Darren Almond's 2015 Exhibition Explores Time and Perception Through Photography and Historical References

In 2015, Darren Almond presented an exhibition featuring nighttime landscape photography that employed long exposure techniques, resulting in ghostly silver illumination and blurred features that distort time. The display included Alpine scenes inspired by Carl Blechen's 'Amalfi Sketchbook' from 1828–30, with Blechen's original sketches housed in a separate area. Almond's art delves into the conflict between visual spectacle and conceptual dematerialization, paralleling Blechen's transition from Romanticism to plein air realism. The exhibition highlighted Fullmoon@Spreewald (2014) and presented thirty-seven constellation illustrations critiquing cosmic representation. Blechen's pieces, such as Zwei Grüne Blätter and Landschaft mit Burg, exhibit a strong empirical spirit. Almond's images convey existential doubt, while the drawings propose alternate realities, enriching his inquiry into idealism.