The starting point for Erik Niedling's Formation series is a rediscovered collection of 1920s glass negatives containing photographs of plants. Niedling studied the plates, reproduced them and made new, large-format prints. Are these images positives or negatives, documents or works of art, historical materials or new artistic creations?
"Burial of the White Man is a bildungsroman about the friendship between artist Erik Niedling and writer Ingo Niermann. Two German men in their thirties, they begin collaborating on a series of projects of ever-increasing ambition and scope: a tomb for all humans, a dissident replica of the US army, a German-Mozambican youth and liberation movement, a ritual of living one year as if it's your last, a transformation of the oldest and most troubled German political party, a global fitness cult ... Each failure is answered with an even more outrageous endeavor--culminating in the burial not only of themselves, but of the entire subspecies of the white man."-- Back cover
ÜBER DIESE PUBLIKATION / ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION Die Reihe EIKON – Sonderdruck erscheint in unregelmäßiger Folge mit KünstlerInnen, die in „EIKON – Internationale Zeitschrift für Photographie und Medienkunst“ präsentiert wurden. Sie erhalten hier ein Forum, um Ihre Arbeiten umfangreicher zu zeigen. Erik Niedling wurde erstmals in EIKON Heft # 48/49 mit seiner Arbeit “Forst” präsentiert. Issues of the EIKON Sonderdruck series are published irregularly. In these issues, artists who were presented in „EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Medie Arts“ are given a forum to show their works in a more comprehensive way. Erik Niedling was presented for the first time in EIKON issue # 48/49, 2005 with his series „Forst“.