To travel the world in the name of art – this is the mantra for German artist Dieter Nuhr who is back in Italy for another solo show after his great success of his exhibition during the past BIENNALE ARTE at Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana at St. Marco’s Square in Venice.

From May 2nd to May 29th, 2023, the MAXXI – National Museum for the Arts of 21st Century will host Dieter Nuhr’s new exhibition “Surrounded by Distances” curated by Dirk Geuer.

Supported by the Brost Foundation, one of Germany’s most significant art and cultural foundations, over 20 photography-based artworks by Dieter Nuhr with a pronounced pictorial character, painterly modified with digital tools of modern technology, will be on display.

Dieter Nuhr’s art is characterized by a desire to experience and explore the world as a unified habitat and shows the world in a state of transition. Nuhr’s digital and photography-based paintings are inventories of a reality that fade away in people’s minds and become memories. Nuhr who subjects his photographs to a digital-painterly process, adds layers of colors over his photographed objects with the help of a programmed, digital brush to show the disappearance of the real in memory. Only the essence remains of that was originally seen and photographed. This no longer can be described as reality, but as a subjectivized image or memory of it.

Photo ©: Daniel Passafiume (Vernissage), AAP (installation shots)