November 17 — December 21, 2023

Opening Thursday November 16, 6—9 pm

Roland Tännler Zürich Adjacencies 2012—2023

Zürich Adjacencies is an exhibition of works Roland Tännler conceived over the last decade. 50 everyday pictures taken within a radius of 11 km while rambling Zürich neighborhoods on everyday rounds. The series of photographs stem from curiosity of the moment and sheer pleasure in random occurences with visual potential. It is a way of tracing and documenting fractions of time where magic happens and unexpected interrelations start playing inverse to the perpetual pulse of the streets — a vision fluctuating between notions of objective concretion and aesthetic abstraction orchestrated by a lyric mind.

»I often take pictures while waiting. Literally waiting for the train, waiting for someone who is late, waiting for my kids; it is within these parenthesis of time that my eyes start to wander and where I take note.«

The digital images, specificly chosen to form pairs, groups or adjacencies within the series, are processed and transferred as digital UV prints on objets trouvés — 50 ply wood boards from old archival cabinets, all measuring exact 31 x 35cm, each bearing individual signs of material use. The cellar find in the studio of the photographer eventually merges with the applied photos to 50 unique objects.

Roland Tännlers exhibition proposal is very much congenial to the D.O.N.U.T. motto and we are thrilled to have him doing donuts at the D.O.N.U.T. as our second resident showcase.