hélène binet: architecture photographs

hélène binet: architecture photographs ‘vardø – b’, 2011 architecture by peter zumthor edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (61 x 50.8 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

hélène binet – selected works gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne september 09 – october 28, 2011

for the last twenty years, swiss artist hélène binet has captured the works of contemporary architects including: david chipperfield, coop himmelblau, daniel libeskind, sauerbruch hutton and peter zumthor. in the language of photography binet reflects her own notion and interpretation of the building, resulting in her work separating itself from pure documentation to a work of art. through her imagery, she lets light and shade take effect, seizes walls and openings, corners and curves, to express through the use of her camera, her personal point of view.

this exhibition at gabrielle ammann // gallery presents a selection of hélène binet’s works from 1999 to 2011: ‘lfone’ (zaha hadid) from 1999, le monastère de sainte-marie de la tourette’ (le corbusier) from 2007, as well as her landscape images entitled ‘formations’. the ‘kolumba 01’ (peter zumthor) a work from 2007, will be on the cover of the upcoming monograph ‘hélène binet: composing space, the photographs of hélène binet’, published by phaidon in a limited edition. on the occasion of this exhibition, the gallery is proud to present, worldwide for the first time, ‘vardø’, june 2011 (steilneset, memorial for the victims of the witch trials in vardø, finnmark) built by swiss architect peter zumthor.

see also designboom’s article ‘architecture of zaha hadid by hélène binet‘.  

‘glasgow’, 2010 architecture by zaha hadid edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (61 x 50.8 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘firminy – a’, 2007 architecture by le corbusier edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (50.8 x 61 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘firminy – b’, 2007 architecture by le corbusier edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (50.8 x 61 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘kolumba 01’, 2007 edition: 5 + 2 ap / digital b/w silver gelatin print (120 x 153 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘lfone – a’ (left) and ‘lfone – b’ (right), 1999 architecture by zaha hadid edition 5 + 2 ap / digital b/w silver gelatin diasec© print on dibond (80 x 102 cm) photos © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘weaving’ osea, great britain, 2006 edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (48 x 48 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne

‘vardø – a’, 2011 architecture by peter zumthor edition 8 + 2 ap / hand printed b/w silver gelatin (61 x 50.8 cm) photo © hélène binet, courtesy gabrielle ammann // gallery, cologne