“Bernhard Fuchs: Autos” in Tribeca

“On bicycle tours I would come across cars just standing there in the countryside. I guess my first reaction was to look out for the owners. Most of the time, I would see no one and thus was left alone with the situation, developing a relationship to those vehicles that I hadn’t expected. From then on I started to regard these abandoned cars in the scenery as if they were actors on a stage and started to collect their wit and tragedy.”

The Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Autos, a solo exhibition of photographs by Bernhard Fuchs. The series Autos is a collection of images of cars parked in parking lots and on roadsides. Their stillness haunts, their solitude mystifies. In the absence of human life, the cars in Fuchs’ lanscapes take on their own pulse, their function moves beyond expected utility Here, in a moment of the “happened upon,” travel freezes in contemplation.