the representation as well as on the relationship between image, image object and their materiality.

Claudia Blümle has been Professor of the History and Theory of Form at the Institute of Art and Image History of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2014 and since she is 2019 Head of the Object Space Agency research group at »Matters of Activity«. From 2009 to 2014 she held the professorship for aesthetics and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts Münster.