Pigment Prints from the media performance The_Vegan_Scanning_Cooking_Project

In his second solo exhibition at Galerie Judith Andreae, Achim Mohné shows parallel to the small climate summit 'in Bonn (UNFCCC), works from a series of media performances with scanners and objects.

If Luther’s Reformation was made possible by the then “fast” medium of printing, Edward Snowden with his globally publicized revelations managed to beat digital technologies predominant in his own time with their own weapons. Both “whistleblowers” aimed at the disclosure of systemic injustice. For “Luther and the Avant-Garde”, the analog reconstruction of a digital image structure has been created to form a large-scale mosaic consisting of 672 square floor panels. While the image remains unrecognizable as long as one tries to see it from ground level, it can, from aerial and satellite perspectives, be discerned as the pixelated portrait of Edward Snowden. The 672 “picture elements” – each is enlarged to cover a square shape of 50 x 50 cm, the whole structure measuring 12 x 14 meters – correspond to a digital photographic resolution of no more than 0.000672 megapixels…

Achim Mohné‘s work, which was created especially for this exhibition, is location-specific: it shows a 3D-printed model of the specific location and urban environment of Galerie Falko Alexander, Venloer Str. 24, Cologne. The scale model is based on a unique analogue-digital process in which Mohné, instead of photographing the real space, takes pictures directly in the Google Earth App, using virtual „camera drones”.

Google Earth in another form: A 3D print (23 x 17,5 x 5 cm) generated from 3D Google Earth data, presents the urban environment of the first roof as a three-dimensional sculpture. The landscape relief of the "Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum" was created with data from 2018 and shows the institution 10 years after its inscription.