Galerie Tschudi

Balthasar Burkhard

Work by Balthasar Burkhard

Biography

b. 1944, Bern (CH)

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Photographs capture moments. A glimpse is extracted from the flow of time and preserved. Temporality attaches to the photograph, however. Viewers instinctively seek to participate in the moment depicted; they reconstruct a before and an after, a narrative without a context. In a certain way their imagination re-starts the flow of time frozen in the image. Balthasar Burkhard’s photos are different. His use of black and white is the only structural device of his images. Motifs, objects and scenes emerge from the darkness, as if the photographer had placed them in front of a neutral backdrop. Burkhard manages to “compose” still lifes without staging them. Our focus is wholly absorbed by the motifs, which seem to appear naturally, without forcing themselves on the viewer. Even a complex sprawl such as the rainforest on the Rio Negro, its complexity doubled by its reflection in the river, appears like a careful composition that directs our gaze. Burkhard’s photographs do not capture a moment, referring to a time before and after; this is a photography of the timeless image.

Past Exhibitions

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Bernina, 2003

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
125 × 250 cm
BB/F 141

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Bernina, 2003

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
125 × 250 cm
BB/F 137

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Chlönthal, 2001

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
260 × 125 xm
BB/F 33

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Mexico, 1999

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
70 × 100 cm
BB/F 297

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Rio Negro, 2002

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame, two parts
240 × 184 cm overall
BB/F 62

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Shanghai, 2005

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame, three parts
overall 200 × 300 cm
BB/F 251

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Rio Negro, 2002

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
62 × 162 cm
BB/F 89

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Normandie, 1995

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
102 × 152 cm
BB/F 19

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Himmel, 2003

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
111 × 167 cm
BB/F 99

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Ciudad, 1999

3-channel video installation
BB/V 1

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Ciudad, 1999

3-channel video installation
BB/V 1

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Cuba, 2005

c-print, iron frame
180 × 180 cm
BB/F 252

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Torso, 1984

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
225 × 126 cm
BB/F 1

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Torso, 2007

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
225 × 126 cm
BB/F 257

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Silberen, 2004

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
125 × 158 cm
BB/F 178

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Silberen, 2004

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
125 × 158 cm
BB/F 179

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Namib, 2000

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
69 × 104 cm
BB/F 28

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Flowers (Phlox), 2009

c-print, wooden frame
129 × 129 cm
BB/F 282

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Japan (Mt. Koya, Okuno-in Sando), 2005

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, wood frame
21 × 21 cm
BB/F 221

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Japan (Mt. Koya, Okuno-in Sando), 2005

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, wood frame
21 × 21 cm
BB/F 220

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Rio Negro, 2002

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
60 × 160 cm
BB/F 51

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Rio Negro, 2002

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, wood frame
49 × 32.5 cm
BB/F 72

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Rio Negro, 2002

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
125 × 158 cm
BB/F 60

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Chlönthal, 2003

gelatin silver print on baryt paper, iron frame
100 × 125 cm
BB/F 96

Editions & Prints

Books

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Südostschweiz

Die Galerie Tschudi zeigt drei Könner der Schlichtheit

Marina U. Fuchs

2 September 2015

Vor 30 Jahren wurde in Glarus die heute in Zuoz beheimatete Galerie Tschudi gegründet - gefeiert wird im Winter. In diesem Sommer stellen Alan Charlton, Dan Walsh und Balthasar Burkhard gemeinsam aus.

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