Bernhard Lang - AV_Summer_013

Edition Aerial Views Bernhard Lang
Image: "AV_Summer_013"
Size C: 40 x 50 cm, 15,7 x 19,6 inch
No 1 of 30, Limited Edition Fine Art Print.
Captured in 2013 in Germany

Printed on Hahnemuehle Fine Art Photo paper in museumquality with Archival pigment print.
The Fine Art Print has an additional white 5 cm wide photo-paper-border (can be cropped for framing).
Delivered without frame, signed and numbered on the white paperborder, bottom right.
Included is a certificate of authenticity and a separate signed label to stick on the back when mounted.
Printed right after auction's end, with one week turnaround.
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The AERIAL VIEWS "SUMMER" PHOTO SERIES:

“Bernhard Lang's photos are proof that, when viewed from above, we are the weirdest intruders on planet earth! The human figures in his photos seem almost unreal, like colorful playmobils with no sense of their own existence. It is almost funny to see them spend their spare time under the sun or swimming carefree in a river or swimming pool. Under this perspective or indeed microscope, Lang's work is a reminder that whatever our life and our problems may be, a zoom out picture will always reveal that we are just small creatures, nothing more than a tiny reflection of the universe. Lang's stills look like paintings. This is due to the amazing color pallet of his work that intensifies the impression that nature, rather than the photographed, is painted on canvas. The green of the trees and the blue of the deep sea in his photos remind us that the universe we are part of is definitely worth living. Moreover, one cannot but admire Lang's talent to turn a simple view into a deep sensorial experience. His aerial views are the triumph of mankind in a natural environment that both scares and amazes. Standing somewhere between the earth and the sky, his work is an act of liberation; a colorful celebration of life in its most."
APOSTOLOS MITSIOS, Online-Magazine Yatzer

THE ARTIST:

Since 2010, Bernhard Lang is capturing the earth's surface in his photo series "Aerial Views".
To take these pictures from the heavens, Lang takes off in helicopters and small aircrafts.

Lang's work has been published in Times Magazin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, Wired, National Geographic Magazin, Corriere della Sera, Zeit Magazin, art magazine, mare, FAZ, Stern, Spiegel, SZ,  ... and and has produced artistic content for Apple, Aston Martin, Akris, Getty Images Creative, Sundek, Deutsche Welle TV Channel, …

He's aiming to find interesting looking patterns and structures on the surface of our planet. He also takes particular interest in capturing images, that show the impact of human’s activities on the nature and environment.
Lang’s images free us from the bonds of gravity and allow us to take a more detached look at the world and our effect on it — both good and bad. It is this duality that lang is most interested in investigating through his work, the strange balance between beauty and destruction, and the ongoing struggle for symbiosis between human kind and the earth we inhabit.

Lang’s work has been shown in several exhibitions worldwide, and his exclusively limited, museum quality Fine Art Prints are held in corporate and private collections.

AWARDS:

2023 ND Awards 1ST Honorable Mention, The BOG RENATURATION Series
2020 ND Awards 1ST Place Gold Star, STAHLWERK Series
2017 ND Awards 1ST Place Gold Star, Manila Overpopulation Series
2017 Gold Winner Graphis Photography Annual, Adria Series
2016 ND Nature Photographer Of The Year, ND Awards 1ST Place Gold Star, Circle Irrigation Series
2016 Prix Pictet Nomination, Adria Series
2015 SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Professional Winner Travel, Adria Series
2015 International Photography Awards (ipa), Winner Professional Fine Art, Abstract, Mar del Plastico Series
2015 Trierenberg Super Circuit, Goldmedal Kategorie „Seen from Above“, Adria Series
2014 ND Awards, London 1ST Place Gold Star in Category Architecture-Industrial, Harbour Series
2014 International Photography Awards (ipa), 3rd Place Architecture-Industrial, Harbour Series
2013 One Eyeland Awards, 1ST Place Gold in Category Architecture-Aerial, Harbour Series

Selected Exhibitions:

2025 Drente, Netherlands, De Proef, Limbo - The Bog
2025 Hamburg, Germany, Barlach Halle, Art Photo Salon
2023 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Galerie Heussenstamm
2022 Havana, Cuba, 14. Bienal De La Habana
2021 Ingolstadt, Germany, Museum für Konkrete Kunst: "bernhard lang _ mit abstand am schoensten"
2019 Bend, Oregon, USA, High Desert Museum, "Fueling the Future/Energizando el Futuro", Solar Power Plants
2018 Bangkok, Thailand, Art and Culture Centre, "Beyond The Air We Breathe, Adressing Climate Change", Mar del Plastico
2016 Mexico City , Chapultepec Park, "Lucie Foundation at C40 Mayors Summit“, Mar del Plastico, Harbour
2016 London, Getty Images Gallery: "6x6“,  Adria
2015 Den Haag, Netherlands, The Mesdag Collection, Adria
2015 Berlin Willy-Brandt-Haus, Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Adria
2015 Galerie Liusa Wang, Solo Show, Coal Mine
2015 London Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at the Somerset House London, Adria
2011 London Getty Gallery: "It Takes More Exhibition", Winter Aerials