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Made over the last four years, Uwe Walther new exhibition is centred around seventeen maps each a location of one of the legendary mountain refuges run by the Swiss Alpine Club. His paintings use the precise language of cartography – the grids and contour lines of each map – as the framework to create soaring, birds-eye views of imaginary mountain landscapes. Rooted in a lifelong engagement with maps and climbing, and shaped by his experience of cartography, Uwe Walther’s work explores the act of map reading as a creative process in itself. As he describes them: “These are not real places, but fictional landscapes derived from precise data.”
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Uwe Walther was born in 1965 in Sonneberg, Germany. Uwe studied under Professor Bernhard Heisig at Art Academy of Leipzig 1986-90. He moved from Leipzig to Switzerland in 1990 on a Government student exchange and has remained there ever since. Solo exhibitions have been held in Switzerland, Germany, London and Singapore. Recent public exhibitions include ‘Kunstfluge' at the Museum Hans Erni, Luzern.
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Uwe Walther: Not To Scale
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