Artists

Lothar Baumgarten

Press release

In the spaces of the GAM Videotheque takes shape a tribute to Lothar Baumgarten, an artist who passed away in 2018, renowned for intertwining aesthetic research with profound anthropological and ecological reflection.

The selection of works on display—particularly photographs—documents his immersive experience in the Yanomami village in Venezuela, where he lived for over a year in the late 1970s. In these shots, the landscape becomes narrative, nature transforms into language, memory, and a visual and symbolic construction.

The images do not simply reproduce what was seen, but open new perspectives, allowing multiple, layered meanings to emerge. As in a famous photograph by the artist, where a bowl of milk with a fragment of green gelatin evokes, transparently, an entire landscape vision, Baumgarten’s works challenge the separation between object and representation, between the visible and the conceived.