Rödermark, in November 2011. The art- and cultural initiative of the Videor E. Hartig GmbH opens the exhibition "AUSTRALIA" – Northern Territory“  with works of EHa at November 24, 2011 at 6.30 pm.

In 2010 his search took the artist to the destination of the Northern Territory wilderness – in the middle of the Australian summer when the landscape reveals its fully beauty and at the same time its misanthropic face. Heat combined with a humidity that makes the air thick to cut through. It is the original and the unadulterated that Ernst Hartig captures with his medium format camera, and with a level of detail that was only made possible by modern digital photography and which brings the distinctiveness of this Northern Australian wilderness to a visual form.

With a population of only 220,000, the Northern Territory is the least populous of Australia´s states and territories. Its area covers a size approximately the same as Spain, France and Italy combined. In addition to the capital city Darwin with 120,000 inhabitants, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy are the other major towns. The central region has a desert climate with maximum temperatures climbing above 40° C in the summer months. On the other hand the coastal region in the northern end is associated with hot and humid monsoons and strong tropical cyclones that, for instance, nearly destroyed the capital city Darwin in 1897, 1937 and 1974. In the summer months from November to April the temperatures here lie at around 34° C. This is also the period of maximum humidity when strong monsoons rains sometimes make the unsealed roads impassable. However, its abundance of tropical flowers make this season extremely beautiful.

Ernst Hartig (EHa) was born in 1938 in Frankfurt am Main. After training as a photographer he worked as an assistant in the Institute for Psychological and Sociological Market Research in Frankfurt am Main before he founded the company Videor in 1969.

Since 1994 he has worked with digital media, art and photography. His works have been exhibited in many one-man and group exhibitions, among others in Tokyo (Japan), Vitznau (Switzerland) as well as Frankfurt am Main, Rödermark, Fulda, Gießen and Seligenstadt in Germany. He lives and works in Rödermark and on the island of Samos in Greece. His pictures reveal Ernst Hartig as the eternal seeker, always on the lookout for the unknown, especially during his travels around the world. He feels especially drawn to far eastern culture. He has honed his senses with long stays in Japan.

The art book „AUSTRALIA - NORTHERN TERRITORY“ is to be published at the exhibition.

Attendants can visit the exhibition from November 25, 2011 until March 09, 2012 from 09.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 09.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Fridays

Contact:
Videor Art Foundation
Kirstin Trefz-Herd, Management
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 8  ●  63322 Rödermark
Telephone: +49 6074 888 209
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www.videor-art-foundation.com

Opening hours:
Mo–Fr: 9 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Fr: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.