BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents its sixth solo exhibition by Erwin Kneihsl. Kneihsl practices photography in spirit of alchemy. His focus of attention is not directed towards materials and their external forms, but the ‘transmutation’ of the subject of the photograph into an image in the mind’s eye. This corresponds to both the motifs and the methods of Kneihsl’s photography: the decision to exclusively use mechanical cameras, the classical black and white film, and the insistence on personally producing his gelatine silver prints from the negative material. And while the motifs are usually presented in series, it is always his own perceptions that lead him to the particular images. To a certain extent Kneihsl’s photographs are reflections of personal thoughts and emotions, these bound up with an interest in the historical, biographical, and psychological connotations of the motifs repr