Art Exhibit: Listening to these walls
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Feb 28, 2010 07:00 PM
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Mar 30, 2010 08:00 PM |
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Christian Waeber is fascinated by the passage of time and the permanence and simple beauty of medieval Churches. Seven years ago, he started a long term project aimed at photographically documenting Swiss Romanesque churches.
Whenever I am in a Romanesque church, I feel a strong sense of historical continuity. The walls around me are probably not very different from what they were when the church was built, 50 generations ago... The attraction of Romanesque churches has something to do with their human proportions; they do not compel admiration by means of their imposing size, as city cathedrals do. Every time I go to Switzerland, I discover new churches, and revisit some of them multiple times. I know that they will probably not change in my lifetime. Therefore, I can explore them without any time pressure. I feel free to listen to what these walls have to tell me.
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1964, Christian Waeber moved to Boston in 1993. He is both a medical researcher and a photographer, with special interests in night and architecture photography. His photographs have been featured in View Camera, Preservation Magazine and Art-Photo-Akt, and exhibited at numerous locales in New England. Christian Waeber is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Exhibit: Monday, March 1 through Wednesday, March 31
Informal artist talk on Saturday, March 13 - 3:00 pm.
