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Vechelde

2010 / 2011 THO18
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Remembering through photographic reconstruction – the gas station pictures of Tim Hölscher

These days, they’re only rarely seen in this form: small buildings, a flat porch, a gas pump, entry and exit ramps, neon signs – each one in itself unique. Since the opening of the first gas station in 1927 in Hamburg, such has been the typical characteristics of gas station architecture in the international style. Nowadays every station looks the same: a brand is no longer promoted by the individual architectural style but rather by logos and colors. Tim Hölscher depicts how things used to be in his fascinating photo series on gas stations.

Born in 1981 in Soest in North-Rhine Westphalia, the photographer intensively examined the history of gas station buildings, taking an exciting journey to search for traces of this lost form of architecture: gas stations from the 1950s and 1960s. As architectural symbols, they embodied the wealth regained by the German Economic Miracle, as well as an intoxicating new mobility.

At times, Hölscher would travel more than 1000 kilometers a week searching for his rare findings. Often the stations were used for something other than their original purpose: as auto-mechanic shops or car dealerships, with the original architecture hidden under signs, neon logos, and new additions to the building. Tim Hölscher’s images are more than snapped photographic documentations: the real work, which can take up to 20 hours per image, begins at the computer. Extra signs and additions to the building are digitally removed, as the gas station is singled out and freed from the urban context. Tim Hölscher thus reveals the original vision of the architect in the old buildings, as well as the individuality of the buildings and the special charm that they possessed.

“In my images I walk the thin line between photography and painting,” he said, explaining his technique. Through this technique he reveals truly audacious designs like that of the CALTEX gas station in a piece titled “Hannover I,” whose ambitious roof construction made of pre-stressed concrete seems to flow out over the front drive, sweepingly extending outward as it narrows to a mere 20cm. Through extremely well-composed images, Tim Hölscher’s series documents an exciting time for this type of building, revealing a freed and courageous architecture.

Geraldine Blum
VITA
1981Born in Soest, Germany
2004 - 2010Studies in Photo Design at the College Bielefeld
Abroad e.g. in Albania, Guatemala, Syria, Togo, Sri Lanka and Tanzania
Lives and works in Bielefeld
Exhibitions

Single Exhibitions


2011
Peisazhet e Shqiperise, Single Exhibition, Altes Rathaus, Bielefeld, Germany

Single Exhibition "ntoma" im Bürgerzentrum "Alter Schlachthof", Soest, Germany

Diplomausstellung an der Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
2004
Single Exhibition "Togo Visages" im Bürgerzentrum "Alter Schlachthof" in Soest, Germany





Group Exhibitions


2010Visual Gallery at Photokina, Group Exhibition, Collogne, Germany
2003Group Exhibition "Perfect Faces" im Rathaus Bielefeld, Germany

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