Roger Humbert | The Language of Light – The exhibition is on view from 28 August to 19 September 2021 at Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie and was curated by Alessa Widmer. Swiss photographer Roger Humbert, born in Basel in 1929, is a pioneer of Concrete Photography and has produced an extensive body of work from the 1950s to the present day. In the exhibition The Language of Light, the wide-ranging oeuvre of Humbert is presented and elaborates the history of the development of Concrete Photography.

This comprehensive look focuses on five groups of works: Photograms, Abstract Colour Photographs, Concrete Photography Digital, Subjective Photography and Spectral Photographs. In our time, digitalization once again challenges photography and Roger Humbert turns to precisely this difficult question. For Humbert, photography is still a "field of perception at the back of the visual space", which he formulates with the above-mentioned light images and clearly demonstrates how the use of elementary photographic together with a subjective creative power can open up new paths in contemporary art. For Roger Humbert, the exploration and research of light has been at the center of his work until today.

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