- Visual Art
140 dB
Iris Ulbricht
28 June 2024 19:00 – 30 June 2024 19:00
Urban silence, that is primarily a relative silence: The silence after the U-Bahn entered the station, the silence in a courtyard, the silence at 4 am when everybody is still fast asleep. But generally speaking it is the silence in the absence of noise.
Project 140 dB (i.e. 140 Decibels, the volume of an aero engine in short distance) is strongly connected to Tempelhofer Feld, the former airport Berlin THF, that influenced Neukölln considerably for decades. For in this place the lively background noise, a mixture of music, chatter, wind and the chirping of the field larks, feels like utter silence to the Berliner who still remembers the deafening engine noise at take-off and even the rattling of the furniture and the trembling of the window panes in the adjacent buildings.
The transport of non visual sensations (i.e. noise and silence) is one of the key challenges in realistic painting. The aim here is to visually trigger an emotion that would usually arouse during a noisy event or in the silence afterwards.
„140 dB“ is the title of a series of four large scale (150 x 200 cm) photorealistic paintings. Based on various photos, compositions are created and illuminated that describe emotionally strong situations which act as the structure of the paintings. The idea is that fake is allowed, even desired, as long the result is credible and still passes as a photo. It is the illusion that counts.
This year the series of paintings as well as the process of creation will be presented in a virtual space only.
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/de/exhibition/13253665/140-db
Project 140 dB (i.e. 140 Decibels, the volume of an aero engine in short distance) is strongly connected to Tempelhofer Feld, the former airport Berlin THF, that influenced Neukölln considerably for decades. For in this place the lively background noise, a mixture of music, chatter, wind and the chirping of the field larks, feels like utter silence to the Berliner who still remembers the deafening engine noise at take-off and even the rattling of the furniture and the trembling of the window panes in the adjacent buildings.
The transport of non visual sensations (i.e. noise and silence) is one of the key challenges in realistic painting. The aim here is to visually trigger an emotion that would usually arouse during a noisy event or in the silence afterwards.
„140 dB“ is the title of a series of four large scale (150 x 200 cm) photorealistic paintings. Based on various photos, compositions are created and illuminated that describe emotionally strong situations which act as the structure of the paintings. The idea is that fake is allowed, even desired, as long the result is credible and still passes as a photo. It is the illusion that counts.
This year the series of paintings as well as the process of creation will be presented in a virtual space only.
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/de/exhibition/13253665/140-db
Biography
Iris Ulbricht
Dr. Iris Ulbricht is an engineer and artist based in Rangsdorf and Werder (Havel). She worked in the international turbomachinery industry in different R&D and management positions in Berlin/Brandenburg, Brussels and Switzerland until 10 years ago she initiated a radical career change. She quit her job and started to study arts with a focus on traditional painting techniques and drawing in free academies and with selected artists. Since 2019 she has been teaching and exhibiting her work.