For Laurenz Theinert (b.1953, Germany. Lives and works in Stuttgart), the visible world is merely a starting point that allows him to use the means of photography to investigate the medium itself, as well as processes in space and time. His research is intuitive rather than planned, and results in images of great creative lucidity.
Using light as a medium, he succeeds in creating changing colour effects and intimating movement.
In his Randerscheinungen [Peripheral Phenomena], Theinert reverses the photographer’s conventional gaze: instead of concentrating on a central motif, he focuses his attention on the usually insignificant margins of his visual field. For instance, in the multi-part series Every Now and Then and Tagundnachtgleiche [Equinox], he examines the way color changes in different light situations. And in the series Farbreste [Leftover Colors], his concern is with visualizing colors that are present in even the greyest of greys in a concrete wall or stretch of masonry, enhancing them by means of digital image processing to create psychedelic color compositions.
